1. James H. Merrell argues that the circumstances that the European settlers created for the Native American people led to the Native Americans living in a completely alien environment, thus forming their “New World”. He stipulates that Native Americans underwent significantly greater changes to their society than the Europeans did after traveling across an ocean. 2. The author presented various drastic changes in the lives of the Native people that occurred after white settlers arrived on their land.
There were harsh conflicts between white explorers and Native Americans from the earliest starting point of European colonization of the New world, such viciousness expanded in the mid-nineteenth century as European pioneers moved ever advance west over the American mainland. Most white Americans accepted there was horrible quality of life in peace and agreement with Native Americans, the government made the reservation framework
The native americans known as the indians, were just simply in their own territory. While in their own territory they get robbed by the explorers. At the beginning the native americans and explorers did not speak the same language so that led to them not communicating well.
Europe, such as Spain, France, and England, have had different language, culture, political system, religion and more, which they developed by themselves in their civilization. In the late 1400s to 1500s, Europeans started the colonization and economic competitions each other between countries to get more assets since their resources and lands were limited and not enough. At that time, Spaniards and French had the same purpose for exploring the New World such as pursuing wealth, winning the economic competition, but they approached to Native Americans in different ways. The difference between these two countries when they encounter with Indians was the relationship with Native Americans. Spanish and Christopher Columbus were too absorbed on finding golds and slaves to make a thriving trade when Spain discovered the new land and met Native Americans.
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.
• The first form of democracy in the Americas came from the Iroquois Confederacy although the House of Burgess was some form of legislative government in Virginia • There are some ideas which there haven 't been any textbooks that mention that the ideas from the Bill of Rights actually could have never happened without the Native Americans • "Do you really believe that all those ideas would have found birth among a people who spent a millennium butchering other people of intolerance of questions of religion?"(John Mohawk ,113) • At some points in history the Natives weren 't hated by all the colonists. They were also used as symbol during the Boston Tea Party where the colonists rebelled against Britain and made it lose lots of money
Article Summary: Ta-Nehisi Coates connects his learning of the french language with being black and growing up in a black culture. He talks about the fact that aquiring a foreign language is hard and the fact that his classmates were in the main high-achieving college students. Him and his classmates had no difference in work ethic but they had something over him. They were in a culture of Scholastic achievers.
Rachael Goodson Professor Kathrine Chiles ENG & AFST 331 15 February 2018 William Apess In the nineteenth century, America was at one of its peaks of racial debate, with people starting to question whether it was right for the African Americans to stay enslaved, or if it was time to start the process of freeing the slaves and allowing them to live a better life. However, most people did not even question how the Native Americans were being treated or forced to change almost every aspect of their lives to “please,” as if they could ever be, the white people. William Apess’ The Experience of Five Christian Indians is an example of some of the harsh ways that Indians were treated before and even after they were “forcibly” converted to Christianity.
Ranging from the south Alleghenies mountain range all the way down to the south of Georgia and far west of Alabama, lived the Cherokee Indians. They were a powerful detached tribe of the Iroquoian family and were commonly called Tsaragi which translates into "cave people. " This tribe was very prominent in what is now called the U.S, but over time has been split up or run out of their land because of social or political encounters with the new settlers from Europe. Despite the dispersion or the split amongst this tribe, they still obtained their core religious beliefs, practices and ceremonies. Their detailed belief system, fundamental beliefs, significant meanings, and their connection to song and dance make up their religious system.
The Europeans were notorious for invading foreign lands and finding the natives inferior to their ways, usual because the natives weren’t living like the Europeans. The Native Americans were no exception, the Europeans once found the natives tractable and peaceful. However, they knew little about the natives and took their peaceful nature as weakness. Furthermore, the Europeans thought the natives were inferior was because of their way of life, their religion and the color of their skin. The Europeans cared little about the Native American way of life, they only cared about exploiting the resources of the Natives home; this meant both natural and human.
The European exploration to the new world only brought chaos and destruction to the Natives Americans. As the European settlers began to settle within in Indian territory in Jamestown, the Chief leader Powhatan did not attack nor came close contact with the outsiders. It was only a matter of time were the colonist would ran out of food, specially when winter came. Many starve to death, other went crazy, buy the indians felt from them and they fed them. The Natives Indians felt that by this peace would between them, they thought wrong.
The Northwest Native Americans had a lot of daily practices. They hunted to get all of their food. The men in the tribe would go into the forest to find deer or bears. Animals were used for meat, clothes, and the bones could be used for They wore little clothing except when it was cold, it was cold most of the time in the northwest so you usually saw them in layers. Many of the Native Americans had made pottery every day to cook with and keep their things in.
When I was a sophomore in high school, I was fortunate enough to visit the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. as well as the Cultural Resources Center. As a cohort in the George Washington University INSPIRE Pre-College Program, I was granted access to NMAI and given a tour of the Cultural Resources Center. As I looked at the exhibits, I noticed how beautifully the artifacts and information was displayed. In addition, I was in awe at the Cultural Resource Center as I walked through the vast shelves of cultural articles and learned about the different types of tools and techniques to preserve artifacts. Through both visits, I realized that I wanted to work in Native American Museums and preserve as well as educate others about Native American culture.
European immigrants to North America or the “New World” heavily burdened the Native Americans. The relationship between both the invading Europeans and the indigenous people was that many historical events, which would shape this country. Native Americans would be forced from their lands and their own beliefs. Firstly, the Spanish came and proclaimed North American as their new land, New Spain.
Further proof of the early settler’s sense of superiority was in their fierce religiosity towards the natives. “The Missionaries who have attempted to convert them to Christianity, all complain of this as one of the great difficulties of their Mission” (Franklin 3). The natives had their own sets of beliefs and values, but this did not stop the settlers from preaching their religion in hopes of changing the natives. As the politeness of the natives was well known, they gladly sat through the stories that the settlers had to offer. This politeness was not reciprocated though, after an Indian Orator shared their beliefs with the missionaries, the settlers primary certitude towards Christianity was evident in the passage “The good Missionary disgusted with this
