The Spanish Encounter the Native Americans During the 15th and 16th century‚ many of the nations in Europe were in competition to find new land and resources. This drive for new wealth lead many of the nations in exploration to what they called “the new world”. Leading this charge was the nation of Spain. During Spain’s exploration of what is now known to be North and South America‚ the Spanish came across a plethora of indigenous people to these new lands. As documented in the writing of Christopher
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Chapter one Native American Worlds‚ pp. 7-14 Anthropologists and historians believe that the first inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere were migrants from Asia‚ most of whom most probably came by land between 13‚000 B.C. and 9000 B.C. across a hundred-mile-wide land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. About 3000 B.C.‚ some Native American peoples developed better cultivation techniques and began to farm a variety of crops‚ most notably maize (corn)‚ which resulted in agricultural surpluses that
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destroys lives‚ relationships and families all over the world. Native Americans seem to have suffered immensely by it. Since the coming of the Englishmen and the introduction of new knowledge and tools Native people have been trying to hold on to their own culture and their own way of life. Unfortunately with them came new items for consumption‚ alcohol was one of the main ingredients to the internal downfall of Native populations. Native American populations suffer greatly due to the ongoing epidemic of
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“From the fact that the Indians are barbarians it does not necessarily follow that they are incapable…” (de Las Casas 3). In For the Record‚ it starts off right away in this section of how the Europeans while not sure of what to make of the Indians they knew that these were not the savages as some had described. De Las Casas goes on to describe of a people that were both loyal and committed to the community and to their fellow man. De Las Casas main adversary‚ Gines Sepulveda‚ failed to see the
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Smallpox was a disease that affected many of the Native people in America. What is smallpox really‚ have you wondered? It’s considered one of the most destructive diseases in history because of all of its deaths. It was a disease that was spreading everywhere in America after it was brought from European countries. Smallpox is a rapidly spreading disease. There were different types of vaccines‚ but still tough for some Indians. Smallpox was split differently with how rare and deathly it was
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However‚ though there is a wide spectrum of native religions in the Americas‚ most of them tend to be less hierarchical and more flexible than Christianity. If you asked most Indians in some respectful manner‚ I think you’d find most of them wouldn’t have a problem reconciling a philosophical belief that we have lived here since time immemorial with natural evidence that we arrived here at least 20‚000 years ago. Why shouldn’t they both be true? The Creator is great‚ we don’t always understand the
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The winter wind blows cold across my fur pelt yet I am warm surrounded by those I know and our nomadic settlement fire. Our small‚ traveling clan has settled in southwestern Ohio for the winter. We are happy for now though we experience many dangers as the days grow colder. We have prepared for the changing season‚ ensuring that our food stores were full and our shelters would stand against the harsh weather to come. We have learned from the stories of winters before us. The clan elders speak of
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Disrespect was a major cultural difference. From the beginning of the relationship between Native and European Americans‚ the European Americans(Europeans) repeatedly dishonored the treaties which they agreed to uphold. Usually‚ they established the same treaties they betrayed‚ such as the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851); which eventually led to the tragic massacre of the Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek.[1] “The Treaty set forth traditional territorial claims of the tribes as between themselves.” [2]
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In the late 19th century‚ Americans started settling in the West rapidly. Just like Americans‚ Indians had their way of things. Once Americans settled problems started to occur. The problems between them were how they both thought about land‚ thoughts on religion‚ and disease. These problems showed how the Native Americans and the white settlers interacted. The first difference in the way they interacted was how they thought about land. To the white settlers‚ owning land was extremely important
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The relationship between the Americans and the Native Americans had been tumultuous for some time. The Americans insisted on recklessly encroaching on Indian land and the Indians were forced to defend it. The Rocky Mountain Fur Company’s fur traders were licensed to trade only to do trade with the Indians‚ but they set out to trap and hunt instead. What they didn’t realize was that two Indians had been killed just a few weeks prior in a skirmish with the Missouri Fur Company and the situation in
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