Essay - U. S. Immigrant and Ethnic History Compare the Land-allotment Strategy...

U. S. Immigrant and Ethnic History

Compare the Land-Allotment Strategy used with the Choctaw's with the Treaty ***** that was applied to ***** Cherokee. What are the key differences between both approaches to Indian lands? Do they share any similarities? What were the outcomes of each strategy

Land allotment ***** significant when it came to the *****s and what the settlers would offer to *****m. The Choctaws were given a l***** *****llotment strategy, while the Cherokee Indians were offered a tre*****ty strategy. Both of these strategies had both pros and cons, and therefore both must be addressed here, to see where their similarities and differences lie, and to examine the outcomes of ***** ***** ***** strategies. It is also important ***** understand some of the interaction that the settlers had with ***** Indians as well.

***** French ***** voyageurs, m*****sionaries, and trappers who ***** great respect for Indian culture for the most part and did not try too hard to change the Indians over ***** ***** French way ***** thinking. They did convert some Indians to Christianity, but that w***** not their primary goal. The main goal of the French settlers ********** simply colonization. They intermarried with the Indians ***** thus expanded ***** population faster than *****y could have if they had only kept to themselves. This intermarriage helped to build good relations with the Indians and this ***** have partially accounted for the good settlement experiences that ***** ***** people ***** (VandeCreek, 2000).

The British colonists were not as friendly with ***** Indians as the French, and spent most ***** *****ir time on expansion ***** exploration activities. Colonization was a large goal with the ***** as well as the French, and they ***** more likely ***** use force against the ***** to gain land than to try to come to some agreement. To them, the Indians were savages that needed to be driven out. Many explorers ***** interested in gold and precious metals ***** the new world, but ***** British were hungry for land and eventually took ***** many of the areas they had previously given to the Indians as preserves. The British ***** also intent on c*****verting people ***** their religion, since they left Engl***** to escape the persecution of what ********** felt was the 'wrong' religion. As can be *****n, the French and the ***** had very different dealings ***** the Indians that *****y encountered, ***** this also affected the ***** ***** the Indians responded ***** settlers overall in the future.

Eventually, however, the Indians found themselves pushed out of much of the land that they had previously enjoyed. The land allotment ***** was utilized with the Choctaws was designed to give them a specific amount of land, but there ***** little ***** no negotiation regarding what the Choctaws would get and whether they could ***** more land, or ***** there were other things that they ***** give in *****der to acquire ***** property or other agreements with the *****. In other words, the *****dians were *****ld