Native Americans, many of whom sided with the British in hopes of stopping colonial expansion onto native land, had large tribal territories relinquished to the newly formed United States after the war. The next 50 years following the end of the war saw a myriad of American sentiment towards Native Indians. U.S. policies of the 1880's and 1890's attempted to force American culture and education on Native Indians in an effort to form a docile relationship. As American expansion continued West following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Native Indians were seen as a nuisance impeding t...

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One part of the Spanish conquest of the Americas focused on religion: on their need to convert Native Americans to the one true religion. ... This was fair in the Spanish settlers eyes because if the Native Americans did not become Christian they would spend eternity unhappy. Not only did the Spanish get the Native Americans to convert, they also got them to be their employees. Having the Native Americans do the work that the Spanish settlers didn't want to do. ... It wasn't a mistake that they settled in the Americas with the Native Americans. ...

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Another impact on both the Native Americans and the Europeans was the sharing of native crops to each other. ... The horse highly effected the lives of the Native Americans by improving their hunting abilities. ... Europeans unknowingly brought with them many diseases that eventually plagues the Native Americans. ... Also, the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their civilization. ... Europeans brought the crops of maize, manioc, and sweet potatoes, which they had received, from the Native Americans, to Africa. ...

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From the discovery of the New World to the developing colonies in North America, the newcomers and the indigenous people benefitted each other by their cultural traditions, but were also weakened by the development of wars, diseases, and political conflicts. These factors would forever affect the lives of the natives and the lives of the colonists. ... When the first European item was traded with an Indian's, word of the never before seen item quickly spread throughout North America, and most Indian's wanted these "impressive new technologies", (Calloway). ... "A fixe...

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The Spanish grouped all of the natives and forced them to participate in their haciendas. They fought many battles with the native populations and disrupted their previous customs and traditions. ... After being put in camps, however, the natives grew apart from these ideas and wanted the Spanish to leave. ... Because of all of this harsh treatment to the indigenous cultures during the exploration of the Americas, many people with the native roots of the Americas still hold a grudge against other populations. If the Spanish never explored the Americas, the native populations would probably hav...

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The French acknowledged the Native Americans as colleagues and business partners while the British treated them as heathens and pressed them out of their territory. When North America was still being colonized, the Native Americans fashioned numerous and diverse relations with all of the arriving countries. ... Both France and England had many encounters with the Native Americans; however, they both formed very different relationships regarding the respect for one another, their social differences, and the acceptance of each other's economy. ...

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For the other Latin American countries Spain's influence and presence was not welcomed at all. ... If the natives of the individual countries resisted the oppression brought upon them, there was documented Spanish law that was set to keep the natives in check. ... Along with the tyrannical European rule in their native countries, there came some of the radical reformative thinking of the Age of Enlightenment. ... They were reluctant to give up on the maintained status of systematically oppressing the native people. ... The human condition overall in Latin American was such that no one ...

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Native Americans The Puritan relationship with the early Americans was tenuous at best and downright vicious at worst. ... The Native Americans, for their part, were equally mystified by the European colonists. ... Although there were limited attempts at anthropology and translations of their languages, overall the intolerance of the colonists set them at odds with the Native Americans. ... Upon being captured by Native Americans she slew "10" of them and returned with their scalps. ... By educate of course I mean covert to Christianity which is an ongoing theme in Native American relati...

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Their pursuit of gold and silver led them to colonize Central and South America as well as the west and east coasts of North America using slaves from Africa as laborers. ... The arrival of Europeans on the American soil brought diseases never before encountered by the native people. ... The manner chosen to accomplish this was to either massacre the native peoples who were left after illness or expel them from their lands. Additionally, many native peoples were enslaved and sold or forced to work their former lands. ... Today America is the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth and is ...

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The first, and most essential is that they are both records of British colonial expansion in North America. ... The third, and final similarity is they both encounter Native Americans. In The General History of Virginia Native Americans are portrayed as only as semi-helpful often switching between helping and harming the colonists on impulse, especially John Smith; while in Of Plymouth Plantation Native Americans are portrayed as cooperative neighbors of the Pilgrims who aid them in their winter of hardship out of pure kindness of heart. ... The final, and most contradicting difference is the...

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The Spanish were pushing hard to convert many of the Natives in America to thier Catholic religion, while many settlers in the Northern region of America were moving there for religious freedom. ... All the native people mined silver in the mountians, and often at the expense of thier own lives. ... Like the Spanish, The Portugese took over the land and then forced the natives to work it. ... These plantations were much like the Spanish settlements where they used native people to tend the lands. ... The Dutch also colonized parts of North America. ...

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The fusion of these two groups with the Spaniard brought about the Latin American civilization (Arnade, 1960). ... On the other hand, the American provided the Indians with cheap good, liquor, and guns (Arnade, 1960). ... This led to the final overthrow of Spanish Florida by the Americans hence the failure. ... Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Joutheast. ... The Failure of Spanish Florida.The Americas, 16(3), 271–281....

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In the story The Broken Hoop Catholics colonized Native American lands and had a large impact on their lives. The Catholics tried in every way that they would to convert the Native Americans to believe in God rather than the gods that they believed in. ... She also took on the role of teaching the Native American children at the mission. The colonizers impacted the Native Americans by trying to take their beliefs and traditions away. ... This impact may be for the better of the natives such as in the story Shadows. ...

