Daneil Richter looks East from indian point

Cougar Face

  The Pre-Western and colonial Indian conflicts do not get as much as the scrutiny and interest as the Plaines Indian wars but I have always found these first encounters between European and aborigine in North America as being more important. The first contacts shaped the destinies and future developments between these two peoples and is often hurriedly skipped in history textbooks and classrooms. Daniel Richter is an author who writes about these conflicts in colonial America between the English and Indians in a book called "Facing East From Indian Country" and Richter writes about how Indians were able to cope with these English colonials and transatlantic ocean jumpers by reinventing themselves until 1776 and the creation of a new nation that saw American Indians as obstacles that needed to be cleared like the trees. This development and sudden change brought a more profound impact and drastic change that Eastern Indians  were to able to adapt as the new American settlers were not like the early British wave.

Richter wants the reader to realize the  British were always more careful not to incite the Natives as they realized the powerful weapon and ally they cold provide the French to their feeling coastal settlements. Native and Euro-American world were able to coexist despite the few wars and displacement in the Carolina's and Virginia that the British invaders committed but it was still a small scale displacement and didn't really affect these migratory tribes as much. It was not nail the revolutionaries and creators f the constitution took full control of Areas West of the Applachania mountains and the Ohio valley did Eastern tribal aborigine presence become threatened and eventually displaces West of the Mississippi. Mr Richter explores the two  worlds of pre-America  and how these two peoples lived side by side trading and depending on one another. The major shift of materialism and objects that only cold be acquired through European middlemen and the diseases these contacts made on the Native Americans is much of the subject of this book. The concept of slavery and a White conscious in early America is explained as another reason the new republic was so eager to separate the Indian and ensure there was no place for the Natives in a new country. The alignment of race . In 1763 with Pontiac's rebellion and the Paxton boys massacre of Christian Indians in Pennsylvania lead to a renewed identity conflict stage and early version of ethnic cleansing in areas following the sudden departure and defeat of the French in North America. The French and German immigrants would soon join the massive wave if Scotch-Irish into this new white identity that would signify a shift into a new demand of separation at all costs by the government capitulating into the demands of a political and racial conscious land owning class. This book developed the idea correctly that the founding fathers basically wanted the Indians and their lifestyle to disappear as much as the French and British empires eventually would so the settlers would face no rivals and not have to worry about any need of accommodation to those with other beliefs or systems of rule and law.