Effects Of Native American Colonization

The Indians knew how to live off the land and were expert hunters and gatherers their main food they grew was corn and traded with the colonist by giving them corn and gathering up food for them. Back in England people who were wealthy had no clue how to survive on the plains and take care of a farm and plow fields and hunt for meat. Since they came from the city of England the Englishmen were people who did not know that kind of life. They were wealthy Englishmen; most of these men were lazy and didn’t know what manual labor was. In addition, there were Englishmen of trade who were carpenters, blacksmiths, shoemakers who settled down in Jamestown. It was known that one of the main reasons why the Englishmen settled in Jamestown in hope to find gold, rubies, pearls, and silver and to be able to sell it in England for a profit. Devastation struck instead, within a few months less than hundred died. These deaths were excruciating deaths, and the horror of deaths continued from 1607 to 1610. Some men would find themselves going out of their mind, while others had a blistering burning fever, and some men’s skin would just peel off like peeling off a boiled potato and sudden deaths rapidly appeared, some licked up the blood from their falling comrades as some swelled up so fast less than a hundred from five hundred survived. Many of the colonists were very weak and could not do hardly anything. Some figured the cause of the deaths was from

A big cause of all the deaths is because of the water. All the following in this paragraph is stated in Document A, B, and E. Due to the fact that rivers and creeks were so close, when English colonists built wells to drink out of, water would rise, it turning the fresh water into salt water which was both unhealthy and dehydrating. Also, the rivers were used for all bathroom needs, so in places where the water was still, the filth tended to fester. This was a probable cause of half the colonists dying of summer sickness. Lastly, the main food source near the James River was fish, so when winter came around, and water got cold, fishing failed, therefore people were starving.

Disease wiped out a number of colonists and was very difficult to stop. The main cause of disease was the filthy water the colonists were drinking. “Disease in the early years (attributed) to Jamestown’s position at the salt-fresh water transition” (Doc A). Salt would intrude into the fresh water and cause disease to whomever drank the water. But salt wasn’t the only factor that made the water unsanitary. “Filth (was) introduced into the river tended to fester rather than flush away” (Doc A). According to the colonists’ plans, the waste would be washed out through the freshwater transition, but in reality, the waste festered back into the water due to rising sea levels. Many of the Jamestown colonists were wiped out from diseases, and there wasn’t enough doctors to save them all. There were only 2 total surgeons to heal the all the infected colonists (Doc C). With the amount of colonists sick, the amount of doctors at Jamestown was surely not enough to heal all the patients. Disease was one of their biggest challenges because there was no way to overcome it, yet, it was not their only

Conquest and disease are often the primary negative factors analyzed when discussing European interaction with Native Americans in the Americas. However, with the use of bioarcheology, Historians particularly Clark Spencer Larsen, have been able to learn more about the lifestyle and diet of mission Native Americans in Florida from remains which paint a broader picture than traditional European sources. The mass introduction of corn and hard labor into the diets and lives of Plains Native Americans had a detrimental effect upon the wellbeing and health of those living under Spanish rule. These effects become much more pronounced when compared to the distant ancestors of the Native Americans.

On 1492, Christopher Columbus was the first person who found North American. After that, European people increasingly started to go North American and they tried to survive in the new world. But North America still had many native Americans to live there. So in my opinion, when Europeans found native Americans and Europeans began to comprehend native American’s living habits. But Europeans came to America that had positive impact and also still had negative impact to native Americans.

In the late 19th hundreds Americans have begun spreading more and more through the west which meant people could move out to new land and explore. They could make crops more crops, people could have more homes instead of staying in one place, and they could ding mining as well. But with new place come new neighbor the Native Americans and they had some back in forth interactions with each other. On that note I am here to explain the good the bad it may get a little crazy.

Many people died in Jamestown. The people of Jamestown could not go back to England. “This was the time, which still to this day we called the starving time; it were too vile to say, and scarce to be beleeved, what we endured’’ (The starving time a Jamestown colonist account 1624)

Although the natives might have never made it to modern day like customs, the impact of the European exploration and colonization on the native people was through the conversion to Christianity; death/diseases; and the exchanges and teachings towards Natives. Without all the modifications the Europeans made on the Natives, and also colonizing in the Americas we wouldn’t have mixed race population or event the today’s united states. If the European explorers never came over to the US, some generations of family in today’s time probably would have never existed. The pain, sweat, blood, and tears that led into creating the nation, we have now been crucial during those times. It was unjust and unethical for the Europeans to treat the Natives as

The deposition of their land, involvement in violent conflict and exposure to new diseases, resulted in the death of a vast number of Indigenous people. For the small population that did survive through this period of time, their lives were irreversibly changed, forever

Fifteenth and sixteenth century European expansion and conquest had a profound effect on the native people of the New World. the Europeans brought violence and disease the Americans killing most of the native population. those weren't killed were forced to undergo changes their lives to be more civilized in the eyes of the European. some were even made slaves. however new animals and crops were also brought into the new world changing things in a positive way.

European Exploration had few, if any, positive effects on the Indians. The Natives’ contact with the European settlers led to their displacement and death from disease and war. The negative effects outweighed the good intentions, which included attempting to Christianize and educate America’s original residents. It is estimated that the native population decreased by nearly 50 percent due to disease alone, beginning with the first contact between the Indians and explorers in the 16th century. The European settlers failed to understand the Natives’ concept of maintaining hunting and fishing grounds, to Europeans, land that wasn't cultivated was wasted.

The impact of colonization on First Nations peoples in Canada is unsurpassable, regarding every aspect of Aboriginal life and well-being. Throughout Canadian history, the government has been aiming to assimilate and annihilate Aboriginal people by way of racist policies, ethnocentric institutions, discriminatory laws and destructive capitalist behaviours. Because of this, Aboriginal people have suffered many losses, both physically and culturally. One of the main perpetrators of enacting this loss is the education system. The education system in Canada has and continues to threaten the relationship First Nations peoples have with the land. The connection First Nations peoples have with the land is crucial to their cultures, traditions, ceremonies and beliefs. Colonization and colonialism jeopardize this relationship and that is what this essay will address.

One of the biggest impacts of European exploration was that of disease. Native Americans and their rich culture thrived during the pre-colonial era. Smallpox was among the most common viral disease that wiped out entire populations of Native Americans. When elders and leaders of tribes would die of disease, traditions and ceremonies to be lost with them. The unique languages in native cultures died with the villages that came into contact with European disease.

Since the Europeans set foot on North American soil in 1620,they have had a devastating effect on the native population. I will be discussing the long term effect of North American colonisation on the Native Americans, focusing on such issues as employment opportunities, the environment, culture and traditions, health, as well as social justice.

How did the experience of colonization affect those who were colonized while also influencing the colonizers? Colonization requires the interaction of two different groups and no matter how much one culture or group may be the more powerful both end up picking up traits of one another.