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Ashley simmons-wilson World history I Dr.Sarnoff January 23, 2016 Per the chapter, offer distinctions between the culture/society/economics of Native American societies and European/English ones. Did these "differences" justify, in European minds, the subjugation of the natives? Each and every group of Native American has its own diverse society. It was very different to Europeans because they all collectively follow one leader. Every nation though separate had it on distinct leader. They may have had different religions but at the end of the day they all heed to the king. It wasn’t like that for the Indians. They were separate in the same areas usually, had their own leaders different religious beliefs and hundreds of languages. “Indians …show more content…
They were still loyal to England going to the new world and sending back goods tobacco, but those who actually went to the new world were poor and had no place else to go. They sent people over to the new world so that they could be “productive citizen’s contributing to the nation’s wealth (Foner, Fourth Edition pg42-43).”England was in a crisis and this gave people the chance to gain there economic independence back. England promised their people riches for those who could obtain land. In the new world it was quick and easy labor and that is what brought more and more people. (Foner, Fourth Edition p.42-44) Land had a big role in America because there was a lot of it. English men believed land gave them the liberty to do as they wished with it. Not just liberty but the right to vote. That is what lured many settlers to the Americas. The promise of a new life and lots of land. Without labor nothing can be done to land so to help their country many people became indentured servants to get taken to the new world. (Foner Fourth Edition …show more content…
He says this in a sarcastic way. Instead of freedom and being treated well by the Spanish, they were more treated like slaves and “even beast enjoy freedom” (Foner, Fourth Edition p.28). The Spanish were supposed to set them free from the uncivilized lives they lived. Instead they brought sickness and work Indians were incapable of doing. When they were sick and could no longer do what was needed they were called lazy and beat. They were seen dying in pain only to be sent home useless. (Foner, Fourth Edition p.28) He saying that instead of giving and helping they brought cruelty and greed to the island. They wanted the Indians to change so badly that letting them die out in the streets wasn’t a big deal to them. It made Indians weak and weakness is not what they needed. They wanted money and power and so far they have the resources they need to survive and power over the Indians. The Spanish had everything losing a few natives along the way was like losing a grain of salt in the ocean irrelevant. 2. Religion was a major part of this revolt. The reasons why the Indians renounced the Spanish’s “law of god” is because of the crimes that were being committed against them. The Indians ask why they should have to listen to a king who is only out to hurt them and better yet kill them. His authority figures sent over mistreated workers took everything they had and made them work as slaves with no pay. What kind of king or god would want such a
To many of the English colonists, any land that was granted to them in a charter by the English Crown was theirs’, with no consideration for the natives that had already owned the land. This belittlement of Indians caused great problems for the English later on, for the natives did not care about what the Crown granted the colonists for it was not theirs’ to grant in the first place. The theory of European superiority over the Native Americans caused for any differences in the way the cultures interacted, as well as amazing social unrest between the two cultures.
Differences between cultures are not something new. Many of us can still see it in our daily lives. Four hundred years ago two very distinctly different cultures clashed in what we call the American Southwest. The Spanish presence brought new ideas, new culture, and new way of life to the new found Americas much to the demise of the already settled native tribes. Already having controlled much of Mexico and South America, problems were rising in the outskirts of New Spain. Secular and religious authorities were in conflict and the ever growing animosity of its aboriginal tribe made it difficult to maintain Spanish control. Though, for four generations the Spaniards had begun to feel successful in their endeavors of New Mexico. In early August, the sedentary and nomadic tribes banned together and overthrow the Spanish authority. There are many angles needed to be addressed in order to see why this happened. Historians and anthropologists have been trying to go beyond the bias history to uncover what happen. In the book “What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680”, historians try to answer this question, some theories hold more pull then others in terms of what and why. Through reading this anthology I believe the revolt happened for cultural and religious reasons because the Spaniards were threatening the indigenous people’s very way of life through violence, exploitation of land/resources (food), and demoralization of their old ways and practices.
The discovery and conquest of American Indians inspired efforts to develop an ideology that could justify why they needed to enslave the Indians. The Spanish monarch wanted an ideal empire. "A universal empire, of which all their subjects were but servants. Charles V remained for them the dominus mundi, the legitimate and God-ordained lord of the world." (Weckmann, The Transit of Civilization, 23) Gold and religious conversion was the two most important inspirations for conquistadors in conquering America. Father Bartolome De Las Casas was a Dominican priest who came to the New World to convert the Indians to become Christians. He spent forty years on Hispanolia and nearby islands, and saw how the Spaniards brutally treated the Indians and sympathized with them. The Devastation of the Indies was an actual eyewitness account of the genocide by Las Casas, and his group of Dominican friars in which he demonizes the Spanish colonists and praises the Indians. Father Las Casas returned to Seville, where he published his book that caused an on going debate on whether the suppression of the Indians corrupted the Spaniards' values. What Las Casas was trying to achieve was the notion of human rights, that human beings are free and cogent by nature without the interference of others.
Each of them brought their own customs, culture and values and integrated them into society. Native Americans, however, were known as savages because the government saw them as uncivilized and uncontrollable. Although the United States claims, it is a free country and states in the First Amendment that you may believe in any religion you want without persecution, but it did not give that right to the Natives. Instead, the government was trying to convert the Native Americans religion to Catholic or Christian. Many people came to America to escape religious persecution.
