Analyze Indigenous resistance movements from the colonial period to the post-Revolutionary War period.
- European colonizers in the Americas, on the whole, treated Indigenous people with cruelty. The Indigenous people were never able to fight back.
- European colonizers in the Americas, on the whole, treated Indigenous people with kindness. Still, Indigenous people fought them. Examples of this include the Pueblo Rebellion and the fight of the Iroquois Confederacy against the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
-European colonizers in the Americas, on the whole, treated Indigenous people with cruelty. These practices led Indigenous people to fight back. Examples of this include the Pueblo Rebellion and the fight of the Iroquois Confederacy against the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
- European colonizers in the Americas, on the whole, treated Indigenous people with cruelty. Mainly, Indigenous people did not fight back. The Pueblo Rebellion was the exception
- European colonizers in the Americas, for the most part, treated Indigenous people with cruelty, which often led to resistance movements. The Pueblo Rebellion of 1680, for example, was a major indigenous uprising against Spanish colonial rule in present-day New Mexico. The Pueblo people, fed up with the harsh treatment and forced conversion efforts by the Spanish, successfully drove them out of their territory for several years. Similarly, during the Revolutionary War, the Iroquois Confederacy, largely mistreated by both the British and American colonizers, chose to align with the British in hopes of maintaining their own sovereignty and autonomy.
These movements demonstrate that Indigenous peoples were not passive victims of colonization, but instead actively resisted and fought back against the oppressive forces that sought to control their lands, resources, and ways of life. These acts of resistance were often rooted in a desire to protect their cultural heritage, traditional territories, and autonomy from colonial encroachment. The legacies of these resistance movements continue to inspire indigenous activism and advocacy for justice and self-determination in the modern era.