Native Americans Pontiac, Red Jacket Essay - 1175 Words

We are going to take a look at Three Native Americans Pontiac, Red Jacket, and Tecumseh to see what the relation are with the white men. We are going to see how they gave to the white men and how the white men took from the Indians. Pontiac was an Ottawa Indian; Ottawa derives from the Algonquian atawewin, meaning â€Å"commerce† or â€Å"to trade†. There’s Indians were one of the first to deal with the white men and were told many times to stay away but relied on trades and other things from the white men. Pontiac was allies with the French with trade and other things until about 1762 when the British defeated the French at Fort Detroit. â€Å"Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Commander in chief of British forces in North America, turned command of Detroit†¦show more content†¦The Indians were being taken over by the white men and didn’t want to give up all they had so just like today we fight about it. There were a lot of religious beliefs tossed aroun d. â€Å"Quite simply, the notion white the ways of white Christians may be fine for them; they are not necessarily equally for non-white indigenous peoples who have their own religious beliefs†. The Tecumseh believes they all belong to one family, that they are all children of a Great Spirit. They all work together on the same path share the same pipe at the fire. I think they also believed they would become friend with the white men but again the white men sucks them dry of anything and everything they can. â€Å"Brothers we all belong to one family; we are all children of the Great Spirit; we walk in the same path; slake our thirst at the same spring; and now affairs of the greatest concern lead us to smoke the pipe around the same council fire! I think in this part of the speech they were telling how they were befriending the white men. â€Å"Brothers, -We are friends; we must assist each other to bear our burdens. The blood of many of our fathers and brothers has run l ike water on the ground, to satisfy the avarice of the white men. We, ourselves, are threatened with a great evil; nothing will pacify them but the destruction of all the red men.† This part of the speech show how they need to come together and not let anymore blood go on the ground to satisfy the white men.