Native American Vs Early Settlers Essay

Imagine you an Native American working around your house just peacefully doing what you have to do. Then you see some settlers walking on your land with a gun ordering you out of your land. If you were that Native American what would you do? Native Americans once had all their land and were living peacefully then they signed a piece of paper and lost it all and got moved away. Then settlers and miners kept on taking and taking and taking their land away from them breaking the paper the Natives signed. This conflict could have been avoided if the Americans communicated better and treated the Native Americans Better. This conflict occurred because of the concept of superiority, land ownership, and gathering food.

Concept of superiority was a big
Land is important to the Native Americans because they needed their good land to survive and thrive so it was a big problem when the early settlers and government took it away. “Whites had always justified evicting indians from their lands by explaining that there was plenty of land to the west where the displaced tribes could settle.”(McNeill, Pendergast, Pendergast, Slovey 53 ). Since the Yakima war had been started the first battle the Native Americans had with the English was in Toppenish Creek on October 6, 1855. The war went through the Cascades to the puyallup and white river valleys in the january of 1856. Their was another attack on January 26, 1856 when the Nisqually Indians attacked the blockhouse in seattle. “There were other minor skirmishes around Puget Sound, there were no other major battles.”(Clark, Dustin, and Lambert 212). During March 1856, there was an attack on the Cascades the goal with the attack was to gain control of the columbia gorge so they could have isolated eastern Washington. Lastly I will talk about gathering food the last of the three most important reasons for the