Native American Research Paper

When it comes to American literature, most people think of only the stories that Americans have written throughout American history. They do not think of the Native Americans or the European explorers and settlers that lived in and explored the land. Many of their stories and literature are hard to find, translate, and research since it was a long time ago. However, the natives, the settlers, and the explorers have literature that is just as much of a big part of American literature than any other groups. In these stories the three different groups talk about their social, religious, and economic aspects and through these three things, how they lived their lives in America. Firstly, starting with the Native Americans, their stories were
The Natives passed down their stories through oral
unlike the Native Americans, whose stories was not translated until some time ago, the explorers recorded sever texts about the Americas. All though many of texts were meant for economical and political information, the reader can still see the social, religious, and economic perspective of the explorers. The first European explorer who was able to come back to Europe with tales of the new world was Christopher Columbus. From him discovering the new world, there was a new wonder with thrusts of exploration, adventure, and a new dream (Baym 31). However many of the settlers who went to the new world began to defy Christopher Columbus’s order and even arrested him and put him in chains. In the letter “From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage, Columbus wrote to the king and queen of Spain, proclaiming his innocence and that he was framed for doing the right thing and that he was betrayed by his men. He wrote “I did not sail upon this voyage to gain honor or wealth; this is certain, for already all hope that was dead” (Columbus 35). As seen that Columbus did not risk his life on these voyages for economic purposes but for social purposes and that him being arrested all the hope was gone. Even though he did find riches and gold in the new world as he wrote in the letter “with great news of gold, being very secure and joyful” that Columbus was very happy to find the gold and give it to Spain for it economic purposes (Columbus 34). However, he