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    power‚ Native Americans are also regarded to have been subjected to significant change. When the Europeans first arrived in the late 1400s‚ they brought with them the intent of not only exploring to find India‚ but also to find gold and much more wealth. The Europeans made a mistake in their navigation causing them not to arrive in India‚ but rather what they referred to as the “New World.” The Europeans had stumbled upon the Native Peoples that occupied that place. The Native Peoples were soon to

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    the first contact Europeans had with native people was pleasant and thrilling. Other Europeans had different attitudes and opinions about prehistoric people that would dictate their relations with the native people they first encounter and define the Indians for centuries. On October‚ 1492-1493‚ the first Spaniard colonist to contact the native Indians in America is Christopher Columbus during his first voyage he discovered the indies accepted everything of small value and gave what they had very willingly

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    000 Native Americans? Well in the year 1532‚ a Spanish conquistador known as Francisco Pizarro invaded the New World. He quickly got into a conflict with the largest state of the New World and managed to capture the absolute monarch‚ Atahuallpa. Francisco charged a ransom for his release and even after the ransom was given‚ he killed Atahuallpa. They were defeated and this cycle was continued by more Spanish conquistadors until the Native Americans were completely defeated. The Europeans were able

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    came across what is now known as North America. Columbus actually thought he had found a new and shorter route to the West Indies. When this was announced‚ the news spread like wildfire and it was not soon after that‚ other countries began to send their own explorers. It was a bright and positive time when leaders wanted to claim new land for their country. But‚ what of the people that were already settled in America where Columbus had been so quick to claim for Spain? These people were the real settlers

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    Beginning in the sixteenth centuryEuropeans made the voyage to a “new world” in order to achieve dreams of opportunity and riches. In this other world the Europeans came upon another people‚ which naturally led to a cultural exchange between different groups of people. Although we commonly refer to European and Indian relations as being between just two very different groups of people‚ it is important to recognize this is not entirely true. Although the settlers of the new world are singularly

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    The Conflict of Europeans and Native Americans After watching the movie The Snow Walker‚ I was very intrigued by how welcoming the Native American tribe known as Inuit was to the white man. However‚ in the movie Dances With Wolves the Sioux tribe was not as trusting and welcoming to the white man. My curiosity grew even more after watching and comparing both movies as to the differences in these two tribes and their attitudes towards the white man. America Colonization Upon the European’s discovery

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    The cultural interactions between the Europeans and Native Americans shaped the European culture in the New World positively in many ways‚ a few of them being food supply‚ trade and hospitality. The Native Americans were very friendly and helpful when the Europeans came over. They began to shower the Europeans in gifts of food and goods in hopes for the same in return. The Native Americans not only offered some of their own food supply they also gave them tips and taught them how to grow crops successfully

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    in America before the Europeans arrived was inhabited by nomadic Indians that possibly migrated from Siberia and Southwest Europe. The nomadic Indian tribes relied on hunting and gathering food. As the climate changed and the extensive hunting of large animals forced the Indians to adapt to settling into villages. They built homes and grew simple crops such as corn and beans. They also created pottery to store their abundance of crops. The largest civilizations in North America were the Pueblo-

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    In the time of the American Revolutionary War‚ there were many differences that influenced how our country turned out today. Most of the cultural differences occurred between the Native Americans and the Europeans that had newly settled in what is known today as America. Some of the most notable differences were those of religion‚ political‚ economic‚ and social. These differences divided the habitants of America in several ways and formed many bonds but also brought them to many moments of conflict

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    The arrival of Europeans on the North American continent impacted Native American indigenous people in ways that have been discussed in written material of eyewitnesses 500 years ago‚ as well as anthropologists and historians in recent times. The science of human evolutionary genetics has now provided confirmation that the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent catalyzed a demographic disaster for Native American indigenous peoples. New evidence indicates that although the population

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