For decades, the Native Indians have been struggling to maintain their cultural identity and fight for their survival. The Indian traditions and way of life was not favored in the United States and was to be demolished. Despite the help that the Indians had initially provided to the English, they turned there backs on them and little remember the times when the Indians had provided them food and safety and formed an alliance with them. In the eyes of the United States, they were uneducated, untrustworthy people who were damaging the American populations and needed to be obliterated. Throughout the years we see how the Indians and United States progress and take on different methods in their military strategies. The Indians struggled to prove that they were worthy people and had a right to remain on there own land following their own cultures and traditions. The Indians had proven to the world that they are here to stay and they will fight to maintain there traditional knowledge, culture, and religion.
It started in the summer of 1691 with the Wompanoag Indians and the English pilgrims. Massosoit, the leader of the Wompanaog tribe, sat down with a group of English colonists to negotiate a treaty. The treaty had stated if the English were to ever be attacked the Indians would step in and protect them, and if the Indians were ever in danger the English would do the same. Both people were now an alliance and agreed to share everything. Day by day the Indians and Pilgrims grew more fond of each other and learned to be in good terms with one another. It was due to their personal respect for each other that they almost always got along. The English had become to be more like the Indians in a way and the Pilgrims had also came to be like the Indians. The Indians started to behave in more American ways and dress and eat American while the pilgrims learned Indian way of life and adapted new ways of cooking. The english show their appreciation to the Native Indians by inviting them to what is now considered the first ever American thanksgiving. The Indians join them and demonstrate Indian culture with their singing, dancing, and playing games. The system of trade between had also greatly flourished. The Indians would provide beaver head, which became fashionable accessories in London while the import of steel from the English greatly sped up the manufacturing process of the Wompanaog. It wasn't until half a century later when a brutal war exploded between a confederation of Native Indians and English colonists. The demand for European civilization was arising and the Indians were on the brink of extermination.
The increasing demand for English colonies in Plymouth and all across New England was growing dramatically. The English immigrants wanted to establish new towns, create farms, and to expand land. Thee English are becoming more aggressive and no longer need Massoits help in the trading system, forcing him into selling his land. We see how the English are now turning on the Indians and going against the treaty they had made long ago. English soldiers rode into the Indian villages killing hundreds of people resulting in the Pequot War. This war establishes the potential brutality of the English and the obliteration of Indian future. The English are realizing they are much more stronger than the Indians and become independent. They take control of the Indians and force them into Christianity. They promised the Indians if they would follow English ways they would be safe and could live among them peacefully. Ofcourse, there always had to be a hero who fought against the rules and that is what most Indian leaders did. They fought to save their traditional cultures and religion.
What Indians always had was hope. Hope to save their identity as Indians and hope to be free. Unfortunately to the Indians, the English kept taking over their land. The English had a method of legally taking Indian land away. They would find the
