Euro-American Colonialism

The nature of colonizers to occupy land during the development of the new world was extensive. In more ways the one, Euro-American explorers bound themselves to claim previously habituated lands. As the thirst for seizing lands grew, greed became a conditioned factor that often neglected moral principles and religious beliefs. By comparing accounts of North America in two books, A Land so Strange and Jacksonland, we can see that Euro-American colonizers often claimed indigenous lands and disregarded morality and their religious beliefs for greed, this is important being indigenous people can no longer sovereign over their own lands. Both A Land So Strange and Jacksonland reflect the arbitrary course of action taken by Euro-Americans to strip
Colonizers thieved the lands as well as the lives of indigenous people ultimately committing Christian and moral sins. For greed the Euro-American’s neglected their actions against the people. For the purpose of territory and power the Euro-American’s extreme ventures cut off aboriginal sovereignty to their own lands. The structural forces indigenous people used to stop incursions and resist ultimately became the similar political economic and military powers to remove their authority. The Euro-American’s did their best to remove these three pillars in order to diminish the aboriginal hold. They knew they could weaken the nation and soon claiming land would become much more easier. Consumed by greed the colonizers avoided moral and religious values to dismantle the nation from its development in
Trickery became a popular method amongst the aboriginals to use when Euro-American’s entered their lands. More and more colonizers were captured by the aboriginals and enslaved. Those who purposely navigated to claim indigenous lands for kings and their lords were captured and converted into spending their life with indigenous nations. Though they were succeeding with trickery during battle their lack of numbers and strategies began to fail. The Creek war proved to be a major set back to aboriginals and their land claims. The creeks used portholes to securely shoot American’s from taking them over. They created walls and blockades to effectively win. This strategy proved to disappoint when American’s began confining the locations and surrounding the armies from all around. They enclosed the Aboriginals and effectively won the war. The strategic methods of the American’s during their invasion within the lands left Creeks efforts to fail finally ending in the treaty of fort Jackson with more land and money taken