The Native American 's Society

The future of Native Americans is unstable. With a lot of their social legacy destroyed forever, many have totally relinquished their authentic roots and have absorbed totally into American culture. The number of inhabitants in Native Americans is consistently declining, with their numbers falling according to registration taken in the course of recent years. younger generations of Native Americans end up moving out of reservations in bigger numbers each year. These youthful Natives are the minority in any community through out the world and they enter outside of a reservation, and they regularly wed non-native American

In the first section of the book, he mentions Christians first rather than the Spaniard. Las Casas would never imagine that Christians can commit such cruelties to the indigenous people. When voyaging to the New World, Hispaniola was the first land to be demolished and substantially reduce the population of Indians through the hands of Christians. In this excerpt, Casas documents all the things he sees. He states that Christians began subjugating women and children and taking them away for ill-use. They would also take their food that was earned by labor and toil (Casper and Davies 10). These acts would eventually lead the Indians to hide their food as well as women and children. Some would migrate to the mountains. Yet, Christians continued to act harshly attacking the Indians until they arrive at the village nobles, who they also misuse. Casas describes the Christians behaviors as “temerity and shamelessness” (10). He also affirms that these actions lead the Indians to expel the Christians from their lands. However, Indian weapons were ineffective against the Christians because they are "very weak and of little service in offense and still less in defense" and that it is for this reason that "the wars of Indians against each other are little more than games played by children" (10). I

When the Europeans arrived in the Americas they were looking for riches, spices, and new trade routes to India. When they found this new world and the Native Americans that lived there, they deliberately mistreated them. Looked at as obstructions, the Natives were driven from their land and homes and pushed west. Europeans that encountered the Native Americans had different ideas about them depending on their political and religious beliefs but none were positive. Those ideas ranged from pity for them as non-Christians to be converted (Doc. A2) and treated as children to a lower status of human to be taken advantage of for profits. The Natives were forced to mine precious metals, and farm sugar cane and tobacco. They were not viewed or treated as equal persons. They were considered part of the wild land to be conquered, enslaved, killed, and beaten into cooperation.

The approaches Britain and Spain had towards colonization were reflected in their treatment of Native Americans. Ultimately, both countries were primarily interested in the expansion of their empires, the enrichment of their economies and their own political power, and their treatment of the natives is indicative of these aims. As Spain’s only purpose for colonization was to conquer land for their empire, the

This shows the Spaniards being cognizant of the Native struggle and being advantageous (Document B). In document E, according to Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese merchant, The King of Portugal believes that anybody who doesn't believe or obey him will be destroyed and taken over. In 1514, the King of Portugal took over a proud king from the East coast of Africa by force and killed and captured many people. In 1519, Hernan Cortes wrote to King Charles V of Spain saying that he stumbled across a large town filled with innocent women and children and he proceeded to do them harm and treat them like animals and take over the town with the help of God. This lead to the people recognizing the power of God, leaving them hopeless and hostile (Document F). In 1494, Christopher Columbus stumbled upon a new land called Hispania, which is an Island located in present day Haiti and back then, just a land in the New World. Columbus describes to the to the Spanish Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, that this Island is filled with products that can benefit the Spanish such as honey, iron, plains, fields, and land for building houses (Document C). This message presents the ambition that the Spanish had only two years after

Our nation’s history has been deep rooted in the conflict involving Native Americans, ever since the beginning of America and it is one hard to get rid of even as the days go by. The impact of colonialism can be seen in Native American communities even today, and it can only be understood through a cultural perspective once you experience it. Aaron Huey, who is a photographer, went to Pine Ridge reservation and it led him to document the poverty and issues that the Sioux Indians go through as a result of the United States government’s long term actions and policies against them. One must question all sources regarding these topics because there is a lot of biased and misinformation about Native American struggles, and sometimes schools do not thoroughly teach the truth so students can get an insight. There are also different sociological perspectives in this conflict, along with many differing opinions on how to approach the problem and deal with it. This is where ideas clash because people believe their views are right regarding how to handle it.

The first interactions seemed quite peaceful between Christopher Columbus and Native Americans. He only sought to see how they lived, learn culture, and bring back several of them to show the King and Queen of Spain. He found many useful resources on these islands he first landed on. Once all of Europe had heard of this everyone was in a hurry to reach the Americas. All of Europe was racing for power, land, and recourses, and the only thing standing between them and that power was Native Americans and the Atlantic Ocean.

