The Indian World of George Washington - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Indian World of George Washington write by Colin Gordon Calloway. This book was released on 2018. The Indian World of George Washington available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Indian World of George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told.
George Washington and Native Americans
George Washington and Native Americans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook George Washington and Native Americans write by Richard Harless. This book was released on 2019-02-19. George Washington and Native Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. George Washington had contact with Native Americans throughout most of his life. His first encounter as a teenager left him with the impression that they were nothing more than an "ignorant people." As a young man he fought both alongside and against Native Americans during the French and Indian War and gained a grudging respect for their fighting abilities. During the American Revolution, Washington made it clear that he welcomed Indian allies as friends but would do his utmost to crush Indian enemies. As president, he sought to implement a program to "civilize" Native Americans by teaching them methods of agriculture and providing the implements of husbandry that would enable them to become proficient farmers--the only way, he believed, Native Americans would survive in a white-dominated society. Yet he discovered that his government could not protect Indian lands as guaranteed in countless treaties, and the hunger for Indian land by white settlers was so rapacious that it could not be controlled by an inadequate federal military establishment. While Washington appeared to admit the failure of the program, this book--a unique and necessary exploration of Washington's experience with and thoughts on Native Americans--contends he deserves credit for his continued efforts to implement a policy based on the just treatment of America's indigenous peoples. Distributed for George Mason University Press
George Washington's War on Native America
George Washington's War on Native America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook George Washington's War on Native America write by Barbara Alice Mann. This book was released on 2005-03-30. George Washington's War on Native America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Revolutionary War is ordinarily presented as a conflict exclusively between colonists and the British, fought along the northern Atlantic seacoast. This important work recounts the tragic events on the forgotten Western front of the American Revolution—a war fought against and ultimately won by Native America. The Natives, primarily the Iroquois League and the Ohio Union, are erroneously presented in history texts as allies (or lackeys) of the British, but Native America was working from its own internally generated agenda: to prevent settlers from invading the Old Northwest. Native America won the war in the West, holding the land west and north of the Allegheny-Ohio River systems. While the British may have awarded these lands to the colonists in the Treaty of Paris, the Native Americans did not concur. Throughout the war, the unwavering goal of the Revolutionary Army, under George Washington, and their associated settler militias was to break the power of the Iroquois League, which had successfully held off invasion for the preceding two centuries, and the newly formed Ohio Union. To destroy the Natives in the way of land seizure, Washington authorized a series of rampages intended to destroy the League and the Union by starvation. Food, livestock, homes, and trees were destroyed, first in the New York breadbaskets, then in the Ohio granaries—spreading famine across Native lands. Uncounted thousands of Natives perished from New York to Pennsylvania to Ohio. This book tells how, in the wake of the massive assaults, the Natives held back the American onslaught.
The Indian Prophecy
The Indian Prophecy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Indian Prophecy write by George Washington Parke Custis. This book was released on 2014-03. The Indian Prophecy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1859 Edition.
US Presidents and the Destruction of the Native American Nations
US Presidents and the Destruction of the Native American Nations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook US Presidents and the Destruction of the Native American Nations write by Michael A. Genovese. This book was released on 2021-10-08. US Presidents and the Destruction of the Native American Nations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how the United States government, through the lens of presidential leadership, has tried to come to grips with the many and complex issues pertaining to relations with Indigenous peoples, who occupied the land long before the Europeans arrived. The historical relationship between the US government and Native American communities reflects many of the core contradictions and difficulties the new nation faced as it tried to establish itself as a legitimate government and fend off rival European powers, including separation of powers, the role of Westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, and the relationship between diplomacy and war in the making of the United States. The authors’ analysis touches on all US presidents from George Washington to Donald Trump, with sections devoted to each president. Ultimately, they consider what historical and contemporary relations between the government and native peoples reveal about who we are and how we operate as a nation.
