Big White Lies

<body bgcolor="#EEE8CD" text="#A52A2A" link="#FF0000" vlink="#CC00CC" alink="#CC0044" background="yellow_rock.gif"> <center></center> <center> <h1>Big White Lies</h1> </center> <p>From the inception of the United States, that government has attempted to maintain civil relations with the American Indian. While it may be argued that the government bargained in good faith, i.e. really intended to honor the treaties that were made, history records that these treaties were not honored and the Native peoples were displaced from their lands repeatedly as the new country expanded westward.</p> <p>Often the Native peoples were displaced from their lands, i.e. lands that were ceded to them in a treaty with the government, when it became clear that those lands contained some resource which the government wanted. For example, it should be indisputable that the Georgia gold rush of 1838 led directly to the removal of the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears. Gold fever also fueled the Indian wars which included the battle of the Little Big Horn.</p> <p>History also records that many of the leaders to which the United States accord greatness had abominable policies toward the Native peoples. Washington and Lincoln both advocated eradication of the Native population. And the ingracious Andrew Jackson, whose life was saved by a Cherokee warrior at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, advocated outright genocide of the Native populace and approved the removal of the Cherokee to the Indian Territories [Oklahoma].</p> <p>A collection of treaties which were forged between the government of the United States and the Delaware people have come into our possession, and we would post these for your examination. Each treaty will be preceded by a synopsis/commentary on what the treaty promises the Delaware people. History records the results of these promises; actually, each subsequent treaty often revokes the previous promises.</p> <p>This collection of treaties is not intended to create a sense of guilt in the reader; the perpetrators of these lies are long dead. These lies are in the past; it is only hoped that the future will learn from these treaties and prevent further lies from being perpetrated against the Delaware or other Native peoples.</p> <br /> <center><img src="tribar.gif" alt="separator bar" width="440" height="8" /></center> <br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty1.html">1778 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty2.html">1785 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty3.html">1789 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty4.html">1804 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty5.html">July 1805 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty6.html">August 1805 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty8.html">1809 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty7.html">1814 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty9.html">1815 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty10.html">1817 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty11.html">September 1818 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty12.html">October 1818 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty13.html">Aug. 1829 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty14.html">Sept. 1829 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty15.html">October 1832 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty16.html">May 1854 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty17.html">May 1860 Treaty</a><br /> <img align="top" src="featherl.gif" alt="link icon" height="38" width="40" /><a href="treaty19.html">1866 Treaty</a><br /> <br /> <center><img src="tribar.gif" alt="separator bar" width="440" height="8" /></center> <br /> <center><a href="index.html">Return to the Main page</a></center> <br /> </body>