"There was no time left for Study and Art "

In my last post 5/18/2011 I talked briefly about the French and Indian war. I related that this battle took place from 1754-1763 and that it marked the collapse of indigenous American culture in the Mississippi river valley. After 1763 most of the tribal centers deteriorated, turmoil and confusion set in , there was no place for the Indian Nations to live a proper life. Starvation and disease became common place. There was no time left for study and art.

It is interesting to note that no sooner than the war had ended in 1763, the English arrived with demands that their “subjects”assume a greater tax burden than ever before. With the French threat diminished, the British were embolden. Their callous display would so enrage the country that the Declaration of Independence was written and signed into law. This action starts the American Revolutionary War 1776-1783. It is very likely that the war would have been lost if it had not been for the French and Indigenous American fighters that once again came to the battle.