American people of Irish descent

determining factors. Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life originated as a book and was published in 1849 with the purpose of examining the life of Native Americans in the west and the Oregon Trail. The book contained descriptions of pioneers, native american people, wildlife and landscapes during his travels that originated in Independence, Missouri and ended in Fort…

When the Europeans colonized North America, the Native Americans and the Europeans actually formed a sort of partnership and mutual understanding to each other. The Europeans learned to get along with the Indian tribes through gifts and tributes to the chiefs of the Indian tribes. This partnership eventually began to decline and fail when the British and American populations grew in the region. Their presence helped destroy the partnership because of many reasons. The first reason this…

forth, but disease truly changed the future of the New World. Over the centuries, Europeans had developed immunities to a variety of sicknesses. When they arrived in the New World, Native Americans were exposed to a deadly concoction of diseases, to which they had no immunities to fight. Millions of Native Americans…

Denniz Puzz, Jr. graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School and has since been dealing with Native American legal issues. He has been the Executive Director of his own tribe, Yurok Tribe, and has also worked with multiple other tribal clients. In his lecture on February 9 in the UC, he spoke of various issues that exist with Native American legalities, as well as highlighted the issue of tribe sovereignty. To begin his lecture, he gave a definition of tribe sovereignty, and he…

brutal conquest of the Native Americans. “There are other causes of just wars less clear and less frequent, but not therefore less just or based any less on natural and divine law, and one of them is the conquest by arms, if no other way is possible, of those who by natural condition must obey others and refuse to do so. The greatest philosophers state that this type of war is just according to the laws of nature…” (Sepulveda, 66-70). According to this, the Native Americans are essentially…

to dominate the trading economy. When Columbus discovered the West Indies and Bahamas, a new world of opportunities was shown to Europeans. The Spanish arrived and immediately started to torture the Natives, purposely and accidentally. The Native Americans were not accustomed to the new settlers way of life, or the factors that they brought with them, such as disease. If a Spanish settler wanted to seize control over an Indian village he could easily do so without having to exert much force due…

The British-Europeans blood-thirsty civilization in the nation of Australia was jeopardous to the Indigenous natives in the 18th-20th century in many implications. Firstly, it caused the outbreak of chronic diseases, such as tuberculosis, measles, chickenpox, smallpox and influenza. Yet, little did the Europeans know that the harsh syndromes were introduced to the nation, as a result of their arrival. It also made the nation more and more susceptible to the dramatic decline in the Indigenous…

By the time the explorer Bernal Dìaz del Castillo had his encounter with the natives it was not a very pleasant encounter because when he did his exploration the natives were “beginning to die off in large number because of disease and harsh treatment.” (Castillo, 18) The remaining natives became allies with the Spaniards. If the natives were not allies with Spaniards, then they were considered spies. If the natives were considered spies, then they were tortured by having body parts cut off.…

Native Americans have endured disease, colonization, and relocation from their homes. Much of their culture was drastically changed due to mission efforts and government intervention which led to massive acculturation. However, to claim that their culture was buried with their ancestors is a rather ignorant accusation. In other words, it was transformed to fit the view of modern society, but remaining in touch with their roots. To better understand this transformation, I have focused to analyze…

In the 16th century, the arrival of Europeans to the New World drastically changed the indigenous population’s world due to the arrival of diseases, encomienda institution, and Christianity. First off, Europeans, albeit accidentally, brought germs that caused smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and many other diseases over to America. Due to antibodies in the Europeans’ blood, these germs harmless, however, once these germs were exposed to Indians, who did not have the antibodies required to not…