Indigenous peoples of South America

race between European nations for wealth and power. As the hopes of wealth and new beginnings influenced the European explorers, the explorers set out to claim their lands in North and South America. This mass subjugation guaranteed the contact between the novel explorers and the native peoples of the Americas. Upon contact between the Europeans and Native Americans, Europeans gained economic and religious prosperity…

diversity of indigenous Latin Americans, avoiding limiting South America to quite simply, ‘non-European’ and aiming to give…

Have you wondered how everything started? How the Native Americans lived? How the Native Americans get their food? Native Americans were a member of any of the indigenous people but especially Native Americans of North America. We have inherited a lot of things from them like the way they build, the way they make clothes, their music, their religion and the way they get the food. They had many ways to get their food but they had four forms that they usually used that were hunting and fishing,…

Bible, the "popular" reading of the bible and Indigenous hermeneutics. In this first treatment, the Biblical narrative from Exodus is used to justify the conquest and genocide of non-Christians throughout history. Stating that just as the Israelites took the land of Canaan, so should the conquerors take other land, said to be theirs by the Pope. The second treatment is rejection, tells the response of the Indigenous people of South America. These people rejected the Bible, associating it with…

georgia to west of the mississippi during the trip many of the old people died because it was to hard for them to keep warm on the cold trail. When they were moved out of georgia they were transported by the military. Most indians tried to go to court to not get there and taking away from their land. Children were killed on the trip to the new land because of the cold temperatures and the long extensive walking. Very little people rode in waggons or by horseback most walked from the place we…

revenue, and they were inhabited by completely different people. Although the colonies were immensely different, they also had some similarities; both colonies showed great violence towards Native Americans and both colonies were very set on gaining as much profit and wealth from the new land as possible. Overall both colonies were awful, they treated other humans like they they were savages and didn’t think twice about it. The North and South founder their colonies on…

Uaxactun is a sacred place of the ancient mayan people. Located in northern guatemala it was first explored by American archaeologists in 1916. The excavations at the temple pyramids of Uaxactun significantly furthered our understanding of ancient mayan civilization. The scholarly article Multispectral imaging of an Early Classic Maya codex fragment from Uaxactun, Guatemala by Nicholas P. Carter & Jeffrey Dobereiner outlines the process of analyzing small fragments of a codex from an ancient…

The Smithsonian writer Guy Gugliotta in his article ‘When did humans come to America?’ explains that the peopling of the Americas, happened sometime in the past 25,000 years where due to a wave of big game hunters crossed into the New World from Siberia at the end of the last ice age, when the Bering Strait was a land bridge that had emerged after glaciers and continental ice sheets froze enough of the world’s water to lower sea level as much as 400 feet below what it is today. Ted Goebel from…

In 1942 Christopher Columbus led an expedition to the Americas. His voyage was what started the colonization of the Americas by Europeans for generations to come. These foreigners stripped native Americans of their land, conquered ancient empires, and started settlements in the continents of North and South America. Some may ask, “Why did the Europeans conquer so much of the world and not someone else?” This is a question that has been confusing minds for centuries. Jared Diamond, the author of…

reshape the way the nation would operate and its many understandings of science. Rusert argues that during the 1850s, racist Southerners gained more political power through race science, although not all race scientists were from the South (they hailed from the South, the North, and European countries like Germany). While African Americans still participated in scientific discourse, largely through the black press, their contributions were not acknowledged by whites. Evidence/ Method: Rusert…