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Daniel Richter in Facing East from Indian Country well describes the relations between Native Americans and Newcomers from the old world. ... However some actions of Native Americans as well as of those of immigrants challenge my own imagination and knowledge on this topic. ... Europeans destroyed Natives" culture by paying more money for people than for crops. ... Europeans tools, items and products attracted Native Americans and the abandoned their own traditional techniques of achieving things. ... Detailed chapters talk about different issues of beginning of American history. ...

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However, not to say that native peoples of North and South America did not influence Europeans. ... Beyond the scopes of politics and economics native peoples influenced European diets, habits and cultures. When settlers came to North America many of them were unprepared for the harsh conditions and foreign landscape. ... Practically everyone from all European countries viewed the Natives of North and South America as inferior and ignorant, and they consistently took advantage of their kind and giving nature. ... This contact with these new and strange people devastated the natives indefin...

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Mendoza is originally a man of trade and no feeling; he captures Native Americans from their homes and sells them as slaves to the Spanish and Portuguese. His character was very significant in the imperialism of the Americas. ... Mendoza was a strong and powerful character notoriously selling slaves to nearby merchants increasing the idea of imperialism and colonization of the Americas. ... In his penance to reconcile his life, Mendoza moved to the jungle and asked to be accepted by the natives he once captured. ... The Mission was an interesting movie depicting the harsh treatment of Nati...

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When he met the Native Americans, Columbus was fortunate enough to have a very smooth meeting. ... With this first impression, it was hard for Columbus to dislike the natives. ... Columbus's perception and presentation of the Native Americans was a good one, which was nurtured by the positive encounters he had with them. John Smith's perception of the Native Americans was quite different from that of Columbus. ... John Winthrop's perception and presentation of the Native Americans changed over time due to the circumstances that surrounded him. ...

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The different native cultures included the Aztecs and Mayans as well as many smaller tribes. ... Aside from its primary goal of converting the native Americans, the church built schools and hospitals, provided nursing care for the elderly and mentally ill, and established church based schools to convert native American children to Christianity. ... There were also the Crillos, who were born in the Americas but were still of Spanish lineage. ... The Mestizos were Mexican born citizens of mixed nationality, with one parent being Native American and the other being of Spanish descent. ... Overall...

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It was published in England in 1991 and in America in 1992. ... Because of engrafting culture by the British, then it contaminates the native culture and then engenders hybrid identity in native people. ... Engrafting culture, which has been done by the colonizer, has contaminated the native culture that made the Native inclines to the western culture. ... That is also the reason why Rani decided to leave her home and migrate to America. "When she got her daughter's first letter from America, the mother had a good cry." ...

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Instead of Indies, he had landed in the Americas. ... " European countries promptly rushed to allege lands in the Americas. ... In his journal (1451-1506), Columbus requested the permission to his highnesses to promote the holy Faith and convert the Native Americans. ... Captivating tales like that of the Fountain of Youth, often told to the Spaniards by arrested Indians and slaves, stimulated these adventurers to attempt regularly to conquer the land, as well as its native communities. ... After that, Queen Elizabeth granted charters to Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh to col...

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To be politically correct though, Christopher Columbus brought death and destruction with him to the Americas. He stole , killed, and tortured the natives. ... He ordered the natives to proclaim him governor of the lands. ... Many of the natives never encountered sickness before, and didn't have the immunities. ... Columbus tried to use the natives as slaves but they were too frail. ...

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Being that Columbus and his mates brought with them a lot of things that were foreign to the natives, he automatically assumed their ignorance. By assuming their ignorance, he preyed upon the gentle nature of these natives. ... " Although while judging the natives, it was he and his people whom brought about disease pathogens what created a 50-90% mortality rate across the region. ... Prior to these exploration voyages, the natives did not inherit nor acquire immunities to these diseases. Due to these diseases bringing about death in obscenely large numbers, the Europeans began importing ...

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Through studying Columbus' first encounters with Native Americans, his admiration of their way of life is clear: "They are the best people in the world and above all the gentlest--without knowledge of what is evil--nor do they murder or steal...they love their neighbors as themselves and they have the sweetest talk in the world...always laughing" ( Zinn, p. 2). Despite Columbus looking up to the Native Americans in this way, he viewed their savage lifestyles as ungodly. ... In an attempt to prevent this from happening, Columbus did everything in his power, including murder and tortu...

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For several generations in the American colonies, politics were very archaic. ... They were also responsible for the colonists" relations with the Native Americans and the other colonies. ... This is also another similarity to the politics of today, the people of early America realized that there had to be laws, and that is why the legislative assembly existed. ... It is this separation of church and state, and one's own decision on religion that makes America what America is today. ...

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The assigned articles and the text provide information about the early settlement of America and the organization of a colony. ... Soon, they met a native who vaguely spoke some English, Samoset, and became friends with him. He helped them feed themselves and spoke with the fellow natives on their behalf. ... They created a treaty that basically said they would respect the Natives as the Natives would respect them in return. ... The book "The Evolution of the American Economy" goes into the rules and regulations that came about through the rest of the world moving in the area and set...

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