How did the Declaration of Independence affect Native Americans?

Question:Any reliable sources would be greatly apprieciated. I was able to find how it affected African Americans but I cannot find anything on what or how it affected Native Americans.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Any reliable sources would be greatly apprieciated. I was able to find how it affected African Americans but I cannot find anything on what or how it affected Native Americans.

From the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence:
"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

So, the Declaration of Independence did not apply to the American Indians of the time who were the "enemies." And this is the same document so often quoted as saying, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,..."

Well it began America and the Manifest Destiny which pretty much was the beginning of the end for them having any land.

NONE they weren't even considered in the issue .At that time very few possibly no one knew or thought about what lay beyond the mississippi or the future possibilitys .

A vague reference is made to the naturalization of foreigners and migration of others... could this be an attempt to address Native Americans? I don't think so... so... the DOI was not drafted to address any of the concerns that Native Americans may have had with England.

However, the DOI did address problems colonialists were having with Native Americans in the sense that the crown was preventing State from establishing an army for its own protection.

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Indirectly. With the American Colonies declaring an open break, the British increased their wooing of the Indians as allies against the patriots. Indians served as auxiliaries with many British northern campaigns as well as conducting massive raids that drove back the frontier, North and South. Being largely allied with what became the losing side, the Americans had another reason to seek their virtually complete expulsion from the territories the Americans claimed.

Another result of the Declaration of Independence was that America would reassert its claim to the territory between the Ohio and the Great Lakes. Great Britain's assignment of this territory to Canada had angered those Americans who looked to settling in that area.