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- Then in 1801 when Thomas Jefferson became president he pursued an Indian policy with two main goals. First, he wanted to establish treaties to bind the Indian nation and the United States to peace. Second, Jefferson pursued efforts to gradually "civilize" the Indians. In his fist annual address to Congress, Thomas Jefferson introduced his program.
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The Shawnee chief Black Hoof embraced the "civilization program," and he and many Shawnee settled within the state of Ohio and lived as farmers, while the Shawnee leader Tecumseh took a different course and led the formation of a Confederation of Native Nations and a large scale resistance movement against the United States government in the ...
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Mar 2, 2016 · By 1806, Thomas Jefferson, convinced that his "civilization program" was working addressed Congress with the news that more and more Indians were placing "all their interests under the patronage of the United States".
Jan 6, 2022 · After the American Revolution, the Washington administration embraced a program to “civilize” native peoples, transforming Indians from tribal peoples into individuals who could be easily assimilated into American society.
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As he reviewed the reports of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Thomas Jefferson read of encounters with the Oceti Sakowin, Mandan, Shoshone, Nez Perce, and various other Native American communities. Although these Indigenous Nations were relatively new to Jefferson, Native Americans were not, as his personal encounters with Indigenous people began d...
When Jefferson spoke in terms of the "civilization" of Native American people, he was borrowing from Enlightenment philosophy. The "Enlightenment" is the term used by both historians and contemporaries to describe the sweeping intellectual changes of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The great scientific revolution of the seventeenth c...
In his retirement years, Jefferson recalled the Indigenous people he had encountered as a boy in Virginia, noting especially the Cherokee warrior, Ostenaco (ᎤᏍᏔᎾᏆ, identified as Outassete by Jefferson). But such events would have already been fairly rare in the Virginia of Jefferson's boyhood. By the time of his birth in 1743, the Indigenous presen...
Sep 18, 2006 · Civilization and Assimilation. "I consider the business of hunting as already become insufficient to furnish clothing and subsistence to the Indians. The promotion of agriculture, therefore, and household manufacture, are essential in their preservations, and I am disposed to aid and encourage it liberally.
Before and during his presidency, Jefferson discussed the need for respect, brotherhood, and trade with the Native Americans, and he initially believed that forcing them to adopt European-style agriculture and modes of living would allow them to quickly "progress" from "savagery" to "civilization". [2]
Aug 4, 2023 · Most scholars have noted how, despite Jefferson’s positing them as inferior because of their cultural traits, they fit into his vision of an ideal republic through the program of “civilization,” aiming to transform them into an image of citizens to fulfill the cultural standards of White Americans.
There are even reasons to think a civilization existed over 300 million years ago. We have over 9 books on Ancient Civilizations
