How Long Did the Seven Years’ War Last in Indian Country?

The article starts with how the French and British were fighting globally, and how the French were defeated and a new era of peace begun. Only to discover that the Native Americans had no intension of peace because of how the British disrespected their customs and traditions that the French did not. In the article it talks about how the chief of the Chippewa’s conversation with an English trader mentions that they might have conquered the French, but they have not conquered the Native’s and the British will not take our lands that were given to them by way of inheritance. The natives believed that through gifts you could get respect and develop a relationship. Well the British did not see fit to give gifts or even think that the natives were on the same level as them. In the book Major General Jeffery Amherst saw this as “demeaning to the British, forcing them to pay tribute to people whom he considered inferior.” Although his advisors to the Indian affairs warned him that this would be an insult in the eyes of the Natives he still did not back down.  Amherst could not have predicted what was to become because he vastly underestimated the Native’s ability in warfare. This resulted in about thirteen British garrisons defeated by an “inferior force.” We see this time and time again with the struggle of an oppressed nation or people rising to the occasion to victory.  The result of this war brought Amherst back to England disgraced, and begun negotiations and gift exchanges through the new leadership of Thomas Gage. So with everything that happened ten years after the seven year war had started there was a short lived peace that ended briefly with the start of a new war against the Americas. So in some eyes the seven year war lasted about sixty-one Years.

1.       What could have been done differently by the British, to spare all the blood shed?

2.       In what ways did the British underestimate the Native Americans?

3.       What were the three major wars discussed in the article?