Indigenous peoples of the Americas

groups of people. People of which include Texas Education Board members like Don McLeroy, Mary Lou Bruner, and Cynthia Dunbar. After the readings, it wasn’t hard to see that most of the stories that were taught to us differ greatly from what actually happened.…

America. Created in a time of need, America began, to the European eyes, a new and dangerous place. The New World was indeed perilous to the numerous colonists who settled there, but it offered great potential for success. At the beginning, the majority of the settlers perished in the unfamiliar landscape filled with unfamiliar threats. For several settlers, the risks would eventually pay off. As their survival became less uncertain, the American colonies lived fairly autonomous lives. Many…

In the late 1400s, Columbus traveled from Europe and discovered North America. This discovery led to the start of the cultural exchange between the "New World" and the “Old World”. The cultural exchange is the trade of goods, people, and ideas. This transatlantic exchange had many long-lasting positive and negative effects, including trade, intrusion, and disease. Firstly, the transatlantic trade between Europe and North America had a huge effect on trade. Antoniio Vasquez de Espinoza, a…

The Hopi people, for example, use their language to showcase the importance of corn in their lives through joyous songs (“Lesson 2”). Without language, they would not be able praise the corn for essentially shaping their lives. It is in their belief that by “communicating”…

Portuguese set about governing the land they had just gained during the conquest. We have spent the first eight weeks of the semester studying indigenous cultures, and this represents a significant change in subject matter—from conquering land to ruling over it. Maintaining power over the colonies in the face of considerable distance, hostile indigenous populations, and ambitious conquistadors, required significant planning, and this chapter provided us with a particularly detailed explanation…

Indians land and culture was impacted by western expansion because their land was taken by white people. The battle of sand creek killed about 200 Chaynna Indians which changed how peaceful the Indians were. In 1868 the treaties that Indians had with Americans were dropped so the Americans could take their land. Indian Chiefs told their side on white people wanting them to be more like Americans. Due to western expansion the buffalo almost became extinct from the mass killing of them. Indians…

QUESTIONS: A. Prologue: What is Yali’s question? Restate the question in Professor Diamond’s words or your own words. Yali’s question is “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” (Diamond, 14.) In other words, why is history the way it is now? What had caused such differences and hierarchy? B. Chapter 3: How does Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa explain why Europeans colonized the New World instead of…

courage. To continue, when he was captured, he refused to plead guilty by reason of sanity; an act that could save his life. Instead, he pleaded his case for his people and was determined to show that the metis had been mistreated and goaded into a rebellion to his very last breath. He suffered immensely for his efforts to help his people, a show of true bravery and selflessness. In conclusion, Riel was a courageous hero who fought, helped, and sacrificed himself to help the Metis. After the…

way we came across the Shoshone Indians. We learned about their religions. 2 of their goals are, personal success and survival. They believe that illnesses came from: breach tobacco, evil dwarf people and sorcery. They have a herd of 700 horses. They raise good horses. The Shoshone Indians are poor people. They are friendly. Their nomadic, they travel annually between the Bitterroot Mountains. Shoshone Indians would eat pine nuts, rabbits, buffalo meat, fish, berries, birds, and roots. They…

Zinn states that the expansion of the United States wouldn’t have been able to happen without the mistreatment and cruel acts toward the Native American population. Zinn discusses how America often glances over the fact that thousands of Natives were removed and views western expansion as an all around positive event. The truth behind it is many Natives were killed or forcefully removed from their native lands due to Americans. Zinn mentions American presidents such as Thomas Jefferson and…