HSTR 302A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gnadenhutten Massacre, Lenape, Appalachian Mountains
13 Oct 2018
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Rev = critical turning point for indigenous people: beginning: approx. 200,000 living east of the mississippi, around 85 different nations. Led to forced ethnic cleansing, resettlement, loss of culture. Individuals renamed and reassigned to roles that needed to be filled: no sense that to be iroquois you needed some blood connection/biological identity, settlers see this as brutal murders, kidnapping, and enslavement, not legitimate/just war. Indigenous warfare often had lower casualty numbers: saw settler warfare (indiscriminate in its killing, much more genocidal) as illegitimate. Ne(cid:449) (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:374)sus a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g settle(cid:396)s defe(cid:374)ds a (cid:396)a(cid:272)ialized (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e agai(cid:374)st (cid:862)i(cid:374)dia(cid:374)s(cid:863) (cid:449)(cid:396)it la(cid:396)ge. Early 18th century world had to an extent been a world of accommodation (middle ground culture) Indigenous people controlled more territory, had higher numbers: warfare, as such, had a lot more intent toward alliances with different nations, shifts over the century, grows more racialized/extreme during the revolution.
