Date of Award

Fall 2011

Project Type

Thesis

Program or Major

History

Degree Name

Master of Arts

First Advisor

Cynthia Van Zandt

Abstract

The following thesis investigates the sources of Native American disappointment with white morality from the mid-eighteenth century into the early nineteenth century. Countless studies have focused on violence and resistance in the American backcountry throughout the late colonial period as well as the native revitalization movements that often fueled that resistance.

This study focuses on a group of people who were constantly in contact with examples of white morality. After witnessing the examples of white missionaries, Native Americans were repeatedly perplexed by white settlers who did not adhere to the principles of their religion. This disappointment continued in the Republican period. The transgressions of their white neighbors led many Native Americans to believe that they were a people that could not be held to their word and that those who trusted in them walked a path that would lead them to destruction.

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