...From 1400 to 1700, European exploration had a huge impact on the lives of the Indigenous people of North America. The European brought new products and Animals along with new diseases that the Native Americans never had before, also the lives of those who lived in America before the Europeans got there and their life drastically changed as soon as they got there. The new Diseases that the Europeans brought to America affected the Native Americans to an extent that they couldn't do anything about it that they just laid there dying. The illness was so dreadful that no one could walk or more. The sick were so utterly helpless, they could only lie on their beds like corpses…” as Miguel Léon-Portilla stated in The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account...
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...The Origin of Native American Man: A Look at Possible Migrations of Pre-Historic Man Into North America Ally Crawford ARC 330 Dr. Ortmann Spring 2011 Abstract The origins of Native American people have been a topic of debate in academia for decades. There have been several theories, up to and including the possibility that Native Americans arrived via alien intervention. The origins of Native Americans are much less fantastic. Native Americans are descended from ancient Eastern Asians, who crossed into the New World sometime before 14,000 BC. Until recently, archaeology could only speculate on this notion. Recent research in the field of molecular biology is proving this theory has merit. Mitochondrial DNA is showing the same markers in Native American populations as in the Asian populations. Other avenues of research have also lead to the discovery that there are similarities in the X and Y-Chromosomes of the two populations. There are many archaeological and anthropological mysteries surrounding the Americas. Perhaps one of the most perplexing and pervasive is the origin of the Native American peoples. There has been little archaeological data found that can substantiate a human or proto-human presence in the Americas before approximately 14,000 BC. If this is the case, the question becomes from where did the Native American population derive? There have been many hypotheses, ranging from the mundane to the bizarre. A popular conspiracy theory states...
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...Native American History John Houston HIS204: American History since 1865 Prof. Gregory Scott August 21, 2013 Thesis statement: Native American history Introduction It has been seen that Native American history extents thousands of thousands of years and two continents. This is a versatile narrative of full of life cultures that in turn generated complicated financial associations and multifaceted political unions. In the course of it all, an association of First Peoples to the earth has stay behind a fundamental subject. Despite the fact that Native Americans of the area nowadays recognized like New England share identical languages and civilizations, recognized like Eastern Algonquian, we can say that they are not one political or societal cluster. To a certain extent, history comprises and still comprises numerous sub-groups. For instance, the Wampanoag reside in southeastern Massachusetts, the Pequot’s and Mohegan’s live in Connecticut at the same time as the Pocumtucks dwelt in the middle Connecticut River Valley close to today's Deerfield, Massachusetts (Bourne, 1990). Similar to the elders of other Native society, Algonquian elders have conventionally conveyed significant civilizing information to the younger age group in words. Such information, passed on in the structure of tales, take in the group's record, information on beginning, viewpoint as well asethical lessons. Verbal ritual communicates formal procedure, supporting...
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...the United States Government ignoring and mistreating the Indigenous people of this land, the Alcatraz occupation in 1969 led by righteous college students, became the longest Indian occupation of federal ground in the history of the United States and a landmark for Indian self-determination. The documentary, Alcatraz is Not an Island, describes the occupation that made Alcatraz a symbol for Indigenous people as motivation to stand up against the cruelty that they have experienced since the arrival of the Europeans. Hence the name of the film, Alcatraz can be seen as an inspiration for Indigenous people rather than an island. The first attempt to occupy Alcatraz took place in 1964 when a group of four Native Americans landed on the island and claimed it for four hours before the coast guard removed them. This became the inspiration for a group of San Francisco State students to attempt an occupation of their own in 1969. When attempting to make it to the island, only one boat agreed to assist the Native American's in their occupation. They were not able to dock on the island, but, Richard Oaks became the leader of the group when he jumped off the boat and swam to the island. After this brief occupation Richard Oaks returned to San Francisco and began to recruit people to join the movement. Oaks went to UCLA where eighty students agreed to join the movement. On November 20, 1969 a group of one-hundred Native Americans set sail from Sausalito and landed on Alcatraz Island, beginning...
