It was an acute and highly infectious disease and the fatality rate for this unexposed population was often high. 2.Malnutrition Indigenous people also suffered from malnutrition. They lost the traditional lifestyle and their diets were altered due to the European’s growing settlement. Tress and plants were destroyed,waterways were dirtied, and the large animals escaped. The land was no longer able for them to hunt and gather food and they couldn’t to the new food such as sugar and flour.
The settlers quickly hunted and killed off all the large and smaller game that was to be found on the tiny peninsula. The low, marshy area was infested with malaria-carrying mosquitoes and other airborne pests. The only source of water for the area was not a good source of drinking water for more reasons than one; mainly because of the high content of salt and the bugs that were infested within it. The settlers who came over on the initial three ships were not well-equipped for the life they found in Jamestown. There were a little over one hundred men to come over that helped establish Jamestown.
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.
16 September 2012 Relationships between American Indians and European Colonists During the race for land in the 1600s, Europeans quickly moved onto American property, but usually, American Indians occupied that land. At first Europeans would sometimes become allies with the Indians as an aid to survive, but when the Europeans gained enough support and became more land-hungry, they would kick the Indians out of the property. As Europeans moved into the American colonies, actions by both the American Indians and European colonists, overall, negatively affected their relationship. This is clear in examining the relationships between the Native Americans and Europeans in New England and the Chesapeake area. In 1620, the first permanent English settlement came to New England in Massachusetts near Plymouth Rock.
Many of the Native Americans suffered from disease, starvation and death because of the forced relocation to the west. A change in climate and environment did not assist with the relocation of this society that had first existed on the American soil. This tragic incident is most remembered as the “The Trail of Tears”. Furthermore, the lack of compensation, by the government, to the Native Americans destroyed, the already diminishing, numbers of their eastern tribes. Many Americans opposed the removal of the Native Americans and argued that they too had been civilized and should be allowed to remain on the homelands, specifically Davey Crocket.
The language barrier created confusion and conflict for the Europeans and Native Americans in 1492 when these two groups met for the first time. Neither group of people was familiar with the other group, nor were they able to speak or understand the language of the other group. Almost immediately, this created uncertainty and distrust between the Indians and the Europeans. Even though the Native Americans wanted to be allies, the Europeans felt the Native Americans to be inferior and naïve. Therefore, the Europeans decided to make the Native Americans slaves in order to create a cheap labor force.
Many people believe that slavery of the Native Americans was a result of the Europeans colonizing the New World, but it was not. The indigenous people, long before the settlers arrived were enslaving each other. However, the native people did not exploit slavery on a large scale. Instead, they used the captured slaves to replenish their tribe’s fallen warriors or to replace people who have died of disease. When the Europeans arrived to inhabit America, Native American the slave trade changed significantly.
History has been cruel to Native Americans. Slowly, new settlers forced the natives to migrate from their cultural tribal lands to unknown territory. These settlers also pushed the natives to abandon their native values and accept their European beliefs as true. The natives had no choice but to find a new place to call home, a new means of survival and a new way to preserve their culture. Fast forwarding these effects through time, “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” a story of a homeless Spokane Indian named Jackson Jackson by Sherman Alexie, captures the drastic loss that Native Americans have experienced and the effects that their losses have created up to the modern day.
The Europeans looked down on the Native Americans and referred to them as “savages” because their society did not match their own. The many different Native American tribes had their disagreements; however they all could agree that the arrival of the Europeans lead to the destruction of their people and cultures. In this essay, I will discuss the arrival of the three major European powers (England, France, and Spain), their different ways in colonizing, and how the conquering of the Americas destroyed Native American societies. I will use evidence from the textbooks, Indians in American History edited by Frederick Hoxie and The World Turned Upside Down edited by Colin Calloway to support my argument. The Natives in America possessed all of the aspects that human beings all over the world incorporated into their societies.
Europeans Vs. Aboriginals : The contact that changes everything Throughout the 1600s to 1900s Native people’s culture has been greatly harmed due to the fact of European contact. Taking over land by killing off food supply thus forcing Aboriginals to sign treaties to destroying their culture by enforcing assimilation. Ever since the Europeans came to Canada they have been nothing good for the First Nations living on the Land. In the 19th Century, government policy changed from government-to-government relations with Aboriginal Nations to attempts to integrate and assimilate. This change was due to a number of factors: the decline of the fur trade; an end to most of the armed conflict between the various new arrivals; and, the desire for more land and resources for the settlers.