Adena Society Thesis Statement

Compare and contrast the material in the lecture notes and the material from the readings.

Thesis Statement

Although there is some misinformation about the Adena Society and some confusing or incomplete information about the Iroquois and the French explorer Henri DeTonti, a closer look at the overall history of the Adena, as well as the overall history of the iroquois, and comparing the lecture notes to the actual historical information contained in the readings, will show that the lecture notes are historically accurate.

II. Misinformation in lecture notes

Adena Society the Great Serpent Mound vs the Serpentine Mound Zaleski OH vs Peebles OH

Iroquoian longhouses animal skins vs elm bark for covering

Stored bark

III. confusing or

The Iroquois Tribes. US History online textbook. http://www.ushistory.org/us/1d.asp 6 Mar. 2016

I. Which European Colonial Country treated the Native Americans with concern and recognition of their humanity?

A. Thesis Statement

While the Spanish forced the Native Americans to convert to Christianity and kept them as slaves living in horrible conditions in the Missions, in contrast the French treated the Native Americans as equals by encouraging a peaceful coexistence with the tribes and giving natural citizenship to Native Americans who were baptized as Catholics, in addition the French often adopted Native American culture while living among the tribes and by learning the Native American languages.

II. Spanish and Native American relationship

Establishment of the Missions

The changing goal

The Spanish need for labor

Native Americans and the Missions

Taken to the Missions

Forced to convert to Christianity the Native Americans kept as slaves living conditions in the Missions

Native American Diet

Native American health dormitories The French and the Native American relationship

The French

Starting with the Spanish who forced the Native Americans to convert to Christianity and kept them as slaves living in horrid conditions in the Missions. in contrast the French treated the Native Americans as equals by encouraging a peaceful coexistence with the tribes and giving natural citizenship to Native Americans who were baptized as Catholics. in addition the French often adopted Native American culture while living among the tribes and by learning the Native American languages. First the Spanish. Spain established Missions in New Spain, now the Western United States, with a stated goal of converting Native Americans to Christianity. At the start they did work toward that goal, and at first it may have been their only goal. But the goal changed as there weren’t many Spanish willing to settle in the New World and Spain had sent their Military and their Missionaries. As a result the Spanish needed to acquire a source of labor to support the Pueblos, Presidios, and Missions, This where the Native Americans came into the