Chickasaw

as a surprise to many Mississippians who already lived here. Hernando De Desoto traveled to these lands not knowing who was here or what he would find, looking for precious metals in 1540. Although when he arrived Indians, known specifically as Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians, occupied these lands. They were not very happy about the invasion that they brought on their land. The Chickasaw’s led an attack on De Soto’s men, many of them were killed in the Pontotoc Battle of 1541. The Indians that…

HOTA Summer Assignment Chapter one: Analysis: Zinn thouroughly believes that Columbus is an awful person and portrays him to be so when explaining how he would cut the hands off of the Indians who did not bring him enough gold or if they ran away he would track them down and kill them. Even though it was almost impossible to find the amount of gold that Columbus was asking for from each person. But, Zinn does not believe that Columbus was the only horrid explorer, he also states that Cortes…

In the period 1820 to 1940, there was a large culture shock in America. During this time, there were several educational, political, economic and cultural events that took place in America including the Industrial Revolution, Abolitionist Movements, the Civil War, Immigration, and many more. As a result of these events, many cultures in and out of America were affected. Cultures in America, like the Native Americans and African Americans, went through struggles that would shape America’s future…

The European’s drastically impacted the Native Americans upon their arrival to the New World. Researchers from Germany and the United States have stated, “European conquest triggered the loss of more than half the Native American population.”1 The three main groups that navigated their way to North America were the Spanish, English colonists, and the French. Despite the different groups of new comers, a very small number of them viewed the Native American people as their equals on any scale of…

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