They would give them items such as alcohol, guns, textiles, metal tools, and pots in return for the elite furs. As the demand for furs rose, they began to corrupt the nature of animals that the Indians followed. Unknowingly the French also killed many natives through illness; the goods that the French offered to the natives carried diseases and led to the death of many Indians because of their lack of immunity. The relationship between the Spanish colonists and the Indians was a callous one and only benefited the Spanish. In the 1500s, the Spanish arrived in the New World with the intent to convert natives to Catholicism, trade, and discover riches.
During Red River Rebellion of 1869-1870, Riel established a provisional government to negotiate the terms under which the province of Manitoba entered the Canadian Confederation. Thomas Scott was executed to show the Canadian government that the Métis must be taken seriously. Louis Riel was forced into exile and ran to the United States. Louis Riel lived in Montana and became a trader and interpreter. He got married in 1881 to Marguerite Monet dit Bellehumeur.
Indian alliances were said to be expensive and time consuming to be preserved. The French lacked many of the advantages of the British. To improve their diplomacy, they would live in Indian territory, learn Indian languages, and adopt Indian cultures. The French even married Indian wives. This allowed the French to enter into a kinship with the Indians, making the fur trade very successful.
Early America consisted of the native Indians and of European colonists who didn’t see eye to eye in their everyday lifestyles. The natives were fairly welcoming to the colonists, while the colonists felt superior to the natives and were looking for expansion. Tension grew between both sides as the colonizers wanted to take and settle on the land that had been the Indians for many years. Takaki shows how the idea of race became constructed through these tensions; additionally, he uses the play, The Tempest, as a literary tool to express the beliefs by Brittan at the time. The British showed discrimination throughout history towards the Irish, for they treated them in an extremely mean manner.
Alcohol abuse contributed to violence in Aboriginal communities, to society disharmony and to the deterioration of an originally healthy Aboriginal population. In the second place, the arrival of French Jesuit forced Aboriginals to convert their religions. The Huron people were threatened with the trade advantages with the French if they did not accept the Jesuits, so the poor Huron people put up with the Jesuits. Some Aboriginal people were
There were defined classes that had been around for years, separating the people and creating animosity between the classes. The French Revolution was much more of a social revolt than the American Revolution was. The American colonists wanted either fair representation if they were going to pay taxes, or to be free of the British monarchy. Whereas, in France the people of the lower-class had been mistreated and deprived, causing them to become vengeful and violent. Another huge difference, and one that is fairly obvious, is the amount of violence.
This is yet another difference. That explains the differences. Thus, the American revolution and French revolution had many differences and similarities. Just one last question, how similar and how different were the two of them? End of Essay Note: The Americans created a Navy out of scratch whereas the French rebels afterwards used their government's
In colonial times, the earliest interactions between the Native Americans and the European settlers lead to different relationships between the two groups. But more often than not, the relationship wound up being negative, especially for the Native Americans. Two areas with negative relationships were the American southwest, controlled by the Spanish, and the Chesapeake Bay area, controlled by the English. In the southwest, as the settlers came into contact with the Native Americans, they became convinced that their every aspect was superior to the Native Americans. The main reason the Spaniards even bothered to interact with the Native Americans was to achieve their main goal in America, to find gold and other valuables.
However, even though the Spanish had anti-slavery laws, many Spaniards shared the Portuguese belief that the natives were inferior to the European colonists. The movie portrays this colonial sentiment through a scene in which the fate of the missions is being debated. At the debate, Don Cabeza , a Portuguese colonist, argues that the Indians are animals and that the only way to save them from their violent, subhuman ways would be to enslave them. Following these debates, Cardinal Altaminaro visits the missions and realizes that the Guarani Indians are spiritual people and not animals, as Cabeza had
Clearly, Columbus should have empathized with the Native Americans by respecting their values and negotiating through fair trade rather than violence and deceit. This relates to Robert McNamara’s first lesson because Columbus failed to empathize with Native Americans and their unique values. ii. The Whisky Rebellion: In the early 1790s westerners in the United States rebelled against Alexander Hamilton’s excise tax on whisky. Westerners viewed this tax as unfair because whisky often served as a medium of exchange and because the tax would make western farmers who were forced to distill their grain into whisky for portability reasons less competitive with eastern grain