Question

Picture yourself as an early American leader. How would you have addressed the conflict between Americans’ desire to settle new lands and Native peoples’ historical claim to them?

Answer 1

Personally, I could never see myself as a leader, but if I were to be one during this time I would first understand both sides. The U.S government did the wrong thing when it came to this because they basically forced the Natives to leave their homelands. Like uhhhh, where’s the brain?? And to top it off, you have stinky men taking away most of the women and girls just to do the most awful things to them. I would talk to the Natives and say that we would have one side of the land while they had their half. I know it probably wouldn’t have been completely easy for I’m pretty sure the Natives wouldn’t see easily trust Americans. To be honest, no one was innocent during this time, but we know that this land was founded by Natives and I am not going to live to tell my children the whole “Christopher Columbus” thing. I hope my version of this idea helped lol