Fighting_A_Losing_Battle

Fighting A Losing Battle Fighting A Losing Battle Throughout history we have seen many examples of the deceptions and trickery whites have used for their own personal gain. Oblivious to recognizing the Indians as equal, most whites have put the Indians through endless suffering, despite their supposed “brotherhood.” It seems no matter what the Indians did, whether they stood neutral, or got involved in battle, they were sure to lose. The beginning of a new culture endangered another, the Indians. Throughout history we have seen many examples of the deceptions and trickery whites have used for their own personal gain. Oblivious to recognizing the Indians as equal, most whites have put the Indians through endless suffering, despite their supposed “brotherhood.” The whites beguiled the Choctaws, among many other Indian nations. In the 1670’s, at a time of extensive Indian slave, trade Charleston merchants “encouraged Yamasees, Creeks, Cherokees, and Chickasaws to wage war on Indian troops allied to rival colonial powers and to sell captives into slavery” (Faragher 68). At a time like this, it is not characteristic of enemies to be merciful to their foe. For that indians, whites, indian, mandans, occum, keokuk, english, americans, wheelock, war, tribes, time, smallpox, side, seen, same, own, out, good, fought, choctaws, british, among, american, after, advantage, actually, young, worked, turned, trickery, tribe, treated, trade, took, throughout, through, supposed, support, suffering, suffered, strong, squanto, seems, recognizing, reason, put, protected, powers