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Pontiac and Tecumseh : an evaluation of early pan-Indian confederacies
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Author
Leahy
,
Todd
Title
Pontiac
and
Tecumseh
: an
evaluation
of
early
pan-Indian
confederacies
Degree Program
History
Abstract
When
Europeans
first
set
foot
on
American
soil
, the
Indian
inhabitants
of the
New
World
welcomed
them.
It
was as
individual
nations
that these
Indian
people
greeted
the
newcomers
.
Relationships
that
developed
between
the
Indians
and the
Europeans
were
doomed
from the
start
, for
various
reasons
,
which
included
Europeans
viewing
the
separate
Indian
nations
as a
whole
. But,
Indians
did
not
see
themselves
as a
cohesive
group
. These
competing
views
of
Indian
society
caused
conflicts
between
Whites
and
Indians
. As
time
passed
, the
colonial
powers
considered
Indians
as
being
part
of
one
"
race
" for
political
expediency
. For the
Indians
, the
colonists
'
racial
view
placed
undue
pressure
and
detrimental
stresses
on their
culture
,
including
the
loss
of
lands
and
conflict
between
distinct
life
ways
.
When
those
pressures
became
too
great
,
Indian
people
chose
to
reevaluate
their
method
for
dealing
with the
Whites
.
During
this
reevaluation
, a
new
resistance
strategy
,
often
using
traditional
beliefs
,
developed
. In the
cases
of
Pontiac
and
Tecumseh
, the
new
strategy
they
adopted
was
pan-Indianism
.
Ironically
, this
unification
of
separate
tribes
was
similar
to the
way
in
which
Europeans
initially
viewed
the
Indians
.
Pan-Indianism
was not
new
when
Pontiac
, in
1763
, or
Tecumseh
, in
1805
,
developed
their
confederacies
.
However
, there were
limited
examples
of the
phenomenon
in the then
short
history
of
Indian-White
relations
.
80th
Pontiac's
and
Tecumseh's
movements
were
part
of a
larger
Indian
struggle
for
independence
from
European
ways
of
life
,
which
were
being
thrust
upon
Indian
people
.
Pan-Indianism
stressed
cultural
similarities
and
united
diverse
groups
of
Indian
people
. The
pan-Indian
response
was a
survival
strategy
.
Through
pan-Indianism
both
Pontiac
and
Tecumseh
sought
to
hold
on to the
common
traditional
ways
of the
Indian
people
involved
in their
movements
.
Pontiac
united
the
people
in the
area
of
Fort
Detroit
immediately
following
the
Seven
Years
War
. The
result
of
Pontiac's
action
at
Fort
Detroit
was a
general
Indian
uprising
across
the
frontier
,
which
sought
to
restore
French
hegemony
in the
area
.
Tecumseh
was
able
to
unite
more
people
than
Pontiac
. In an
effort
to
establish
a
permanent
Indian/White
boundary
,
Tecumseh
chose
to
ally
his
confederacy
with the
British
against
the
Americans
in the
War
of
1812
.
Though
both
leaders
failed
in their
military
attempts
to
stop
White
expansion
,
both
successfully
united
,
no
matter
how
temporarily
,
people
who
traditionally
thought
of
themselves
in
tribal
terms
.
Though
neither
leader
was
able
to
stop
the
advance
of the
Whites
,
both
were in the
vanguard
of
pan-Indian
survival
strategies
that
gave
the
Indian
tribes
involved
a
sense
of
hope
. The
pan-Indian
ways
, at
least
for a
short
while
,
proved
reliable
and
allowed
the
Indian
people
involved
a
short
period
of
independence
.
Date Original
2000
Publisher
Fort Hays State University
Relation
Digital reproduction of the Fort Hays State University Theses Collection.
Type
Text
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
LeahyTodd_2000_web.pdf
Source
LD2652 .T5 H5 L42 2000
Language
eng
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