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...ordinary as well, and possibly necessary for the advance, however constructive and destructive, of all civilizations.” I agree that colonization does have both positive and negative effects. Colonization causes many changes in the lives of the people being colonized and those changes can be both good and bad. To me the ideal form of colonization would be how the missionaries who came to Ethiopia did it. European colonization resulted in many negative effects on the Native Americans. Colonization lead to the destruction of the Native Americans’ life as they knew it. Within a short period of time their way of life was changed forever. The changes were caused by a number of factors, including loss of land, disease, enforced laws which violated their culture and much more. When the Europeans arrived they brought with them diseases unknown to the natives. The natives had no immunity to these unknown diseases, so they were easily infected and died from these diseases. This lead to massive deaths in Native American communities as they came into contact with the settlers. The killing of natives was not just done by these unknown diseases but also by the settlers themselves. As the settlers moved farther inland they encountered more and more natives; when the Natives tried to defend their land, they were killed off by the incoming settlers and forced away from their native lands on which they had lived for hundreds of years. Due to this forced migration from their native lands, inland...
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...The settling of the New World brought gold and riches for some, religious freedom for others, but death and the loss of culture for those already residing in the Americas. People came to the New World for one of two main reasons, religious freedom and personal financial growth. William Penn, a pacifist, was a member of a group in search of religious freedom, while Bartolome De Las Casas, was a priest who traveled with the Spanish in search of God, glory and gold. Through analysis of William Penn’s Letter to the Indians, combined with an understanding of Las Casas’ documentation of Spanish treatment of Native Americans, one can conclude that the motive for settling determined the treatment of Native Americans. The north was comprised of colonies who settled on the basis of finding religious freedom in the New World. This reason for settling helped to shape the nature of the relationship the settlers would have with the Natives. William Penn, in an attempt to achieve good standing with the Natives, sent a letter explaining his intentions and hopes for a harmonious relationship. Penn opens the letter stating his position with God and the lessons instilled upon him and his people through the word of God (Penn). This is an attempt to show the good nature with which he plans to treat the Natives, this is also a good way for him to bring up God in a first attempt at conversion of Natives. “I am very sensible of the unkindness and injustice that hath been too much exercised towards...
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...The Columbian exchange is the complex exchange of goods, crops, and diseases that took place between the New World and the Old World following discovery of the Americas by the Spanish. The most significant thing to be exchanged were the diseases and pathogens transferred to the indigenous people who were already living on the continent. Diseases brought by the Europeans were ultimately responsible for the massive deaths of about 45 million people. While this aspect is easily the most shocking and negative aspect of the exchange, there were some positive sides to the trade that occurred in this period. The positives came mainly in the form of the new plants that were acquired on both sides of the Atlantic. The Europeans colonized new land to...
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...Small pox and the measles helped kill out many populations of people. These populations even consisted of the Aztecs in the Americas. The Columbian Exchange is not only about diseases. It included the idea that different resources such as the potato were being spread throughout the world. All of it spreaded from China to Scotland and Ireland. Nothing could stop the massive trade in Chile too. Chile became a lot more modern to accept the ideas of artisans and merchants. This is not the only major impact that happened there. A system of feudalism appeared too. There was a mention of Friars. Though, this is not all that happened in the Americas. Animal populations increased too. Sheep became a major animal as the population increased from thirty nine to almost four million. They were not the only animals to spread. Other animals include horse and cattle. It seems that the Columbian Exchange did have a major impact on the world. Many populations of people were receiving goods that would never seem...
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...A Keresan Pueblo Man Explains The Pueblo Revolt by Charles Hackett goes into depth about how the Natives were able to execute such a revolt and the outcome of it. Pedro Naranjo is on trial being prosecuted when the lordship of the New Mexico territory asks him whether “he knows the reason or motives which the Indians of this kingdom had for rebelling…”(Hackett,13) He then goes on to why he did acts and describe what they were. These being killing children and women and burning religious symbols among many other crimes. The Spaniards have a right to be mad at the Pueblos but they do not realize that the whole time they have been trying to conquer the New World they have been committing these atrocities to the native people. This was a long time...
