Were any Indians( the Native Americans) taken to Britain /Europe and what happened to them?

Answer 1

General James Oglethorpe took his Indian friend and ally, Tomochichi, and his nephew Toonahowi, to England when he made a trip there as colonial governor in 1734. Tomochichi was cheif of the Yamacraw tribe (a hybrid of the Creeks) and a great ally to Oglethorpe and the early GA settlers. During his visit to England, he and his emissary were entertained as honored guests and given gifts. The painting included in wikipedia's entry on him is, as far as I know, the only one ever made of the cheif, and was painted during his visit to England.

Answer 2

New England was named from England people thrown out of England. They came to RI,Con,Mass tone of Indians were in slaved taken to England. My tribe were the first pastors, Occum left his family is all in history. The states baseball teams sports named after native Americans..

Answer 3

I am enrolled S'Klallam and...
I would like to enlighten some people on where the saying "My great great grandma was a _____ princess..." came from.

Let me answer the question first.....

Yes. Europeans took young healthy native women/girls to Europe to sell to royal families as servants. To their dismay, royal families refused to accept such "savages" into their homes to cook and clean up after them...SO these young girls were taken to the queen and proclaimed honorary princesses, so they would be "allowed" into the homes of the rich to be servants.

This is where the misinformation of "princesses" in any tribes entered.

Some people claim to be Native, by stating that their "Great Great Grandmother was a Cherokee(or other) Princess".

There was NO SUCH thing as a Princess in any tribe. A Chief (also known as Lord in some tribes) was the one and only "royally" titled member of a Native nation.

These girls rarely ever returned to "america", as they were enslaved until they were to frail to work anymore, and when this time came they were either cast away or murdered.

Anyway, yeah, pretty messed up huh...

Answer 4

Squanto was kidnapped and taken by George Weymouth in 1605, according to the memoirs of Ferdinando Gorges. According to Gorges, Tisquantum worked in England for nine years before returning to the New World on John Smith's 1613 voyage.

Soon after returning to his tribe in 1614, Tisquantum was kidnapped by another Englishman, Thomas Hunt. Hunt was one of John Smith's lieutenants. Hunt was planning to sell fish and captured slaves in Málaga, Spain. Hunt attempted to sell Tisquantum and a number of other Native Americans into slavery for £20 apiece[citation needed].

Sir Ferdinando Gorges, in A Brief Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England(London, 1622) wrote that some local friars, however, discovered what Hunt was attempting and took the remaining Indians, Tisquantum included, in order to instruct them in the Christian faith. Eventually, Tisquantum escaped to London, living with a John Slany for a few years, and then went to Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland. Attempting to avoid the walk from Newfoundland to his home village, Tisquantum tried to take part in an expedition to that part of the North American east coast. He returned to England in 1618, however, when that plan fell through[citation needed].

He returned once more to his homeland in 1619, making his way with an exploratory expedition along the New England coast. He was soon to discover that his tribe, as well as a majority of coastal New England tribes, had been decimated the year before by a plague, possibly smallpox [citation needed].

Tisquantum finally settled with the Pilgrims and helped them recover from their first difficult winter by teaching them to increase their food production by fertilizing their crops, and by directing them to the best places to catch fish and eels.

Answer 5

Sitting Bull and many others performed for Queen Victoria at the Crystal Palace, maybe some of them stayed.

Answer 6

1595—1617, Native North American woman, daughter of Chief Powhatan. Pocahontas, meaning "playful one" (her real name was said to be Matoaka), used to visit the English in Virginia at Jamestown. According to the famous story, she saved the life of the captured Capt. John Smith just as he was about to have his head smashed at the direction of Powhatan. In 1613, Pocahontas was captured by Capt. Samuel Argall, taken to Jamestown, and held as a hostage for English prisoners then in the hands of her father. At Jamestown she was converted to Christianity and baptized as Rebecca. John Rolfe, a settler, gained the permission of Powhatan and the governor, Sir Thomas Dale, and married her in Apr., 1614. The union brought peace with the Native Americans for eight years. With her husband and several other Native Americans, Pocahontas went to England in 1616. There she was received as a princess and presented to the king and queen. She started back to America in 1617 but was taken ill and died at Gravesend, where she was buried. Pocahontas bore one son, Thomas Rolfe, who was educated in England, went (1640) to Virginia, and gained considerable wealth.

Answer 7

a couple attained college degrees. can't remember their names, sorry. here's something on the subject: http://www.mapuche.info/indgen/houghtonmifflin040901.html