Native Americans And The American Colonial Societies

From the very first interaction, the social and political relations between the Native Americans and the Europeans had begun with much tension. Many Europeans came to the Americas with the intention of discovery. However, when it became apparent that these new lands were inhibited the motives changed, and then the natives were colonized, abused, and in many cases killed. From then and throughout the impending periods of time, the relations between the natives and the Europeans had a few points of mutual peacefulness, but were overall negative.

Imagine a person bought something that the person valued. The person was the owner of the product and took good care of it.Then, all of a sudden, a stranger comes and takes that product and declares it “discovered”. Now since the stranger “discovered” it, the product now has to be shared among them. This is similar to what happened to Native Americans in North America. Native Americans owned and lived in North America for several thousand years. Then, all of a sudden, European explorers came to North America and claimed the land “discovered”. Europeans started moving into the land and later, started sharing the land. Encounters between Europeans and Native Americans in the colonial era led to the exchange of diseases with Native Americans,

Before Europeans ever ventured to North America, the land had been populated by Native American nations that had their own distinct cultures and social structures. Native Americans had trade routes and established complex relationships between tribes. They were not merely heathens waiting to be civilized by the Europeans. Yet, Europeans would use those justifications to lay claim on their land.

Native Americans during 1785-1829 were affected by western expansion because of the removal of Native Americans from the land, white settlers attempting to assimilate Native Americans to their culture, and were involved in battles between the a Native Americans and white setters which led to the depleting number of Native Americans.

When Europeans came to the American continent, contact with the Native Americans who were already living there was inevitable. In the colonization of early America, the various groups of European settlers: the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch each had unique experiences with, and therefore individual opinions of the Native Americans whom they interacted. Each of these nations also shared commonalties in their colonization processes and in how they viewed Native Americans. Furthermore, the Native Americans held differing opinions of each group of Europeans whom they encountered while some features of their relationships with Europeans were consistent despite the tribe or nation involved.

With such a disparity between the groups of people, there was bound to be conflict on a large scale. This conflict, however, extended beyond the colonies; in fact, French Canada and Spanish Southwest were greatly affected by the Native American and colonist conflict. Along with the major conflicts between the Spanish and the natives and several skirmishes among New England settlers and Native Americans, limited trade and prosperity did prove to exist during this time period as well as a series of conflicts, due to the arrival of European

Native American, or American Indians, have a rich culture comprised of struggle, strife and success. For this paper, i will discuss the Native American Culture and it's history.

As a result of the Treaty of Ghent, the Native Americans were forced to a sign series of treaties that forced them to give up large areas of land north of the Ohio River. During the war, the Native Americans sided with the British and after the British lost the war the Americans did nothing to help the Native Americans. In fact, Native Americans were pushed further and further west and were forced to live far away from the lands that they were born in and, because of this, tensions broke out between the Native Americans and settlers.

This would later create conflict between the English and the natives as whole due to conflicts revolving around the territory and hunting grounds. This all culminated into the beginning of a series of conflicts later known as the American Indian wars which culminated into much hatred for the natives within the English people. The most infamous of wars involved with natives was the French and Indian war where the french rewarded natives for bringing English scalps to them. This is where native Americans received the stigma as being known as scalp hunters and gained, even more, hatred from the English people. Once the Americans won the revolution in 1783 things once again worsened for the native people due to the majority of native tribes allying with the British during the revolution. Once again giving the Americans another reason to detest the native Americans. Native Americans reached their breaking point when it finally came a time where the Americans to spread west during the manifest destiny period. This devastated and destroyed most native American tribes with only a few strong few tribes holding out in the Dakotas and Montana. After

During the time period of 1607, when the first British colony was established in America, to the last established colony in 1733, differences in each colony was evident due to the different beliefs of conduct in colonization and government. All of the colonies, however, faced unbelievable difficulties upon collaborating with Native Americans, some much severe than others. Furthermore, the impact of North American colonization affected not only Britain and the Natives, but all of Europe as well.

When the colonists decided to travel to the New World, they were looking for the New World to better their lives. They came to gain knowledge of the world; which eventually they did from the Native Americans, and their own experiences. They were hoping for better opportunities within their colonies such as learning to manage money, to hunt and fish, and build homes for themselves; many did not know how to do these things before their travel. In the New World, they were also able to gain freedom, something they didn’t have in England. Eventually, they learned many new traits during their travels to the New World, which took them three months.

As soon as the Europeans arrived, Native Americans were exposed to new diseases, killing massive amounts of them. The country changed not only socially, but also physically. Owning land was a source of power to the new settlers, providing them with control over labor as well as a right to vote in some places. For this reason, colonists often tried to take over Native American land. Land that the Natives had been used to were soon flooded with roads, bridges, and buildings. This caused the Native Americans to become unfamiliar with the land. The fight for land between the colonists and Native Americans led to many conflicts. Warfare became a common thing between the two groups. The settlement of the colonists cost the lives of an estimated 20 million people2. War between colonists and Native Americans, however, was not as common as trade. When the Native Americans entered into trade with the Europeans, their lives changed socially. For some Native Americans, the Europeans even became their

It was the year 1620 when People from England boarded ships to America to find religious freedom. Bad weather blew their ship off course and they found themselves on Cape Cod, in what is now called Massachusetts. They declared their intention to create fair and equal laws that would be the basis for a democratic government. They emphasized that the laws would be made for the greater good of all.

From the beginning of the formation of the United States the British and French have held different views on continental conquest as well the value of the Native Americans. The English sought to permanently acquire more land to enlarge the empire as well natural resources due to their lack of them. The French also, wanted to acquire more land and, embark on the fur trade within the America’s. However, unlike the British the French established temporary forts and valued the presence of the Native Americans and their teachings. They often intermarried with them to establish unions.

Native Americans before contact with Europeans were set in their ways and were fairly advanced people. There is evidence to suggest that people, such as the Anasazi were living in large city like areas but had to disperse due to long droughts and disease spreading among them. The dispersed people formed various tribes and continued to live relativity simple lives in areas that were so culturally diverse it is mind boggling, especially in the California area. There were around “40,000 Californians, who spoke 50 different languages belonging to at least six language families.”(text, 13) But after the Europeans come tribes are wiped out or forced to integrate with one another due to sickness or war depopulating the tribes, causing a less