Alcohol's Impact On The Natives

Just before the times of the great Americans, the United States was founded by the Native Americans. In a matter of years, the Natives had their power taken away from them by many different groups from other lands such as the British and the French. During these times of European rule, the Natives had many hardships to overcome, such as religion, freedom, and maybe the most negative of them all, the dependency they had towards the Europeans. Since the Europeans came to America wealthy and wanting land, they had to make agreements with the Natives who lived there. One of the biggest trades the Europeans and Natives made for land was alcohol. This can be seen as a negative impact on the Natives because they were always trading land for alcohol, causing the Natives to keep consuming alcohol and creating chaos in their towns. …show more content…
Large alcohol consumptions caused a great number of Natives to die and also made the natives greatly dependent on the Europeans. Chaos came about in Native towns and also disease. As quoted from Chief Nopkehe, “Brothers here is one thing you yourselves are to blame very much in. This is you rot your grains in tubs, out of which you take and make strong spirits you sell it to our young men and give it them, many times; they get very drunk with it this is the very cause that they oftentimes commit those crimes that is offencive to you…” (108). The chief continues on to talk about why they want to prevent the use of alcohol as trade. This left a hug impact on the Natives because many of them died from alcoholism. Dependency of the Europeans grew as the Natives power and supplies