In this article, Appes talked a lot about the problems between the white man and the native Indians. For his writing, the Indians were considered as uncivilized, dangerous, and mean people by the European colonists at that time. For separating the Indians and other people, the whites even made something called reservation, but actually a boundary for the Indians. In this region, the Indians could not be educated and they did not have any notion of property. As the result, they were left there without any protection and treated badly by the white people.
As we know, Appes was one of the first Indian American ministers and a great leader in fighting for Native Americans. It was his valour which made him dare to question the system between the Indians and whites, and become a such a successful and important person remembered by us eventually.
Not all of the places that Indians had to move to are boundaries. Only the Cherokee Eastern Band has such a designation. When reservations were set up, Indians of the tribes assigned to that area were made to stay there unless they had permission to work for the whites out in the white world. Education was not prohibited, but it was not provided either. This is why Occom was so dedicated to raising money to start an Indian school. (Reading Occom is an Honors assignment.) Property on the reservations was commonly held -- meaning that it belonged to the tribe as a group and not to individual tribe members.
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