The Influence of Europeans on the Apache Indians Before Christopher Columbus, European explorer who founded America, founded the Americas, the Native Americans thrived and nourished the land. They had created a housing, government, and religion. They didn’t have the same concepts as the Europeans. The Apache had a unique and civilized way of life until the Europeans came. They had changed their daily life, their culture. Not all changes were bad. It was a mixture of bad and improvements. The Apaches civilization had shifted into a more European lifestyle. In the early 1800's, the relationships with the first white men to enter the region was solid. The introduction of European trade had struck the Apache’s interest because they became very
