Question

How did the western Indians view U.S dealings with the Indians in the decade after the end of the American Revolution?

n%20hollis%20-%20vessdye%2010%20 %20COMITIISSI tioners a message I WENCI VICE FOR he United States and then, tongue in cheek, offered a formula for peace. Delegates From all the tribes, except for Brant and the Iroquois, affixed their marks to the message. The American commissioners promptly packed their bags and left. "The Indians have refused to make peace," they reported to the secretary of war. Having tried and failed to reach an agreement with the tribes, the government now turned to General Wayne's army to resolve the issue.4 QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION 1. How did the western Indians view U.S. dealings with the Indians in the decade after the end of the American Revolution? 2. What was the policy of the Northwest Indian confederacy with regard to land sales? 3. What, from the Indians' perspective, were the key causes of conflict? WESTERN INDIANS Message to the Commissioners of the United States (1793) We have received your speech dated the 31st last month, and it has been interpreted to all the Sierent nations. We have been long in sending an answer, because of the great importance the subject. But we now answer it fully, having on it all the consideration in our power. eachers, You tell us that after you had made peace with the king, our Father, about ten years ago, "it re- mained to make peace between the United St- and the Indian Nations who had taken part the king for this purpose Commissioners w appointed, who sent messages to all those natio inviting them to come and make peace and af reciting the periods at which you say treaties we held at Fort Stanwix, Fort McIntosh, and Miam all which treaties, according to your own acknow edgement, were for the sole purpose of makir peace; you then say, "Brothers, the Commission ers who conducted these treaties in behalf of th United States, sent the papers containing ther to the general council of the States, who, suppos ing them satisfactory to the nations treated with proceeded to dispose of the lands thereby ceded.” "Journal of a Treaty held in 1793, with the Indian the northwest of the Ohio by Commissioners of the States," Collections of the Massachusetts Historical series 3. vol. (1836). 163-67.

Answer 1

The Indians viewed the U.S. dealings with the western Indians as an insult.The western Indians were married into the tribes. Many white men had wives from the local tribe.The Message to the Commissioners of the United States in 1793.The message was basically about the boundary line between Ohio, and whether or not the Indians that called that territory "home" stay there for a hefty chunk of money, or be removed......BY FORCE.Treaty of Fort Stanwix and Fort McIntosh were up for discussion, but that's what that Indians thoughts.