How did the Native American people groups who shaped North America for centuries become reduced to stereotypes portrayed in movies and other media? What is the place for advocacy and social justice ministries in these communities? These questions captured my attention during my education at Taylor University. At Taylor, most students are not aware of Native American tribes beyond the media portrayal in westerns or sports logos. As I conducted research for the Butler Undergraduate Research conference and the Emmaus Initiative, a nonprofit tracking religious freedom for Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the United States, it became evident the blind spot regarding Native American studies and advocacy was a national trend. During my future

Europeans arrived in the Americas around the 1400’s. They explored the world looking for new trade routes and land. When the Europeans arrived in the Americas, they began to colonize. They soon discovered that they weren’t alone, and learned that the Native Americans were living on the land which the Europeans (specifically the Spanish) wanted to colonize. The Spanish noticed that the Indians were not technologically advanced, so they coercively took control of the Native American’s lives.

The misconception that the Indians had about the Spanish is that they never believed that they would come and rape the naïvety from them and brutally kill men, women and children in the name of God. Many are to believe that the slave trade originated from some of the Spanish conquistadors (i.e. through someone such as Christopher Columbus when he founded the “New World” and there invested in the indigenous peoples’ lives). Looking into each Spanish conquistador’s life it is seen and read that they learnt their way of life through following others. The chain connecting each conquistadors and many other Spaniards lifestyles could be seen through their own history and in repeating it the same downfall has been met. Although the Spanish conquistadors have done many terrible things and created horrific events through history there is still a respect of sorts for their courage and audacity to live in such

In an attempt to get to Asia, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. His efforts were funded by Spain because, like Columbus, they wanted gold, wealth, and power. Columbus had ideas that Earth was smaller than it really was and was also unaware of the land mass that is the present day Americas. So when he thought he arrived at Asia, he was really no where close. During his expedition, Columbus and his crew came across many Native Americans, specifically, the Arawaks. They treated the natives terribly even when the natives were very kind to them. They took the natives as slaves, inflicted diseases upon them and tricked them. The natives offered them many things upon their arrival to

The first settlements in America thrived by themselves before European contact. However, many things would change on that fateful day in 1492. The Spanish conquistadores superior military technology and tactics caused newly conquered Indians to become alienated in colonial societies due to ethnicity and religion. The social hierarchy caused Indians to stand in the lower classes and to continue to be under pressure from Catholic friars to convert. To Spaniards, the Indians were barbarians in need of a way to become civilized and the Spanish were more that willing to “help”.

Native American societies were changed when the Europeans introduced diseases and it decreased much of the native population. The goals of the Spanish were to promote God, seek glory, and gold. The Spanish set up colonies and tried to convert natives to Catholicism, most of the time through violent actions. Some native american societies resisted change by refusing to convert

The conquistadors ventured to the America’s in approximately the 1500s. During the process of settlement the conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortez encountered numerous natives who originally inhabited the land. When two unfamiliar civilizations encounter each other the end result can be unpredictable. Each human being has an unique thought process. Therefore numerous spaniards viewed the native americans as a peaceful, and kind civilization, while on the other side of the bridge, several spaniards like Hernan Cortez viewed the indians as a threat to their wellbeing. However, Bartolome de las Casas viewed the native Indians in a different manner. Bartolome de las Casas viewed the natives as a genuinely kind civilization, therefore the people

What we do know is they worship gods and spirits that inhabited natural objects. It is likely that they had no concept of slavery and were naively welcoming to the Europeans; Christopher Columbus himself said the Tainos Indians were friendly people. Columbus got the impression that the Indians thought him and his crew were sent from heaven. Indians had no use for the gold and treasures the Europeans had come to search for in the New World so they had no reason to worry that the new comers had come to plunder their riches. Instead the Indians probably gave gifts and tributes to the new arrivals. In the conquest of Mexico a young Spanish explorer by the name of Hernan Cortez deceived the native Mexica or Aztecs as they are commonly called into gifting him large quantities of food as wells as a fine golden disk. Playing on the Mexica’s belief that Cortez and his men had been sent by one of their gods, Cortez put on quite a show to convince the natives that he was in fact sent by the gods. It is apparent that the Europeans played on the beliefs of the natives to take advantage of, enslave and rob these people of not only their possessions but their lives as