How Did Europeans Affect Native Americans

The arrival of Europeans affect the lives of the Native American population dramatically. The arrival of European conquest triggered the loss of more than half the Native American population. It affects the Native American's community and cultures. The Native Americans have highly developed cultures. Recent research reveals that Native American peoples did not isolate themselves in their own communities. Over the millennia they developed different cultural and social practices, and more than three hundred separate languages has evolved in North America before European conquest. Members of different groups trades goods over extremely long distances. Burial mounds in the Ohio Valley, for example, have yielded obsidian from western Wyoming, shells from Florida, mica quarried in North Carolina and Tennessee, and copper from near Lake Superior. Yet how ever advanced the Native America cultures of the south and Mississippi Valley may have been, both cultures disappeared rather mysteriously just before the arrival …show more content…
These disease spread from tribe to tribe killing them. Smallpox killed many of the Native American. Around 90% of all Native Americans died as a result of contact with Europeans. As much as nine-tenths of the indigenous population of the Americas died in less than a generation from European pathogens (Annual Editions #22). The ecological transformation Columbian Exchange affected both of Europeans and Native American. Europeans introduced into the Americas new plants--bananas, oranges, and suga, for example--and animals--pigs, sheep, cattle, and especially horse--that altered the diet, economic, and way of life for Native American plants and foods, such as maize, squash, tomatoes, and potatoes, proved equally transforming in Europe (Devine, P.5). The Native American are healthier due to the new plant and animal bought over by the Europeans. They was able to grow