O Pioneer: Eyewitness Accounts Of American Settlers, Pioneers, And Explorers.

“Early American frontier history told from the perspective of those who lived it…”Pioneer is a collection of rare eyewitness accounts and narratives written from the colonial period to early nineteenth century that reveal the difficulties, misunderstandings, and confusion of frontier expansion and settlement. Accounts of pioneers, explorers, settlers, and others provides varied perspectives on how the wilderness was settled, and thereby lends insights into the causes of troubles on the frontiers and of the relations that existed between Indian tribes and early settlers.Multiple viewpoints on the conflict are provided in the form of newspaper accounts, eyewitness accounts, statements of the Council of Six Nations, journals of those involved in treaties, observations of individuals, records of discussions of treaties, and letters that debated the inherent rights of sovereignty for Native Americans.“To do justice to our faith and honor, by treating the Indians according to the real spirit of our alliance with them, to do justice to them in their lands; to give up that idle, useless claim of dominion over them, are points absolutely necessary to be adopted into our politics; unless we have seriously taken the resolution to force our way by war. Until these points are adopted, we shall never have peace. And it deserves mature deliberation how we engage to settle America by war.”