Premature encounters involving European colonists and Native Americans in the New World led to different relations between each group. The French colonists affected the natives in a positive way, focusing on trading goods with them to collect profit. On the other hand, the Spanish treated the natives harshly and exploited them in order to obtain their riches. Both groups majorly influenced the development of the New World and its residents. The French colonists came to the New World to trade with the natives in order to gain profit back in France.
Europeans survived in the Americas solely because of their relations with the Indians. Europeans would accrue great profits from trade with the Indians. The Indians, however, would suffer because of their contact with the Europeans. Whenever Indians would encounter their European counterparts, their dealings would almost ultimately result in violence and spread of disease. Based on the above, it is evident that only Europeans benefited from contact in North America.
Therefore, the Europeans decided to make the Native Americans slaves in order to create a cheap labor force. This was a logical decision for the Europeans because the Indians were native to this land, and they were more advanced in their agricultural techniques. Due to their language barrier, however, the Native Americans did not understand the European’s purpose at first. The inability of the Native Americans to understand what was happening to them only led to greater resentment and, ultimately, a rebellion. One example of Native American revolt is the Jamestown Massacre in 1622.
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.
The idea of westward expansion was a good one because it would enable people to live in more room and to grow the population, however many northerners merely saw the idea of westward expansion to spread slavery. Polk’s ideas angered and worried the north and caused relations to break down further due to a lack of trust. At The very beginning of the Mexican war the north issued the Wilmot Doctrine that proposed that any territory gained from Mexico should exclude slavery. This was very unpopular in the south as they
The lessons that McNamara teaches can be viewed all throughout the course of history and should be used as a guideline for the future. Lesson One: Empathize with your Enemy i. Columbus’ Treatment of the Native Americans: The Native American people were drastically different than the explorers of the New World. They believed that nobody owned the land; the idea of land ownership didn’t exist in their eyes. Instead of recognizing the Native American World View, Christopher Columbus and his men took advantage of the Indians by enslaving them and subduing them with violence in an effort to acquire land and riches. Clearly, Columbus should have empathized with the Native Americans by respecting their values and negotiating through fair trade rather than violence and deceit.
He approached the group and realised that white people were talking in a familiar language which he couldn´t remember. These people looked very friendly and Buckley started speaking in English which it was his mother tongue. At first, the Aborigines tried to kill the white people, but Buckley was contrary to this and he negotiated very well between the two sides. He made a great deal that was the following: white people to gave some blankets and food to the Aborigines and they would receive Australian land. For British people to get to the new land was an important issue, while the Aborigines did not share that same sense of ownership.
Just like any other colonial emperor, the French established alliance with Huron native tribe who were considered to be the strongest tribe amongst Natives tribes. Reasons behind this friendship was to make the Hurons middle mans of the trade between the French and other native tribes , since the French did not know much about the geographical mapping and navigation to the locations of the inland trappers , in the process the French got suitable profits in return. In the long run competition became of a threat when European merchants tried to gain access to control the fur trade and in response to that threat, officials from both France and New France imposed sanctions on private companies that attempted to take part in fur trade. In 1649, the French took over the role of Hurons after the Iroquois attacked Hurons. Given that there was no longer a middle man’s role and nature of the trade changed, as a result the French had an upper hand to explore and expand their presence and influence.
Many individuals in the history of the world would flee their countries of persecution from religious beliefs, and look for a better land; the Americas. Though, these individuals came into contact with natives. These Natives had already established their way of life, though it wasn’t what the colonist were seeking; so they cut them out. People now had separate stores where they could buy their goods, but still it wasn’t as convenient as they would have liked, thus Wal-Mart was created. Wal-Mart can be seen as America.
Conflict theorists would argue that this was a selfish act due to a power struggle. The Europeans were the dominant group who were power hungry and wanted more land; they did not consider the needs of the aboriginals and how these resources were needed for survival. In order to achieve their goal, the Europeans acted in a way that relates to the second principle of conflict theory. They created residential schools with the objective of applying their social values and culture to the aboriginal children by removing their existing culture that had a negative effect on them. The government attempted to have a dominant race and remove any diversity.