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Cultural Difference Essay
By: Dakota B
I the mid 1800’s, settlers from the United States began to move into Oregon territory. Upon arriving, they met members of many different Native American tribes. There were many cultural differences between the settlers and the Native Americans. The cultural differences led to many misunderstandings and hostilities. Some of the differences were religious; some had to do with the concept of wealth and land ownership. If both sides tried to understand the others view point better, things would have gone better for both sides.
One of the major differences between settlers and Native Americans is that Native Americans did not completely understand the concept of land ownership. The Native Americans felt like the land could not belong to any one. They felt the earth was for everyone to use, and that everyone should respect every ones territory. When the Government wanted some land they would set a price and offer it to the tribes. If the tribe accepted, the government expected the tribe to leave, but tribe leaders did not understand that this meant they could not come back. The tribes would have never agreed to completely abandon the land because the land held sacred burial and hunting grounds. When the tribes did return the settlers viewed this as an act of war, and many people on both sides died because of it.
In many ways the U.S government took advantage of the fact that the Native Americans did not understand the treaties completely. For example, the treaty would read, “We get this land and we will pay you X amount of dollars”. After that, they would kick them off the land and not pay them for many years, if at all. That also started many little wars between the Native Americans and the Settlers. Another communication problem was that the chiefs often thought they were only agreeing to discuss the treaty with their tribe. They did not realize they where committing to it by signing. Negotiations and treaties where done in the trade language of Chinook. Chinook does not have very many words, which made it hard to communicate properly.
Religious differences between the Native Americans and settlers were signifcant. The wars that happened killed many on both sides. That is when the U.S decided to make the reservations and combined a lot of the tribes together. Today they still live on reservations but they have more space to live on. Another was the Native American had a very different view of wealth than the settlers did. The last big thing was religion differences. Let us all take a look at this in depth.

Back in the time when Indians and settlers did not get along very much was because of many things but, one them was the settlers where steeling land in a way that the Natives Americans didn’t know it. By that I mean

Today we use us currency but back in the 1800’s it was different for both natives and settlers. The Native Americans view on wealth it was the more possessions you had the richer you where. For settlers it was like it is for us today the more money you had the better you are in life. We can see the different for us we as U.S. citizens feel that is you have a lot of money then you are famous. That is completely different for the Indians they had to earn the respect and had to have more things to be up higher in the tribe. If you had nothing then and now you are and where poor and nobody cared about you in any way shape or form. With the Indians no matter what everyone in the tribe still cared about you even if you had nothing. The settlers only cared about them self and no one else. The Indians really where loving, and happy with each other at all times.