How Did The Continental Congress Deal With Indians?

dealing with Indians (Jaimes, p141). The fledgling government understood that changing the worlds perception was paramount to the survival both politically and economically of the United States (Jaimes, p141). What the Continental Congress hoped to gain from the Natives was legitimacy as a nation. If the United States entered into treaties with these nations in the same fashion as other countries it would in turn signal to the world that the United States was recognized on some level as a nation. The tribes had been given national integrity and legitimacy by other European nations through treaty agreements and if these sovereign Native nations would then enter into treaties with the United States it would in turn add legitimacy to the new government and as such would demand that other nations assume a comparable recognition towards the new nation (Jaimes, p141). It is however surprising, when you know and understand the treatment of the Native Americans by the government of the United States, to recognize that both the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States contain clauses that recognize Indian peoples as foreign powers and as such the dealing of these nations must adhere to policies put forth in both (Jaimes, p141). Following these influential documents, with yet another powerful
How do you explain that interpreters misrepresented terms, that the person who signed the treaty did not have the authority to do so, or that the verbal promises that were made were not what was written (“Treaties of the Past”, n.d)? It was also difficult to explain that the politicians had altered the treaty after it was signed, and many realized to late that coercion had played a role in their signing a treaty (“Treaties of the Past”,