Imagine you an Native American working around your house just peacefully doing what you have to do. Then you see some settlers walking on your land with a gun ordering you out of your land. If you were that Native American what would you do? Native Americans once had all their land and were living peacefully then they signed a piece of paper and lost it all and got moved away. Then settlers and miners kept on taking and taking and taking their land away from them breaking the paper the Natives signed. This
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European Expansion and Native American Losses When the European colonies arrived to the land we now call America‚ the Native Americans’ way of life was destroyed. Europeans brought over diseases such as smallpox‚ measles‚ and malaria‚ all of which were never before exposed to the Native Americans. Disease wasn’t the only thing that the Europeans brought over. Along with Disease‚ Europeans also brought their culture‚ lifestyle‚ and their lust for land. The population of the Native Americans
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and the American wilderness liked and respected Native Americans. They even interbred with them and sold them guns‚ which was very often illegal. Traders had a special status in Native American society. A trader could travel thousands of miles in his canoe without once being robbed or molested. Contrast that with Europe‚ where anyone from another town was fair game. However‚ the English settlers‚ after a very brief period of good relations in Massachusetts‚ came to loathe Native Americans. There
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New Settlers and Native Population Early English settlers viewed the native populations as little more than savages and a primitive people that were inferior to them. The English believed that‚ since they were an inferior people‚ their land could be taken and claimed for the English so that they could continue to expand and settle new areas and mire towns and villages. In this Essay I aim to Explain the views of the colonists about the native populations as well as the views of the Natives about
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Indians viewed prosperity as having the most political influence while English saw it as having more available commodities but both took on the same attitude in order to achieve it. From the very beginning it was evident how different Native Americans were from English settlers. One particular difference‚ land use‚ indirectly caused a huge divide in how each group obtained fortune. This difference lead to a difference in how each defined property which finally lead to a difference in how one used that property
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Land was very important to the Europeans. And especially the European settlers coming to the new land. In England land meant that you were very wealthy. If you owned large amounts of land you also could have been someone with a lot of political power. The majority of the settlers could never have owned land in Europe because they were very poor. They were just lucky that they got a spot on the ship. They also belonged to religious groups that didn’t have a lot of power. In the new world no one owned
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European Colonization on the Comanche Tribe European colonization had a big effect on the Comanche tribe and other Native Americans. Due to the introduction of many different things it changed the way they live‚ hunt and see things from their own perspective. In a way it is good that the Europeans found the Native Americans for our sake‚ as to the discovery of new foods‚ people etc but for the Comanche’s it wasn’t such a good thing. The most shocking and unexpected effect that could have happened
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The European nations all had at least one thing in common when they came to the Americas and that was to increase their wealth. The Europeans thought of themselves as bold‚ fearless‚ and heroic explorers that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to discover a new kind of world. The Native Americans believed the Europeans were ruthless marauders. The truth is that both the Europeans and Native Americans’ viewpoints were right. The Americas were unknown and nonexistent to Europeans until their courageous
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circumstances traditional Native American cultures couldn’t have co-existed alongside European American cultures. The Americas have come a long way in their intercultural acceptance and interactions. Looking back at the relationship between African Americans and Caucasians one would have never believed that we would have a African American President. Though we have made amazing progress I do not think that the European American culture and the traditional Native American cultures could have co-existed
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The natives and settlers conflicted over lots of things all throughout history. Some causes of conflict were more important than others. Some were misunderstood‚ others were about land and resources‚ a few were about how some people were more superior than others. The most important causes of conflict are miscommunication & misunderstanding‚ settlers belief that they were superior‚ and different beliefs about land and land use. The settlers and natives had many causes of conflict over animals and
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