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To what extent were the European Colonisers to Blame for the loss of…

- - - - European settlers brought these new diseases with them when they settled, and the illnesses decimated the Native Americans—by some estimates killing as much as 90 percent of their population
    - - National Geographic
- - - - Treaties from: Fort Stanwix, McIntosh and Finney resulted in the Natives giving over New York, Western Pennsylvania and most of what is now Ohio, with no reward or consolation, under the reasoning that as the losers of the recent war they handed over the spoils. Chapter 4 - Page 127
        
        Cozzens is of an interpretation that is the fault of the US army, particularly shown here, highlighting his observations of treaties stripping the Natives of their lands. Focusing on the part where he states - “no reward or consolation, under the reasoning that as the losers of the recent war they handed over the spoils.” It shows how the army where overall negligent to the Natives who where only in defence of their lands; upon losing lands to the army through warfare and the establishment of Forts such as Stanwix, McIntosh and Finney, the foundations were laid for the treaties of New York's revokal from Native territory, as a result, diminishing their heritage in the area as collateral.
    - - the withholding of medicine and food from reaching the settlements
      - mudering their horses to stop them hunting
      - “Withholding rations became a potent weapon in the agents arsenal"
        
        referencing how the Military where withholding the supplies from the natives, eventually leading do dwindling their numbers
- - - - Creation of the Department of the Interiors Indian Bureau
        
        these agencies attempted to map, develop and distribute an encompassing public domain whilst limiting Native American use of that domain in order for the Federal Government to seize control
        
        Aimed in spreading Federalism across the West
        
        "Whilst the Federal Government shaped the west ... the west itself served as the Kindergarten of the American state. In governing and developing the west, the state itself grew in power and influence" - Richard White
        
        Argues that the loss of Land was a key factor in the loss of Native Culture, Through the foundation of the Indians Bureau, formed by the Federal Government
        
        was founded in 1824
        
        Successor to the committee of Indian Affairs from 1775 by Congress