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Native American Resistance Movement

The purpose of this research is to examine the Native American resistance movement centered in the Great Lakes region and known as the Black Hawk War. The approach will be to set forth the historical background and context in which the confrontation developed between the Native American group led by the Sac (Sauk) Chief Black Hawk in Illinois on the one side and the United States government on the other. The important events will be noted, leading to an evaluation of the decisive issues producing the outcome. The consequences for both the Native Americans and for the long-term relationship between the American government and the Native American population as a whole will be considered as well.

From the time the Europeans arrived in the new World, the colonists sought to find some way to accommodate the societies already established here. The Native Americans had a thriving civil society and one much larger than the early European settlements, making accommodation and conciliation a necessity for the security of the settlers. What was needed was a social and governmental organization which could dispose of problems in an orderly manner. The settlers thus tried to institute the sort of colonial, then nation-state, government apparatus they had known in Europe.

The Europeans found the Native Americans to be a problem for any structured, established governmental forms, forms which challenged the tribal structure the Native Americans had developed for themselves. The French found tribal rivalries especially difficult to handle, and the French method of colonization included military forces, Jesuits, missionaries, and traders, all with their own rivalries and competing forces in New France. The French controlled a territory covering virtually the entire length of the Mississippi River, from Louisiana to present-day Detroit. Detroit was founded by Antoine Cadillac in 1701, while New Orleans was a port founded in 1718, openi...

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