I think Pontiac’s Rebellion is a good example of a revolution because of his point to break away from the assimilation of what white colonialism had gradually forced the Natives into. In a comment that I made on a blog post of one of my peers, I made the point that there is a difference between assimilation and modernization and that in this particular example of Pontiac’s revolution, Natives have blurred the line between the two which caused communities to gradually fall apart. The reason for this blur: colonization and white assimilation.
It’s good that there are people who agree with Pontiac’s speech as well as Alibamo Mingo’s words on the matter during the time, because this motivated several Natives to revolt against colonial assimilation. Another good reason why this revolt was needed was because not only did assimilation cause Native communities to fall apart but it also caused several Natives to drop traditions that their tribes and people had salvaged for so many years.
The white man’s idea of “liberty” during that time was to break apart Native communities by making attempts to force enemy tribes together with treaties, threaten and hurt the lives of African American people, blame hispanics for the lack of positions in the job market, keep women away from equal pay and voting rights, and even hating on foreigners and people who believed in other faiths besides Christianity and Catholicism. These are all separate examples of the white man’s idea of “liberty”, and yet it had caused nothing but trouble for hundreds of years to several different types of people. It was up until only recently that the U.S. has slowly changed the whole ideals around “liberty” and trying their best to bring about “Justiice for All”, and yet we still have a long way to go before we could ever receive that type of piece that our constitution was mean, on paper, for us to have.
These are only my thoughts and analyses on the matter as a whole, but I do believe the meaning of what I’m saying is, pretty much, face value stuff that must be taken more seriously in our general thinking when it comes to our decisions in American politics.