American expansion into the Oregon country was a crusade to convert the native population to Protestant Christianity, bring in more American settlers, and to eventually annex the area to America. ... This interest was mainly grounded in placing missionaries in Oregon to convert Native Americans to Christianity, and in stopping Catholic Canadian missionaries from operating in the same area, which was seen as a threat to eventual American annexation of the territory. ... The settlers brought an epidemic of measles that decimated the native population. ... In doing so, they nearly eradicated t...

• Word Count: 957
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Tribes and nations that settled in the cold regions of the Northwest Canada and Subarctic locations, developed ice and cold cultures such as ice fishing, and seal farming. ... Their populations shrunk due to these murders, new diseases the Native Americans never had immunity for. As time went on, Native American populations shrunk while the settler's populations expanded. ... The age of 'Manifest Destiny' came to be associated with reservation camps we see today in huge parts of the US and Canada. ... At some point, a large swath of the population has been denied their constit...

• Word Count: 2180
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Within fifty years of the Spanish arrival, the population of the Taino natives dwindled from some one million people to about two hundred."" ... Most of the population was present in Peru and Mexico, where the majority of silver was produced. ... Soon, fourteen percent of Virginia's population was made up of enslaved blacks. ... Instead of finding this route, Hudson discovered parts of the Americas and present-day Canada. ... The French also established settlements in the Mississippi Valley, present-day Canada, and along the Gulf coast. ...

• Word Count: 1667
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The fur trade was to be the beginning of something that would hit on more fronts than just the introduction of a nation wide business, but to be used as a tool in the convincing of the Native Americans to come and side with the U.S. as the British occupation in Northern Michigan was beginning to subside, and the beginning of the Canadian intervention in the influence of the Native Americans was beginning to start. ... He looked at the Native American population as the basis for how he could make a fortune from practically nothing. ... The governor was asked to take this step from Robert Stuart...

• Word Count: 1777
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Evidence shows that these hunter-gatherers grew in population size and spread across the landscape at a very rapid pace encouraging the continuous migration southward. ... But a fifth DNA lineage, most commonly found in Canada's Ojiba people, cannot be linked to any Asian Affiliation: however, it does turn up in Europeans. ... GENETIC DRIFT Genetic drift is the random fluctuation of gene frequencies in populations: and migration, sometimes called gene flow (Cavalli-Sforza: 2000: 42). ... American Indians have an O blood type frequency nearing 100 percent, and yet they probably desc...

• Word Count: 1626
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, "Bird migrations made their biggest contribution to Indian food supplies in April, May, September, and October when Canada geese, brants, mourning doves, and miscellaneous ducks passed though" (Cronon 40). ... "Whether edges became forest or fields, the eventual consequences were the same: to reduce – or sometimes, as with European livestock to replace- the animal populations that once inhabited them. ... Because of the fur trade animal populations in New England were overhunted. ...

• Word Count: 1423
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate