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American Studies 100 Monday, March 15th, 1999 Announcements: Lecture notes:
Brutality and Conflict
~ Instances of violence and cruelty occurred from both Native Americans and Europeans ~ Native violence - Cannibalism ~> religious ~> source of protein (central america) - Slavery - Torture
- Taking by force and violence instead of negotiating - Kill for what they wanted - Outside of official action ~ taking law into their own hands ~ Violence was planned and
organized, untrained to possible organization
~ Material and texture
cultural record
Stages
- "sweet sacrifice" 500 Natives and 2 Englishmen killed - Pequot resisted the settlement of Connecticut - Scorched earth policy - "600 heathen souls to hell"
- Overcome in a battle in 1812 - Opened up the west to Europeans - 20 soldiers for every Native corpse taking war trophies ~> filleted Tecumseh's body so every soldier could have a war trophy
~ Some of the most brutal fighting ~ Natives to Oklahoma ~ 1813 - 14 Alabama opens up the Southwest ~ 1837 - 40 Cherokee's go to Supreme Court ~ 1841 Records later reveal bribery, forgery, etc. ~ Jackson - Removal good for both America and the Natives - Get them away from America to have their own freedom - Prolong existence - progress = good - Yeomen ideology compared to Natives - Children of the forest ~> protected
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