Explain Why Native Americans Should Be Recognized More For Founding Our Society

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Section A: Of the questions that have been raised, Native Americans should be recognized more for founding our society today, should be taught about more thoroughly and accurately, and shouldn’t be assumed to be savages or uneducated as we normally presume them to have been. I learned many new things from the “The New World” chapter from the American Yawp textbook. Among these things, I learned about the different ways the Native Americans thought about their creation, that the males married into the female’s families instead of vice versa, and how the Spaniards incorporated the Native Americans into their colonial lives. The Native Americans had many stories about how they were created, ranging from a bald eagle forming them to emerging from caves. Secondly, I found it interesting that, unlike in our culture today, men married into a woman’s family to gain influence in society. It reminds me, in a way, of the Amazon women in Greek mythology, because they had a matriarchal society as well. Finally, I learned that the Spaniards incorporating the Native Americans into their society by organizing their society by race and purity of their bloodlines. From what I’ve learned in past classes, many Native

By 1550, there five hundred. A report of the year 1650 shows none of the original Arawaks or their descendants left on the island.” The rapid decline in the population in a mere 150 years is staggering. Before the arrival of the Europeans, there were millions of Native Americans across America. After their arrival, their populations were wiped out due to many circumstances, many of which where the Europeans are directly at fault for. Just in a 35-year span (from 1515 to 1550), 90% or forty-five thousand people of the population that was left in 1515 was wiped out. That doesn’t include the number of Native Americans that were wiped out between the time Columbus came in 1492 and