Indians and white settlers had a very different opinion of land and how to use the resources on the land. Whites saw land as a person’s personnel property that they can utilize in any way they wish, and that could be bought and sold. The Indians on the other hand believed the land was the basis of a life that was created and given to them as a gift from the Great Spirit. The land was to be shared by everyone in the Indian race; therefore Indians didn’t understand the concept of buying and selling land. When it came to treaty making Indians felt

Alcohol was another tool used by the white settlers to take the Indian’s land. The Indians had never even tasted alcohol before and became very susceptible to it, many Indians turned into alcoholics. For instance “the once proud Miamians became…a poor, miserable drunken set diminishing every year.” The white settlers, seeing the affect alcohol had on Indians, used this to their advantage. When William Harrison received messages to buy the lands from Indian tribes he would frequently bribe the Indian chiefs with a supply of whiskey. The white settlers had no problem taking advantage of the Indians weakness. It was this lack of moral standards that allowed the white settlers to steal the land from the Indians, even though the Indians were willing to share the land with them.

and eventually lead to the Indian’s demise.

Tecumseh and his warriors joined forces with the British to fight the Colonists. Tecumseh and British General Isaac Brock became friends and had a strong mutual respect for each other; together they defeated the colonist’s fort at Detroit. Tecumseh had a very strict code of conduct for his warriors and was praised for his human treatment of American Captives. While Tecumseh was gone on a recruiting trip in the south his friend General Brock was killed in an attack. Brock’s replacement was

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