Boston Tea Party: Was it a cowardly act? What effect on Native Amer afterweards?

Question

Given what we know about mob mentality of the dominant culture, the history of theft, lynchings, rapes and torture and the holocost history that has affected an intially freindly, sharing, peoples; How do you think the Native Americans were treated immediately after the Boston Tea Party? Consider US corpoate business practices in the past and present; slavery, broken treaties, union breaking, profit theft, etc... Do you think that All of the tea went into the harbor, or maybe some large portion of it went to an underground market for sell?

Answer 1

If there was cowardliness involved it was in the unwillingness to be known as one of the participants, which of course, was the point of dressing up like Indians. I seriously doubt it effected the Indian community at all, since, grapevines being what they are, there might have been all of about five minutes of doubt on the point of who dumped the tea. My guess is all the tea went into the harbor, which was a great waste of a wondeful drink, but putting any of it into an underground market would have defeated the point of the protest, and the colonists were rather serious about making their point at that point in time. I do suggest that reading the book "The Founding Fathers on Leadership" by Donald T. Phillips would help to deepen your own understanding of how America came to be and could help your thinking and your own future actions and how they will impact your own generation.

Each of us has a chance to serve in our own generation and that's it.

Answer 2

The Boston tea party was not a cowardly act, but a well thought purposefully effected event,it laid the foundations (at least the popular one), of the American WAY of life,Hegemony in every aspect of life,double speaks,double standards,and more over,absolute machaivelian acts.We see similar acts almost every day,a rule for the world a rule for SAM.uncle or nephew dont mean a thing because its the dollar that will swing.native american women were always a welcome and more refreshing change,probably a harvard law graduate would have said where is the problem,it was a case of indians throwing out indian tea.

Answer 3

well actually i am from boston and the colonists were protesting the unreasonable taxes by the british especially on teaand it did go into the harbor they dressed up as indians to keep they're indentity secret but they made it very evedent to the british that it was colonists that were enraged by the taxation without representation

Answer 4

nobody really though it was native americans who threw the tea overboard. they were painted up in a obvious disguise...like todays catburglars using blackface. besides, native americans were treated like **** already.

Answer 5

no. bad tax.
american began to drink coffee. better drink.
the indians were seen as being in the way of the us interests. us began extermination.
i think most of it went into the sea.