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A 6 page overview of the different Native American approaches launched in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in response to white invasion into Indian lands. The author emphasizes the contrast which existed between these three great leaders. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The invasion of Europeans into Native American lands resulted in severe changes for the Native Americans, both cultural
changes and political changes. Prior to contact with the Europeans who invaded their lands, Native American tribes had only loose intertribal alliances. Formed in order to assure survival,
these alliances were far removed from the military alliances they faced in their European foes. Even after the arrival of the Europeans and the obvious need for intertribal military
alliances, the Native Americans formed few such alliances. Indeed, the struggle to maintain political and cultural autonomy among Native American peoples sometimes took slightly different directions. Such was
the case with the careers of Pontiac, Tecumseh and Handsome Lake. While two of these Native Americans leaders openly rebelled against the impending threat of white domination, the third
attempted to incorporate European lifeways into critical aspects of his own peoples culture. North America during colonial times were a seething continent of
discontent both as a result of the bitter interaction which was unfolding between the Native Americans and between the various factions of the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands.
The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in regard to their interaction with the Native Americans werent, after all, the only European invader in
this land. There were also the Dutch, Swedes, French, and the Spanish and all had their share of problems both with the Native Americans and with other Europeans.
Many times, in fact, Native Americans were successful in capitalizing on the problems which existed between the Europeans. More often than not, however, it was the Native Americans who
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