Indians saw the fishermen's steel knives and copper kettles among other things, and the fishermen saw the beaver and bearskin coats of the Indians, which they could sell in Europe. ... Soon the French began trapping furs to sell back in Europe. ... However The French and Indian War made the French give Canada over to England. The wars along with not enough immigration from France were the primary factors in why the French did not dominate America. ... The French did not create a big enough population to dominate North America and the lose of the French and Indian War totally ki...

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• Grade Level: High School

First, the Indian race was as heterogeneous as the continent of Europe across America. The Incas, Mayans, Aztecs, Hopi, Salish, and Iroquois tribes were as different as the French, as compared to the English or the Spanish. ... Indian civilizations also proved to be far from primitive with respect to war times. ... The French-Indian war, furthermore went to show the power and sophistication of some native tribes. For England and France, in this war the aid of the Iroqouis was essential, and in the end, proved to be the source of England's victory (Nash, 167-71). ...

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Conversely, the accomplishments and impact of the Dutch and French were not as prevailing. ... This allowed the government to give certain colonists Indians, if they tried to make them Christians. ... Many English settlers died of disease and malnutrition, but things began to improve with the introduction of tobacco from the Indians. ... The success of the French can not be ignored. They were profitable fur traders with the Native American tribes, and militarily, they engaged in several wars with the Iroquois. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Modern historians see even the famous treaties with the Iroquois confederacy not simply in terms of rights, but as part of British political strategies designed to deal with the French and with the other tribes further inland. ... When the British defeated the French, Indians could no longer play one colonial power off against another. ... Indians were "uncivilized" and "savages." ... The Canadian legal system, in the years after World War II, recognized no Indian rights as such. ... If Canadian law had given Indians rights, Indians had rights. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book begins innocently enough, with an introduction that tells us that the setting is the third year of the French and Indian War. The author's use of historical facts allows the reader to more vividly imagine what is being described, and allows Cooper to draw on the reader's knowledge of the French and Indian War. ... Between war, disease, and the eventual anti-Native American legislation during the Jackson era, c. 1830. ... English and French act as Cooper's "fallen languages". ... It is most simply that Cooper's Indians are unrealistic. ...

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In 1820, Chief Cornplanter of the Allegany Seneca stated that the Native Americans "lived in peace and had no wars and no fighting". "The French offered to furnish us with instruments of every kind and sharp knives to take the skins of their enemies heads." (Axtell, 451) In 1879, Susette La Flesche, describe in the article as "a spirited daughter of a famous Omaha family", responded to a newspaper reporter statement of Indian barbarity during war. She countered with, "Don't you know that the white man taught Indians that? It was practiced first in New England on the Penobscot Indian...

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For some Latin American Countries, colonial rule was tolerated because the mistreatment of the population was eventually being attributed to an emerging class status system of mixed races of Indian and African slaves and the Spanish. ... And to obtain the greatest amount of wealth possible it was necessary to mine the metals as well as war, steal, and trade in order to secure your wealth and class position. ... In the Requerimiento authored and applied in 1514 by King Charles I of Spain, it was written if the Indians did not comply to the demands placed upon them that " we will enter your ...

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Gibson, The American Indian, p.9). ... They sang war songs and teased and taunted their captives in order to show that their bodies can be broken in many ways. Among the plains Indians the women were considered superior. ... In colonies such as New France, where European men lived in close contact with large numbers of Native Americans, sexual liaisons between white men and Indian women were common. ... Catholic priests and nuns in New France and New Spain pressed Indian women and men to convert to Christianity (the Protestants of English America were less energetic in this regard), enforci...

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The French later began to trade goods for various furs to be sent back to France where such items were highly adored. ... In many cases if not for Indian assistance in agriculture, deforesting, and the providing of food many more would have died. ... Ultimately Europeans took the final step in their selfish behavior and took Indians as slaves, created war and plagued them with disease. ... When natives refused to give anymore to these new comers, they started wars killing many and taking some as slaves. ...

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Having been portrayed in literary criticism as a giant fish, a grotesque monster, an American Indian, an African slave, his incarnation changes from "a savage and a deformed slave" to the "quintessential colonial victim". ... They pointed out, like Indians, Caliban initially viewed the newcomers as god and was friendly to them, but repaid with abuse; he originally owned the land but was soon dispossessed. ... Caliban was no longer just an American Indian, he also became the reflections of the African slave and the European wild man; or the blend if several American Indian types. ... In contras...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many natives who resisted the occupation of Spanish died as a result of wars and battles. ... The continuous decade long pressure by the priests forced Spanish government to take ineffective measures to stop Indian slavery. ... So they largely depended upon Indian population as they easily adapted to mountains and were considerably cheap. ... The Spanish and Portuguese empires had to spend hefty amounts to protect the ships containing gold and silver against pirate attacks by French, Dutch or English. The flow of silver and gold into Spanish and Portuguese empires supported the administration,...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first English colonists "homogeneous as they were "still had to learn to coexist with the Indians in the feral American wilderness. ... From 1680-1770, the overall east coast Indian population declined 50-75%, with many tribes disappearing altogether. While Africans and Indians had different fates (the Africans continued to exist "albeit enslaved "while the Indians died out), their mistreatment at the hands of the European settlers stemmed from a single phenomenon "ethnocentrism. ... Similarly, the Indians were seen only as sources of trade, and as useful allies...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

On the other hand, during the wars of independence in Latin America, it was very common for Iberians to intermarry with native peoples, some including Indians and Africans. ... Using the term "Hispanic- includes many other groups in Latin America who don't have any sort of connection to Spain or Portugal, namely the Indians. Indians despise the term "Hispanic-, as it connects them to the people and ethnic groups that tried to take their culture away in the past. The term "Latino- is just as useless, in the sense that it accounts for many other ethnic groups other than just Latin Americ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate