European colonization of the Americas

depictions such as Clement Hodgkinson’s note that Aboriginals are closer to nature than “civilised Europeans” still defines them as an “other” and falls into the trap of only viewing them through a European perspective. The ability of Morris to show that regardless of whether Aboriginals are portrayed as a noble, romantic savage or as a violent, predatory savage they are still being defined through a European framework – and therefore framed as the colonial other – is vital to the understanding…

Devastating Disasters European settlers, when arriving to North America, would not have survived if not for the Native Americans; however, the settlers did more harm than good to the Natives. The Europeans believed they were superior, even though they did not know how to survive in the New World; many of them died within the first winter. The Massasoit were the first to help the Europeans, seeing how pitiful they were. They thought of them as allies, and easy to manage; the Natives thought…

justification was necessary to continue the European’s actions toward the indigenous populations of the Americas. The argument for indigenous subjugation and murder was threefold: their actions were…

South Africa and Australia are two of the countries that lived Aboriginal and occupied by European settlement. South Africa Aboriginals’ treatment is so different from Australia Aboriginals. Moreover, the role of these settlements and the purpose for these settlements are different, too. However, both South Africa and Australia Aboriginals had conflict with settlements and settlement brought and spread serious disease in both country. Australia was occupied by British hundreds of years ago. The…

The European colonial period went on for centuries and its consequences can still be seen around the world. Colonialism brought with it a huge cost in human lives and arguably a jus a big loss in faith in humanity as so many wrong decisions were made. The time of cruel exploitation and inhumane living conditions for the colonised supposedly ended with the beginning of postcolonialism that sought to settle the issues that had come with world leaders’ colonial greed. However, the conception of the…

missionary societies impacted the Europeans way of how they viewed Indigenous people. Christianity states that darker skin is associated with the devil (Abbott Mihesuah, 2003, p. 59) therefore, when the Europeans saw the Indigenous women they associated them as being evil sex symbols for being topless, carrying weapons and being surrounded by animals (Abbott Mihesuah, 2003, p. 59). Indigenous women were also referred to as a squaw, which is Cree for a woman, however European men turned this into…

see to be, a method of rapid and effective Americanization. My definition of Americanization is similar to the common definition: to turn a foreign item into an American item. This is best exemplified when the first wave of explorers set foot in America. The frontier started all the way in the East for them, but as they kept moving west, they took the frontier line with them. Soon they would start to forget where they came from and their old way of thinking and start to follow what was natural…

most of New England was involved in King Philip’s War (1675-1676) between settlers and native people led by the Wampanoag chief PHILIP, New Hampshire native groups tried to remain neutral. But as white settlements increased, so did tensions. The Europeans introduced livestock that often ruined crops in the Native Americans’ fields, and disputes arose over access to traditional hunting and fishing grounds. For New Hampshire, by far the most destructive raids of the wars occurred in King…

later called “the New World,” initiating a race between European countries to send out explorers to become the continent’s dominating power. Driven by the promise of wealth, status, and new beginnings, explorers conquered the lands of North and South America, resulting in their direct disruption of the indigenous peoples’ lives. Following this contact, the lives of both Native Americans and Europeans were permanently transformed by the Europeans’ desire for wealth and need to spread and dominate…

The European settlers of North America irreversibly changed the way Native Americans lived. These settlers brought different ideologies, convictions, religion and diseases, to the Indigenous peoples. There were frequent clashes between the settlers and the Natives over land rights and usage, religious and cultural differences, and, especially, broken treaties (Calloway 3). Some tribes embraced the new ideas and began to incorporate them into their own culture, while other tribes rejected them…