Zain Alvi
Explain how mutual understandings and cultural interactions affected the relationship between Europeans and American Indians. How did these groups eventually adapt to each other? Confine your answer to pre Columbian society to 1607.
At the beginning of this time period, European settlers were attracted to the Americas in hopes of gaining land and spreading Christianity. Initially, the settlers established a friendly relationship with the natives, relying on them to learn skills like farming, hunting, and fishing, while the Indians traded with the Europeans for advanced technologies like guns and metal tools. However, the cultures of both groups clashed creating conflicts. The Native Americans believed that no one owned land, as
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Bartolomé de Las Casa was a priest who, because of his familiarity with the Bible and its message of equality, questioned the enslavement of the American Indians and had tried to convince the colonists to stop mistreating the natives thus writing about the American Indians in a positive fashion. The Spanish had also tried to force the Indians to convert to Catholicism, which went against their culture. The Spanish ignored the spiritual beliefs of the indigenous people and imposed their European ideals onto them. This disregard for the native’s religion caused the Indians to resent the Europeans and further worsened their relationship (Spain authorizes Coronado’s conquest in the Southwest, 1540). Francisco Garcia de Loaysa, the president of the Council of the Indies, sent a message to Coronado, a Spanish explorer, to go and find riches to support the mother country. He wrote on behalf of the king to preserve his job and keep making a living. The European desire to spread religion stemmed from the Pope. The Pope’s authorization justified the European dominance of Indians and made the natives angry but powerless to defend themselves. The Pope wanted European culture to dominate the Indians, causing the natives to lose their way of life (The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493). Pope Alexander VI was the Catholic leader. He wanted to spread the religion, so he allowed for the Spanish to monopolize the New World because they were heavily
The Europeans relation with the Natives were all different, the Spanish wanted to conquer the Natives, the French liked the Natives and became friend, and the English didn’t care about the Natives and just did whatever with the land. The Natives were not really technologically advance and didn’t follow the religions the Europeans followed, so because of that they were seen as lesser humans and the Europeans didn’t think they deserved the same rights as humans. Also the Europeans didn’t understand the Natives way of life some Europeans did learn to live with the Natives in peace, but eventually diseases and violence killed a lot of Natives. When the old world collided with the new world it was a battle that the old world won and change the new
People from different cultures interacted with the first arrival of the European by trade, fought over farm land and growing crops, and fought wars against other cultures and with the Europeans. In following paragraphs, I will tell you why and how the Natives interacted with them.
The three distinct similarities between European views of Africans and views of Native Americans were that they believed both Native Americans and Africans were a simple unsophisticated society, uncivilized savages, pagan who needed Christian teaching. Early North American travel literature portrayed the Native Americans as savage, hostile,“halfmen”, without law, religion, rulers, immortality of the soul and private property (Nash, 2007, p.42). Europeans considered themselves’ civilized compared to Native Americans due to the differences they had concerning their religious or lack of religious beliefs, their opposing view of property and the function of women in the family. Native Americans honored nature and the relationship they had with
The US in the 1830s debated the relationship between the US and Indian communities of North America. The principles calling for equal rights and political democracy of the people in America were in contradiction with the principles the US was initially against. American colonists began to view the vast expanse of lands controlled by Indians as desirable and could now use Indians in a new way: to acquire land for development . As the rapidly growing United States began to move towards the South in the early nineteenth century, white settlers were confronted by the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole nations, which became an obstacle in the way of their plight to acquire land to grow cotton and crops. In order to effectively
Beginning in the sixteenth century, Europeans made the voyage to a “new world” in order to achieve dreams of opportunity and riches. In this other world the Europeans came upon another people, which naturally led to a cultural exchange between different groups of people. Although we commonly refer to European and Indian relations as being between just two very different groups of people, it is important to recognize this is not entirely true. Although the settlers of the new world are singularly referred to as Europeans, each group of people came from a different nation and with different motives and expectations of the new world. Similarly, the Indians were neither a united group nor necessarily friendly with each other. Due to the
Relations between the American Indians and the English, as well as between the Spanish and the Native Americans, were much more hostile than those between the American Indians and the French. Firstly, the French treated the American Indians with respect on all accounts of their culture. Secondly, the English showed no mercy or reason to American Indians occupying native land. Lastly, instead of attempting to take advantage of the indigenous people of North America, the French established trade relationships. For nearly the entire colonization period, the French remained allied with the American Indians.
