I believe that all of these can be perceived as Indigenous revolutions because these events were trying to push back against the colonial spread. Native communities drastically changed after these indigenous revolutions because their way of life was changed by colonists. They relied on the French to help them with the rapidly expanding ideals of Christianity and land mass, but after the French removed themselves from the 7 years’ war they were on their own. Everything was at stake for these Natives, they had their land, their homes, and their culture to protect. They also had to deal with pain and suffering like being enslaved or being hunted down for a bounty. From these instances, it was not surprising that they decided to band together and form an alliance. For example, we have many leaders that have tried to unite the tribes that were around them to drive off the whites, like Tecumseh and Pontiac. I somewhat admire both of these men because of their dedication to what they believed in. Pontiac was an Odawa war chief, and he was a believer in Lenni Lenape. Lenni had a vision about the Master of Life and how the Native Americans have disconnected from him because they have adopted the white culture. Pontiac was smart and “used the prophet’s teachings to forge a political movement. If tribes obeyed the Master of Life’s instructions and united, they would be able to drive whites from their territory militarily.” This quote is pretty direct but there is some deeper things from this. He used what Lenape said in his vision and spread the news and took control of the situation. He used this to his advantage to gain his power, very smart move. After that he explained how if they did unite over this, they could drive the whites from their lands. I don’t think Lenape mentioned anything about using military power to drive out the white in his visions. I think this situation ended up like this because it was said that Pontiac was Lenape’s most influential follower, “and because Pontiac was a war chief. I think he interpreted Lenape’s visions differently than other people would have. He did eventually unite a lot of tribes, like the Ottawa, Delaware, Potawatomie, etc… Unfortunately, they did not have the weapons like the colonists did and his rebellion ultimately failed. The word ‘liberty” has a lot of discourse when used in different categories. When we think of liberty in the United States, that we are a nation united under God and we have all this land. However, that excludes almost all of the people who were living on these lands before us. Our liberty does not mean liberty to them. It meant getting kicked off of their land, the land that their fathers and so on have lived on for centuries. It meant being treated as an alien and forced to relocate hundreds of miles away. Or it meant enslavement or even death to the ones that refused to leave their lands.