Settler Colonialism

The colonisation of North America by the Europeans became one of the most crucial points for the native North Americans. The differing experiences of contact between both cultures had overwhelmingly disastrous impacts on the normal way of life. From such contact arose the issue of land disputes, in turn resulting in massacres and frontier wars which could have otherwise been unnecessary. The factors stated above provide a suitable stimulus for a discussion in regards to the varying encounters of the Indigenous North Americans.

America, land of the free, home of the brave, unless you’re not white. The United States of America was built on immigrants, but the more proper term would be imperialists. It is widely known that Native Americans were here first, but they barely acknowledge it. Instead children are taught about Christopher Columbus, the pilgrims, and the founding fathers. Colonists felt the need to kill, annex, and annihilate an entire culture to capitalize off of “undiscovered” lands. As a result, Native American culture is almost extinct, the impact that colonists had on Native Americans were catastrophic; natives were forced to change their way of life and culture to adjust to new conquerors brought by Columbus, when westerners kept pushing west, battles and massacres ensued and Natives were forced to assimilate into American culture. Native Americans are still ignored and are pushed to the back burner. We claim that we are progressive, but the Dakota Pipeline Project seems to contradict that statement. Today, we still aren’t progressing and it shows when we still have a holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus “discovering” the new world.

American settler colonialism is no different than the colonialism in South Africa, Australia and Algeria because the similarities between them: indigenous populations were depleted, indigenous resistances arose, and colonizing culture religion becomes the dominant culture. Indigenous population was depleted in two way: through human involvement and also by biological diseases. Biological diseases killed the vast majority of Indians in the 16 century.

The appropriate action of the colonist in response to the taxation imposed by the British Crown.

The English colonies each had their own identity/name. Despite having their different names, religious beliefs, laws, and economic activity, the colonies all had one common link which was the country of Great Britain. All the colonies had to officially claim their identities by getting a character from the King of Great Britain, and all 13 were generally under British rule. During the 17th and 18th centuries the colonists began to make agreements and compacts regarding unification to benefit the general colonial population. The colonies were striving to become unified with each other, but some clones had different approaches toward unity that did not coincide with other colonists beliefs. However, some colonies had the same specific reasons

While imperialism somewhat improved the lives of the native people in Africa and India with the introduction of improved health practices and infrastructure, to a great extent it made life worse because of the effects of the focus on cash crops and converting natives to Christianity, cruel treatment, and segregation.

Settler Colonialism is a constant social and political arrangement in which new comers/colonizers/settlers come to a place, claim it as their own, and do whatever it takes to vanish the Indigenous people who reside there.

I believe that the colonials and early Americans did create a genocide of the Native Americans. Some of my belief comes from the statements that were made during that time period, such as those made by Theodore Roosevelt during a lecture in North Dakota in 1886, comparing the Native Americans to cowboys in the Dakotas and that, “I wouldn’t go as far to say that ‘every good Indian is a dead Indian,’ but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.” This seems to capture a good picture of the era. The fact that even when offered a higher reward for returning Native Americans alive as prisoners, rather that killing and scalping them, there would still be a much higher rate of bounty

In April 1995 Pamela George, an Ojibway women, was brutally murdered in Saskatchewan. Her murderers Steven Kummerfield and Alex Ternowetsky, young middle-class white men, were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to merely six and a half years in prison. George’s story is one of the many Indigenous women who have been murdered or missing over the past years. There are over 580 cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women, close to half are put aside and left unsolved. Only 53% of these cases have lead to charges of homicide (Klement 8). Drastically, statistics indicate that Aboriginals are faced with more hardships throughout their life compared to the average Canadian. Indigenous groups, particularly women, suffer from a lower rate of education, higher suicide rates and an array of health risks. This paper will examine the role settler colonization history has played in perpetuating conditions for violence to indigenous women, many of which are still experienced today. This will be accomplished by first assessing the history of settler colonization and its negative repercussions. Secondly, it will use Sherene Razak’s concept of “spatial segregation,” to illustrate how state institutions have facilitated violence through space, race and the law. Lastly, this paper will use evidence from the film “Finding Dawn” to further demonstrate how violence towards indigenous women is institutionally produced.

The founding of the New World fascinated many Europeans because of the possibilities of the economic, political, and social growth. Europeans packed their belongings and boarded the boat to new beginnings. Arriving in the Americas was not what they had expected. Already pre-occupied in the land, were the Native Americans. The Native Americans refused the Europeans colonization in the America’s, but not all colonies in the Europe just wanted to colonize with the Natives. The intentions of the Europeans colonies were all different, as the Dutch solely came for business transactions. The Dutch business transactions resulted in the change of economic, political, and social movements, changing the lives of the Native’s.

Essay Question # 2 In the United States, the experiences of Immigrants have been ever changing and varied. Different frameworks have been applied to specific time periods of immigration and unique groups. However, Internal Colonialism and Cultural Pluralism can best describe the experiences of Immigrants overall in the United States.

The history of Colonial North America focuses predominantly on the endeavors of England, France, and Spain to subdue the native populace and gain control of the continent. European colonist crossed the Atlantic for various reasons, and the countries from which they came approached colonization differently. How each European nation approached colonization directly affected many aspects of life in their respective colonies. These different approaches included the relationship with Native Americans, local governmental structure, locations of the colonies themselves, economic activities, religion, and even population growth. Each colony approached these areas differently creating both advantages and disadvantages that seriously affected their

Racial citizenship was greatly changed during the era of the civil war, and the post-civil war. Throughout the war, the whole dynamic of the racial hierarchy of the United States and especially the former Confederate states changed drastically. The main idea that changed throughout the time period was the creation of an equal white race that was a superior to all blacks.

The purposes of colonialism included economic exploitation of the colony's natural resources, creation of new markets for the colonizer, and extension of the colonizer's way of life beyond its national borders.

Colonialism is a practice of domination, control by one power over a dependent area or people. According to Oxford Dictionary, colonialism is the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. Meanwhile, post colonialism is a postcolonial study that analyzes the impacts of colonization, especially during the aftermath of a colonization. Post colonialism speaks about the human consequences of external control and economic exploitation of a native people and its lands.