The Native Americans and Euro-Americans settlers were more different than similar from one another. THESIS: Both the Native Americans and Euro-Americans have very different lifestyles, cultures, and dissimilar perspectives. Euro-Americans saw themselves as conquers of the civilized world and saw the Native Americans as “savages”. Both Euro-Americans and Native Americans had a different theory about the land; it created problems between the two.
Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette are French explorers best known for their joint discovery of the Mississippi River in 1673, an area which the Native Americans called the “Mesipe”. Being the first white men to see and explore this area, they brought various information about the character of the river, the animals, the Indians living on its shores, the forests, the soils, and the minerals that surrounded the river back to the French. They also told people about the magnificence of the vast country that lay outside their borders which encouraged people to move westward. These explorers are credited with the first exploration of the Mississippi River however, they are not the first. Hernando DeSoto was a Spanish Explorer who was the first
Indians vs. Settlers The intercontinental interaction between the Native Indians and European was very unique during all of the historical interactions among different nations. This interaction was characterized mainly by diversity, which played a significant role in assisting the European in suppressing the Indians and dominating the New Land due to the different ideologies and traditions that served on the behalf of the Europeans. During the colonization era, the relations between the Indians and Europeans did not follow only one track, in which the Indians reacted in different ways toward Europeans, which was also done by the Europeans toward the Indians. This diversity was rooted to the Indian’s traditions, the concept of land and freedom, and the different European policies that governed the
First encounter of American Natives and Europeans date back to the Spanish when Hernando De Soto makes first contact with them in 1540 and Juan Parado in 1567. Land hungry and anticipating dominance, Europeans settled on lands already being occupied by the American Natives. With their arrival they threw the native ways out of balance and harmony. This of course brought devastation to the native peoples balanced system; the effects being a change in native health, slave relations and an unstable balance between the native peoples and the American settlers. From the white Anglo-Saxon perspective, they believed that what they were doing was spreading good faith and making the Indians civilized as well as giving them culture, while at the same
Before the Europeans began arriving in North America to expand, the Natives had already established self governing tribes. In the map of Native Cultures in North America from the year 600 to 1500, it is evident that the groups functioned independently from each other. Although, several tribes lived close together, and because of this they shared many similarities but also faced conflicts between each other, due to the change in weather and the poor living conditions it caused. Tribes became weak, and with the “odd-looking strangers” who “frequently took away women and children never to be seen again” and carried plagues with them, leaders understood they must join together to become stronger against the Europeans (Miller). Rather than being
When European explorers first discovered the “New World”, both the newly founded land,and the Native Americans that were effected in good and bad ways. When the Europeans first discovered the Natives, the explorers automatically assumed that they were superior or top class compared to them. Christopher Columbias states,(doc 4) “ Very handsome bodies and very fine faces. They ought to be good servants and of skill, for I see that they repeat very quickly whatever is said to them.” As you can tell from this quote, Columbias clearly thought thought of the Native American culture as a joke, and treated them as if they were animals.
Native Americans were the first people who lived in the country today that is called the United States of America. Then eventually the colonists from England came over and basically took over. They implemented their way of life right on the Natives that impacted them, but in some ways the Natives impacted the Europeans too. The Europeans culture impacted the Natives population and economy. While the Natives impacted the Europeans by teaching them new skills and introducing new trades.
Europeans had travelled to the Americas with intentions of finding gold as well as convert the inhabitants to Christianity. Many Native Americans were not given a choice and were forced to convert to the new religion and give up their traditional beliefs which created many tensions between the Old and New World. John Mair“argued that some people were by nature slaves, and some by nature free (Watson 446).” Because the Native Americans were a less developed civilization, they lacked the power to protest the European invasion and were forced into slavery which further weakened their already existing society as they had to focus on simply surviving against the foreign invaders. But not all shared the view of Native Americans as backwards and uncivilized.
Compare and Contrast the Native American Culture Introduction The Native Americans were the original owners of the United States of America. However, due to the population increase in Europe, the European migrated to America in seek of land for farming, settlement, and spread their religion (Desai, n.p). The two communities lived together and interacted with each other.
When Worlds Collide The Spanish, French and English employed different strategies for colonizing and converting the New World. The effects on natives and the New World environment mainly affected food and resources, peoples, and religion. The strategies employed by the Spanish, French and English caused differences in how the relationships developed between the peoples of the Old and New Worlds. When the Spanish arrived to the New World they brought crops of wheat, sugar, rice, and coffee.
Diversity between the Native American and European World Before 1650 Stephania Reid WOH 1012 19/07/2016 Professor Young Introduction This paper specifically focuses on the comparison and contrast of the culture of Europeans and Native Americans. The inferred question is how these regions way of life should be understood as a human experience. Additionally, the question refers to the diversity of human cultures, norms and to their values, as well as to religions and source of livelihood. Diversity can also be seen where their living conditions transform into different cultural expressions that become our history.
As the Europeans travelled across the Atlantic and into the new world, they encountered different cultures, such as the Natives and the Africans. Between the colonists and the two cultures, the possibility of new communities forming was emerging, with factors that were economical, spiritual, and cultural. Initially, the creation of new and inclusive communities between the Europeans and the indigenous peoples or the Africans was possible due to the promising economic potential regarding trade and labor. However, because of a shift in colonial ideals that began to emphasize wealth through land and labor, and exclusion, both intellectually and spiritually, the formation of such communities became impossible.
“The Other” is a term, in this instance, is used to explain ways in which Europeans and Native American were polarized. “The Other” is when 2 groups meet each other they both seem as “the other” and they're both outsiders. Europeans and Native Americans’ first contact was jarring because of the familial, religious, and societal differences the two had. An example of the difreence of Native Aericans and Europeans were their perceptions on ownership.
There were about 200 tribes and they had distinct backgrounds ("Diversity of Native American Groups."). As I said before, there was a peace treaty between some of them and the new immigrants. The Native Americans were culturally different from the immigrants but still they tried to get along. This showed that everyone should accept cultural differences and look on the peaceful side of things. This might be why our country today is filled with immigrants who live together without much conflict!
As European nations started to make their way to the Americas to broaden and expand their wealth and influence over the ‘New World.’ The first Europeans to explore and settle, this ‘New World’ were the Spanish. However, by the late 1600’s the English had successfully established a dominant presence on the Atlantic coast. Both the Spanish and the English desired to obtain ‘New World’ land for very similar reasons. They both desired silver and gold to add to their country’s vast wealth, as well as what the grains and plants of this ‘New World’ had to offer.