US citizens. It is, however, these Americans, whose interactions with Indians, have proved to be the most influential on native relations and shifts in the developing nation. Although the early colonial interactions with Native Americans seem to be focused mostly on land conflict, the results of these interactions later reflected not only the nation as a whole, but the social, political and economic complexity of the relationship between Indians and Americans.
There is no doubt that the Native Americans and The Early Europeans lived two completely different lives. The moment that these two clashed is something that caused a change in the entire country of America. There was neither complete chaos or complete peace. The relationship between Early Europeans and Native Americans was unfair, religiously different, and tense.
The Native American 's encounters with European colonists led to different interactions between the two, as well as a development of varied relationships. America had been home to Native Americans since around 13,000 B.C. The Europeans arrived in America around 1492 to find that the land was already inhabited. Before the Europeans arrived, the Native Americans had lived in harmony with nature and with each other in communities, having strong family ties. When the Europeans arrived, they held different values than the Native Americans. As the Europeans settled in New England, Chesapeake and New York/New France, these differences shaped the relationships between the Native Americans and the European colonists.
The European colonist and Native American relationship are complicated, problematic and difficult for both groups. The Natives they have to accept the fact they are not living by themselves anymore. They bear to recognize there is another menace to their existence. While the Europeans have to understand they are not alone on this continent, they have company. They have to understand that they have competition for survival in this young country. Both groups have a great deal to learn about each other, and want dominance in the
Throughout the course of history there have been numerous accounts regarding Native American and European interaction. From first contact to Indian removal, the interaction was somewhat of a roller coaster ride, leading from times of peace to mini wars and rebellions staged by the Native American tribes. The first part of this essay will briefly discuss the pre-Columbian Indian civilizations in North America and provide simple awareness of their cultures, while the second part of this essay will explore all major Native American contact leading up to, and through, the American Revolution while emphasizing the impact of Spanish, French, and English explorers and colonies on Native American culture and vice versa. The third, and final, part of this essay will explore Native American interaction after the American Revolution with emphasis on westward expansion and the Jacksonian Era leading into Indian removal. Furthermore, this essay will attempt to provide insight into aspects of Native American/European interaction that are often ignored such as: gender relations between European men and Native American women, slavery and captivity of native peoples, trade between Native Americans and European colonists, and the effects of religion on Native American tribes.
Native reactions to the invasion of America relates the relations, connections and interactions that emerged between the Native Americans and Europeans upon the arrival of Columbus in the fifteen century to the Western Hemisphere currently called ̔ ̔America ˮ. The first encounters that took place in America between the two distinct people: Indians and Europeans were peaceful and consisted basically in getting to know each other out. Although they constantly saw themselves as superiors and the Indians as inferiors and savages, upon their arrival, the Europeans were less in number in relation to the Indians. They were in a different site, totally new to them and because of that they were at their best behavior until they could get the most of it. On the other hand, the Indians saw the visitors as Gods and powerful beings as they had with them advance instruments like clocks, guns and compasses that to them seemed to speak.
Throughout history there has been a constant conflict between viewing the interactions of the Europeans and Native Americans as a moral question rather than historically. Many people view this topic as something that is very controversial due to the history between the two groups. The fact that the Europeans practically re-wrote history by arriving in North America is something that should be undisputed when mentioned as a historical matter, instead of the spreading of diseases being viewed as a moral matter. The Europeans coming in contact with Native Americans brought many changes to both Europe and North America that would have never happened if they did not set sail for North America. These changes include the spread of agriculture in both North America and Europe, new trade routes in both North America and Europe, and the spread of Christianity to the Native Americans. Although the treatment of the Native Americans by
By the time of the first European contact, in 1492, European settlers interacted with the native peoples in different ways. The Spanish ruled the natives as conquered people, forcing many to work on agricultural estates. The French developed a harmonious relationship with the natives. The English approach fell somewhere between the two polar European powers.
Relationship is the important way to build on the trust with others. Disrespectful and conflicts would not help issues solving. Native Americans are the members of any of the indigenous people of the Americans. In the past time, some of the migrations of Europeans to the Americas has led to centuries of population, cultural, and agricultural transfer and adjustment between Old and New World societies. Since some explorers immigrated to that new island, the life of the Native Americans get some changes. Due to the negative actions that Europeans did, the interaction between Native Americans and Europeans were have the violence actions by the disrespectful actions, the different beliefs cause the conflict, and the mistrust by the different treatments.