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...mbian Exchange The Columbian Exchange was a widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable disease, technology and ideas between the Natives and Europeans following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Some technological advances happened in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The most notable changes were in the written alphabet, New farming capabilities, New Firearm and Weapon Capabilities and Architectural Ingenuity. The written alphabet was introduced to natives due to having no formal written language. Europeans knew that inquiring this to them would establish relations by way of treaty would be tough and hard to develop and this would help break down communication barriers and in the long run integrate cultures. Trying to convert natives to Christianity was also part of why they were teaching them how to read and write. In a social Darwinism sense, Europeans believed that Christians were above the barbaric natives and when two types of people have something like religion in common, they are more likely to succeed in whatever they were doing together. Religion was a major technological advancement because Europeans believed they were educating and changing natives for the better. Europeans held Christianity to the highest standard in social importance, and considered conversion an evolution and is a key step in the movement of the Columbian exchange. New farm equipment like a plow was seen to ignite the...
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...human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres that occurred after 1492. Many new and different goods were exchanged between the two hemispheres of the Earth, and it began a new revolution in the Americas and in Europe. In 1492, Christopher Columbus' first voyage launched an era of large-scale contact between the Old and the New World that resulted in this ecological revolution: hence the name "Columbian" Exchange. The Columbian Exchange greatly affected almost every society on earth, bringing destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures, and also circulating a wide variety of new crops and livestock that, in the long term, increased rather than diminished the world human population. Maize and potatoes became very important crops in Eurasia by the 1700s. Peanuts and manioc flourished in tropical Southeast Asian and West African soils that otherwise would not produce large yields or support large populations. This exchange of plants and animals transformed European, American, African, and Asian ways of life. Foods that had never been seen before by people became staples of their diets, as new growing regions opened up for crops. For example, before AD 1000, potatoes were not grown outside of South America. By the 1840s, Ireland was so dependent on the potato that a diseased crop led to the devastating Irish Potato Famine. The first European import, the horse, changed the lives of many Native American tribes...
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...There are differences and similarities between various native American tribes, stereotyping native Indians denies the first vast culture differences between tribes. I will bring to your attention the language. The Navajo people of the southwest and the Cherokees of the Southeast have totally unrelated languages. There were over 200 North American tribes speaking over 200 different languages. The Navajo language is an advantage in world war 11. The tribes spoke a wide variety of different languages. This would create numerous troublesome language barriers, because most of the tribes would feud. Some Native American tribes had large scaling farms, whereas other tribes did not. One main thing that the Native Americans had in common was that they were hunters and farmers. In this situation some lived by hunting animals and by bringing together plant resources in the wild. Tribes in different regions shared most of the same food resource. People who lived in regional areas ate more fish, while those who lived on the outside their diets were land animals, such as, deer moose and bison. The major similarity between all these tribes is...
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...A symbol can act as an orchestra, multiple instruments and meanings all contribute to one song that can be heard a million of ways but still mean the same thing. In this case, “Totem” by Thomas King and “Great Big Lie” written by Stephan Kakfwi are the two orchestras. When both writings are examined side-by-side, they each show the unfairness, cruelty, and suffering that Native American Peoples have/are facing. Like totems the Native Americans stood tall, they lived off the land, their roots expanding for centuries while gaining the Earth’s trust. In the “Totem” written by Thomas King, Native Americans are portrayed as the totem pole. In the short story, the totem pole is continually making noise. The sounds the totem pole was making are the sounds of an oppressed people. When the totem pole had been...
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...the new and old world. This was an exchange of plants, animals, diseases and technology which transformed Europeans and Native Americans way of life. This had all began when Columbus made his discovery on 1942. From then on, an exchange of ideas and education began and lasted for years throughout the expansion and discovery of the new world. This exchange, not only impacted the cultural makeup of the world but changed the social makeup on both sides of the Atlantic. One of the greater outcomes of the Columbian exchange would be the technology advances. Due to the exchange, technology had made leaps in advancement in the 15th and 16th century. Europe was an economic and technological power compared to the Native Americans they encountered in the New World. (Technology) When Europe colonized the new world, they...
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...World affected the lives of the Native Americans drastically, in many ways. First, the colonization of Europeans caused many Native Americans to die. In addition, another result of the Europeans colonizing the Americas was that the Native Americans were introduced to new foods and animals, resulting in cultural diffusion. Lastly, in the result of European explorers coming to the New World resulted in the Native Americans to be treated badly, such as being sold into slavery. Overall, the result of Europeans settling in the New World influenced the Native Americans ways of living. First of all, the most direct way that European colonization affected the Native Americans, was the infectious diseases that they brought...
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