Cahokia Native Americans

When the colonists came to America, they classified the Native Americans as complete brutal savages. But was that a correct assumption? The Native Americans lived a life that was a complete opposite from the way that the Europeans were accustomed to. The Native Americans believed that the land was shared by everyone and not one person could own it. The Native Americans also had a polytheistic religion which completely went against the beliefs of the colonists. The colonists viewed the Native Americans as savages and barbarians because their ways of living were different.

During the sixteenth century European pilgrims migrated across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in North America. North America had just been introduced to the Western Civilization. The America’s were home to the indigenous people, that were made up of several tribes that were called Indians by the early settlers. Together the Indians and settlers began to thrive. Growth and development in the new world was made possible by the abundant amount of natural resources.

The Cherokee tribe is known as one of the earliest and largest Indian tribe in North America. They are federally recognized even today among several states(museum). While they slowly became Americanized by the Europeans who came over to America, some still practice their typical Indian rituals publicly today. Most converted to Christianity and their government in Oklahoma is based off the American government with three branches. One would believe that the Trail of Tears could have completely vanquished these Indians but many made it through the horrendous trial and kept the Indian bloodline going even present day (Conley).

The Cahokia are a tribe I have never heard of before, but I have heard of other Native American tribes such as the Cheyenne or the Cherokee. What surprised me that the Cahokia and other Native American tribes used up so many of the trees when they were building homes and setting up camps. I thought that Native Americans were usually very connected with nature and used skins of the animals they hunted and minimal wood for camps. I think that the Europeans had misconceptions that Native Americans were peaceful land dwellers. The Native Americans were actually in fact very hostile towards other Natives especially rival tribes. I think the Europeans were very shocked when they found out that the Native Americans would actually perform human sacrifice. The Native American tribes were part of a civilized culture because they figured out how to build their own small cities and provide for themselves. I also read that the Native Americans also felt very civilized with the things that they owned.

These people that we broadly categorize as Native Americans descended from a small band of men and women who had crossed the Bering Strait land bridge between Alaska and Siberia about 12,000 years ago. The bridge closed about a thousand years after their arrival, effectively barring anyone else from joining them. As a result, they effectively closed themselves out from the rest of the world for thousands of years. This gave them the chance to thoroughly “explore the entire continent” and learn how to properly cultivate the land around them, and also grow their population to 10s of millions (Resendez 139).

Natives Americans settled in the New World way before the Europeans. Natives settled here and began colonization. They established villages, where they got the supply of food and water. In 1492 Europeans discovered the Americas they thought this was untouched territory. But they were wrong there was already civilization there. This would mark the continuous growing New World.

Native Americans were seen as savage societies when it was newly "discovery" by the Europeans. European societies labeled people who were not only different in language, but also those who lived by the laws of nature, or without any laws, learning, religion or morals as “savage.” Not only did Europe’s discovery of the America’s opened a new source of prosperity to the commercial part of Europe, but the fall of the native when introduced to the violence and sickness brought over from the Old World.

The Europeans originally believed that the only people in America were a few random tribes. However, the Americas were very populated. I never

When people think about the history of Native Americans, they rarely think about how vast and rich it is. Much of the education about aboriginal people in the Americas begins and ends with Christopher Columbus. This association leads people to believe that Native Americans were small in number and short in history. However, Native Americans have a lengthy and complex history, that archaeologists and anthropologists have tried to piece together for years. Throughout history, there has been a strong interest in finding out the origins of Native Americans, and tracing back when they got to North America.

Native people were living in almost every region in North America. They were thinly spread between MesoAmerica (Aztecs) all the way to present day Canada (Eskimo and yellowknife). Between these two regions the Iroquois people had settled in the northeast, the Chocktaw people settled in the southeast, the Yuki people settled in present day California, and the Flathead people settled in the plateu region. For further evidence, the Siox people had settled in the Great Plains, the Navajo people settled in the southwest, and the Shoshoni people settled in the Great Basin. Therefore, North America had a great Native American presence almost all

One misconception that the Europeans had about North America was that the land had never truly been used. They believed the land had never been used for crops or homesteading, as evidenced by Alexis de Tocqueville. “North America was inhabited only by wandering tribes who had no thought of profiting by the natural riches of the soil.” In fact, it is quite the opposite. Many tribes utilized the fertile land, employing

The Europeans that came on the second journey to the New World were misguided on many parts. They were mislead into thinking that the land they found had never been civilized. They were very wrong- more than

When I read a lot about Native America who are they, what was their culture, the size of their territories, their economical, political, militaries as well as what look like the lost of their land and unexpected reduced of the numbers of people, since 1784 to presents. I knew some information all about the abodes

The New World opened many opportunities to the Europeans. Although everyone country that came to America wanted to conquer land, they also had many different motives on what they wanted The New World to provide for them. The Spanish, French, and British all had different motives for conquering The New World, while some worked and some didn’t.

Prior to the discovery of the New World, vast numbers of indigenous people lived for centuries without knowing that they were lost. These civilizations touted political and family hierarchies, established forms of trade and currencies, agricultural developments, medical knowledge and various well-developed spiritual beliefs. Europeans, with their complex history of international political intrigue and Catholic-Protestant schisms, were quick to judge the varied American cultures they encountered as inferior.