Dbq Native Americans

The Cherokees were natives to the new land before the europeans came to colonized it.

The Spanish came to the New World with the idea that they were going to practically enslave, convert, or kill the natives. Because of this the Spanish’s treatment for the natives was terrible and very early on. They would use natives to help them find gold and do other manual labor activities. The missionaries would attempt to convert them to Christianity and because a lot would not comply they would end up killing them. Early on the British settlers’ relationship with the native Americans is very different. At first, they were friendly. The first British settlers in a way to live on the Native Americans. North America them was very different from Great Britain, and the Native Americans had lived there for very long time. So, the British settlers took advantage of that and began to trade with the Native Americans and use them in order to help their new settlement survive. Although the Spanish and British relationship with the natives differed at first eventually they both ended up doing the same exact thing. They both killed the Native Americans and cause their societies to be displaced. Even though there and goals were different they both used the exploitation of Native Americans in order to achieve these goals.

After observing local natives, the first Spanish conquistadors came to the conclusion that the Native Americans were barbaric and in dire need of Christian teachings. Thus, Spanish colonists made it their mission to convert the local natives to Christianity, using violence when there was resistance. In 1597, there were a series of uprisings by the Guale Indians in present-day Florida. They destroyed many missions, explaining that the Spanish missionaries had attempted to eliminate their religious practices such as feasts and celebrations. The Spanish also oppressed the Native Americans, and used them as a labor force under the encomienda system. The French, on the other hand, are known for their peaceful alliances with the Native Americans. Colonists established trade agreements with the local natives, obtaining raw goods such as fur and timber. Their peaceful relationship may in fact be attributed to the Spanish; the “Black Legend” of Spanish cruelty towards Native Americans made other European countries eager to prove themselves different. The French took pride in the fact that they treated the Native Americans more humanely than their Spanish counterparts. In addition, the French were not interested in expanding their territory, unlike the Spanish. They were simply looking for trade opportunities, and a mutual relationship with the Native Americans was advantageous. The primary goal of Spain

Most colonists that came in the early 1600’s were Christians, a religion that has very specific rules and rigid regulations that must be followed to be a “saved” person destined for a paradisiacal after life. Within these restrictions were the directions to “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). It seems clear that from the first the Christian religion was telling the colonists to “help” the natives by making them conform to the culture of the colonists and destroying their own. This was always done with a sense of Native American natural inferiority. In most cases, the Native Americans were not told the entire nature of their conversion. A Jesuit described the tactics used in converting Native Americans, “The outward splendor with which we endeavor to surround the Ceremonies of the Church…with a magnificence surpassing anything that the eyes of our savages have ever beheld – all these things produce an impression on their minds” (Le pays reneverse by denys delage 168). For those truly religious souls, coming to the New World meant a chance to bring salvation and Christianity to new

This is the analysis of the native people who were affected by the arrival of the British. As seen in this source there is a boy dressed in all his native clothing and he is outside. Then in the next photo is the same boy, in what looks to be a suit. The boys stance is completely different in the photo before as well. I believe the creator of this photo is trying to show the difference between before the British came and changed the Indians lives and made them do the thing they wanted. This links to globalization because the British practiced there own was and are now trying to force them on different cultures around the world.

Early on, some opposition against the actions of the Spanish in the New World where the priest, Bartholome de Las Casas, denounced the harsh treatment of natives in the 1530s stated, "From the beginning until now, Spain’s entire invasion of the New World has been wrong and tyrannical. And from 1510 on, no Spaniard there can claim good faith as an excuse for wars, discoveries, or the slave trade.” which portrays the Christian aggression against a race of people who are innocent. Thier only crime was being non-Christian.

The relationship that the American citizens and government had with the Native Americans was a toxic and horrible mess that had no benefit to the Native people in the plains. The thousands of Native American nations that once existed are now all but destroyed in 2018 but it is no mystery of why they are gone it was because of European greed that destroyed them. Early Americans and the government not only disliked Native Americans but they actively worked towards destroying them and their culture. The actions of the men and women back then were studied by Nazis to attempt to systematically exterminate people in their country which we saw as a horrible action that we must draft boys to go and die for, but only decades ago Americans were doing the same thing to the people of our country. Maybe we stepped in because we had a view from the outside or maybe they had the same color skin as us but in any scenario it is necessary for countries to learn the value of human life.

This document presents an argument in a time which the Native American tribes with just bows and arrows could not combat a force that was better equipped like the French or English. Resolving the issue would be to trade with powers that had these new weapons so that they could defeat their enemies and keep their tribes in existence. The new superiority against the enemy would save the lives of many tribal members.

At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. President Jackson and the government had plans to drive the Native Americans out of the south. The southerners appealed Jackson because they wanted him to remove the Indians that were living in the region. Jackson was part of the democratic party. The national politics were becoming more democratic.

1st Week Topic Prompt: During the 1400’s-1620, what was the Spanish, Portuguese and French European treatment and attitude towards the Native Americans and towards the African slaves they imported? The first move Europe made in sending out expeditions was the Spanish reaching the Canaries as well as the Portuguese reaching Madeiras in the 14th century and colonizing them by the next century and building sugar plantations1. Native slaves were purchased to maintain the land, which would serve as a forerunner for what would happen in the Americas in years to come.

They saw themselves as acting in the best interests of these people, bringing them Christianity and civilization. This attitude destroyed traditional beliefs and social values, however, and had a negative effect on colonized populations.” European explorers such as the Conquistadors wanted to convert the indigenous people to Christianity and by doing this they destroyed the culture of the native americans. If you did not convert you were killed and if you chose to convert then you lost touch with your original religion and traditions. Due to the uncompromising behavior of the conquerors religions, traditions and social values of the indians have been lost. European explorers viewed themselves as superior to the indigenous people and by thinking this way they ended up eradicating the diversity of

Washington’s native people came from Africa, Europe, and Asia, also known as the Old World. Archeologists can make a good guess on when they arrived by the age of the tools they left behind. Native Americans arrived in Washington at the minimum, 10,000 years ago. The Native Americans divided. Some went towards the coast near the Pacific Ocean, and others went to the plateau near the Columbia Basin.

The “age of exploration” was caused by the growth of external foreign empires that took control over important trade routes and threatened the European faith. European Christians were under constant attack from the growing power of the Turks. They lost a lot of territories to the muslim faith. The Turks conquered the Byzantine Empire and blocked the European Christians from trading with Asia. This was a big problem for European Christians because their economy relied heavily on taxes from trading.

He also says that they were not confrontational and did not hold grudges. He explains that they were faithful and obedient to their Native Lords and to the Spaniards. The indigenous people were also pure in mind and were open to learning about Christianity. The Spaniards in the Americas were cruel to the indigenous people. De las Casas explained that the Christians murdered on such a vast scale and would kill anyone in their way largely due to greed. He also said that the ones who were captured as slaves were treated brutally and worse than animals. De las Casas was hoping that the king would recognize this and put a stop to the violence. De las Casas wanted to shed light on the fact that the indigenous people were not violent with the Spaniards and were very open to them, while the Spaniards retaliated with violence and

When Europeans first set foot upon the shores of what is now the United States they brought with them a social structure which was fundamentally based around their concept and understanding of Western European Christianity. That the indigenous peoples might already have a thriving civilization, including religious beliefs and practices, that closely paralleled the beliefs and practices of European civilization, was a concept not considered by these early explorers and settlers. This European lack of cultural understanding created tensions, between Native Americans and Europeans, and later between Native Americans and Euro-Americans, that eventually erupted into open warfare and resulted in great bloodshed between cultures. For the Lakota