Throughout our country’s history there have been several groups who have fared less that great. Every minority group was treated unfairly, Indians were uprooted and had no control, I can’t imagine for a second being a soldier in combat, women struggled for basic rights, and many people fell victim to the changing ways of our economy, losing their jobs and fighting to survive. It seems wrong to pick one group over another, as if to say some people who were treated horribly or who faced mounting obstacles didn’t actually have it as bad as another group. But throughout all the years we’ve studied, one group that stood out to me who were dealt a horrible fate were Native Americans living in the west during the 19th century. When Americans began to expand westward, Indians unwillingly had their lives flipped upside down and changed drastically. After years of displacement, they were being forced to live in certain areas and follow certain rules, or risk their lives.
The removal of Indian tribes was one of the tragic times in America’s history. Native Americans endured hard times when immigrants came to the New World. Their land was stolen, people were treated poorly, tricked, harassed, bullied, and much more. The mistreatment was caused mostly by the white settlers, who wanted the Indians land. The Indians removal was pushed to benefit the settlers, which in turn, caused the Indians to be treated as less than a person and pushed off of their lands. MOREEE
During the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Europeans started to come over to the new world, they discovered a society of Indians that was strikingly different to their own. To understand how different, one must first compare and contrast some of the very important differences between them, such as how the Europeans considered the Indians to be extremely primitive and basic, while, considering themselves civilized. The Europeans considered that they were model societies, and they thought that the Indians society and culture should be changed to be very similar to their own.
At first, the Spaniards used appeased techniques in order to convert the Indians but when those efforts didn’t work, they started to use violent and brutal techniques. According to Jose de Acosta, a Spanish clergyman, the wildest barbarians of the Indians were the ones that would need force to convert because they were rejecting the believes in violent ways such as killing missionaries. For Acosta, the literate and semi-civilized Indians were easier to evangelize because they were more like the Roman and Greeks. This demonstrates that Acosta saw the Indians different from each other and it was the literate Indians, the ones that were looked as better and easier to control because of their level of education which open their minds to new ideas. In contrast, the barbarian Indians required more work because of their savage mentality that they possed. The comparison that Acosta makes between the literate and barbarians to the Greeks and Romans suggest a type of hierarchy between the Romans and Greeks and the rest of the great empires that existed. The Roman and Greeks were the best because of their contribution to society but in believing so, it diminishes the rest of the other empires just like he diminishes the Indians that were barbarians. This was a common mentality throughout the conversion process as it was seen that the uncivilized Indians were savages just like their religion therefore, the methods used over them required more force and as a consequence it was going to be harder for them to convert.
The main point Hernando Cortés was trying to get through while writing his second letter was that he is dutiful and working for the King and for God. He also tries to tell of how the Indians are the ones forcing the Spanish to press attack because they do not want to conform to Cortés and convert to Catholicism. The quote “ I endeavoured to admonish them and treat them with peaceable words, the more fiercely they attacked us” describes how Cortés is basically saying convert or die. In his writing, Cortés describes the Natives as “a great multitude of people of such fury and skill in war” but says their skills are outmatched because God was fighting on the side of the Spanish. He claims his work is justified because “demands and protestations
...is as childish and created a sense of superiority for the Europeans. Other native North Americans thought the opposite and saw the Europeans as childish. They wondered how and why they got lost in the woods and were annoyed by all of their complaints. They could not understand why the Europeans had no “connection” to the land. Natives in other areas thought that the Europeans had “extraordinary powers” (Bonvillain 2013). The technology intrigued the natives and once again the Europeans felt a sense of power over the indigenous. After time the native people realized their friendliness was a mistake. The Europeans treated them so poorly that members from the Incan culture said they were sons of the devil (Bonvillain 2013).
Native American Relations During the numerous years of colonization, the relationship between the English settlers and the Native Americans of the area was usually the same. Native Americans would initially consider the settlers to be allies, then as time passed, they would be engaged in wars with them in a struggle for control of the land. This process of friendship to enemies seemed to be the basic pattern in the majority of the colonies. When the English landed in Jamestown in 1607, the dominant tribe of the area was the Powhatan (which the English settlers named after the leader of the tribe, Powhatan).
Like many Americans I initially grouped all Native Americans into one melting pot. During the Haskell Indian Nations cultural day, on June 21,st 2010, the speakers talked about how different tribes are not the same; they have different beliefs...
In Thomas King’s novel, The Inconvenient Indian, the story of North America’s history is discussed from his original viewpoint and perspective. In his first chapter, “Forgetting Columbus,” he voices his opinion about how he feel towards the way white people have told America’s history and portraying it as an adventurous tale of triumph, strength and freedom. King hunts down the evidence needed to reveal more facts on the controversial relationship between the whites and natives and how it has affected the culture of Americans. Mainly untangling the confusion between the idea of Native Americans being savages and whites constantly reigning in glory. He exposes the truth about how Native Americans were treated and how their actual stories were
All men are created equal (Declaration of Independence). Yet, the Native Americans continue their fight for decades since colonization. There is a constant struggle to urge for equality from William Apess in his 1833 essay, An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man. In modern day, the fight continues after his lifetime. Equality and freedom is the goal for most Native Americans. Although securing the rights of the Native Americans are progressing, it is slow. Therefore, the inequality continues at a faster pace, as opposed to major changes that would impact the Native Americans positively. Throughout history, they are exploited for their land and natural resources and severely underfunded. As a matter of fact, the common theme seems to be that the Native Americans are continuously suppressed by the “superior race”, which showcases the prevalent thoughts in America. William Apess and
Over the course of 408 years, from when the thirteen colonies were first founded and today, the traditions of European and Native American culture have always varied significantly. From their religious to their political views, the European and Native American beliefs have many common characteristics as well as many dissimilarities. These differences and similarities are most evident when comparing their creation stories and their constitutions.