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At War Forevermore: British and American Army Officers and Their Perceptions of Native Americans, 1740-1812

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In the eighteenth century, contact between Native Americans and Euro-Americans was filled with tension. Economic, territorial, and military factors all increased the level of tension and the fervor of violence when conflict inevitably broke out. After the foundation of the republic, this increased significantly as the American frontier pushed westward. On the frontier, army officers drove relationships through personal contact, with deep impacts not felt for over a century. This thesis seeks to examine the evolution, or lack thereof, in relationships between Native Americans and army officers between 1740-1815 in order to understand the roots of later American perceptions on Natives.

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