How Did Native Americans Affect The Culture Of Appalachia?
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Bottom of Form From the very onset of the areas existence; the Native Americans played a major role in the culture of Appalachia. The area that we know now as Appalachia received its name from the coastal Indians of northwest Florida, who were called the Apalachee. Then in the 1500’s the Europeans began to move from the coastal areas inland and encountered many different tribes of Native Americans. They fought at almost every turn, the Europeans attempting to gain ground and the Native Americans trying to keep it. These Europeans had moved to this country to escape famine and depressed living conditions, which was brought on by their respective governments. These people, I’m sure, did not think that they would have …show more content…
European immigrant males discovered that the Native American men and women’s roles in domestic culture differed from their traditional ways. The Native American women maintained the home place and the male role was to hunt and fight, to the degree that the males would mostly live in the woods. The European women soon learned to what degree the Native American women were held to and found that the Native American woman’s life was more appealing than their own oppressive life. There were many European women that eventually migrated to this Indian culture and refused to return to their traditional lives with European men. This way of life also appealed to younger European men, who had to toil under the direct supervision of their fathers. The freedom of the woods seemed much more appealing to them. There was also a cultural change for the Cherokee male in that after becoming accustomed to trading with the Europeans, their role turned from hunter to income producer. These cultural changes defiantly had an impact on both the Europeans and the Native Americans as well. I believe that the European women that refused to return to their traditional ways and decided to live with the Native Americans could have been the very beginnings of the women’s movement for equal
Bottom of Form From the very onset of the areas existence; the Native Americans played a major role in the culture of Appalachia. The area that we know now as Appalachia received its name from the coastal Indians of northwest Florida, who were called the Apalachee. Then in the 1500’s the Europeans began to move from the coastal areas inland and encountered many different tribes of Native Americans. They fought at almost every turn, the Europeans attempting to gain ground and the Native Americans trying to keep it. These Europeans had moved to this country to escape famine and depressed living conditions, which was brought on by their respective governments. These people, I’m sure, did not think that they would have …show more content…
European immigrant males discovered that the Native American men and women’s roles in domestic culture differed from their traditional ways. The Native American women maintained the home place and the male role was to hunt and fight, to the degree that the males would mostly live in the woods. The European women soon learned to what degree the Native American women were held to and found that the Native American woman’s life was more appealing than their own oppressive life. There were many European women that eventually migrated to this Indian culture and refused to return to their traditional lives with European men. This way of life also appealed to younger European men, who had to toil under the direct supervision of their fathers. The freedom of the woods seemed much more appealing to them. There was also a cultural change for the Cherokee male in that after becoming accustomed to trading with the Europeans, their role turned from hunter to income producer. These cultural changes defiantly had an impact on both the Europeans and the Native Americans as well. I believe that the European women that refused to return to their traditional ways and decided to live with the Native Americans could have been the very beginnings of the women’s movement for equal