Islamic Society of North America

The railroads opened more efficient trade routes, but it also created conflict with the Native American tribes in the area. Indians in the area had already established towns, but the whites wanted the land. In the 1830 the government adopted a policy of separating the whites from the Indians. The tribes were moved and some went west to the great American desert. The Indians suffered illness like small pox that was brought over by the white settlers. This caused 40% of the tribe population to die…

The Powhatans The coming of the Europeans to America was catastrophic for the indigenous American civilisations as the Europeans began settling in North America in the 17th century, when North America was less developed and less populated at the time, when English colonists arrived, costal Virginia was inhabited by the Powhatan Indians who were Algonquian-speaking people. The Powhatans lived in villages and villages within the same area belonged to one tribe. Each tribe had it’s own Werowance…

EARLY EXPLORERS Hello! My name is Hannah Dewar and today I am going to be talking about the early explorers and the Fertile Crescent. First I will talk about the early explorers. The early explorers are the people that came to America a long, long time ago. In fact, they came around 11,500 years ago! Back then the Ice Age was around. This is what it looked like. Could you imagine walking around this! The explorers had to be careful; if the ice they were standing on broke, well they…

Aztecs in Central America and Incas in South America. There were also several smaller Native American tribes in North America that flourished during this time period. These smaller Native American tribes were linked together by culture and economics. This essay will discuss the complexities surrounding these smaller Native American tribes in North America as well as summarize the empires of the Mayas, Aztecs and Incas. While cultures of the Native American societies in North America were…

In this article, the author, Pamela Palmater, makes several arguments and some conclusions. Even her conclusions appear to contain smaller arguments. Either way, all the arguments center on one issue: crisis-level in Canada for violence against Indigenous women and girls. Palmater’s central argument is for an in-depth inquiry into the violence. She argues the inquiry must be both focused and general. It should be led by a group of Indigenous women. Palmater begins her article by discussing the…

Justin Fernandez Mr. Miraya Honors U.S. History 10, 4A 26 August 2016 “America Before Columbus” Response The ancient native american city of Cahokia was unknown to me prior to reading this article. What surprised me while reading was the fact that their leader “Great Sun” was a tyrannical leader when I initially thought that most indian tribes had councils or elder in charge. The misconceptions that Europeans had about the North American Continent was the thinking that it was in a location…

Trading at organized trading posts took quite some time to become popular in the Inuit culture. There may be several reasons for this, primarily, European trading groups had a little initial interest in trading with the Inuit people due to the harsh Arctic conditions. From the Inuit perspective, there was also little incentive to establish trading relationships until such time as European trade items could become steadily available. It would have been counterproductive to interrupt the…

Poverty Point, Louisiana is a historical place that has brought many mysteries and uncovered cultures in that place. There are many historical findings that have made Poverty Point known. Mounds were big hills used by many early American groups, for organized “cemeteries”. Interestingly, the people at poverty point did make these mounds, but they were not made for this use. The mounds were there to have houses and homes on them, and to show that you had a wealthy status. The mounds were all…

As our book states, there are three periods in which early human life occurred in North America. These three periods are the Paleo-Indian, the Archaic, and the pre-Columbian. The Paleo-Indian era occurred around ten thousand to fifteen thousand years ago and is when the settlers appeared in America. They traveled to America from Asia in search of food. They traveled, by following the herds of wooly mammoths they were hunting, over a "narrow passage of iced-over land called Beringia" which is…

Native Americans suffered at the hands of European colonists. The colonists killed many Native Americans directly through war or forced labor; still more died from diseases to which they had no immunity. In addition, the history of colonization in North America is a long history of Europeans taking land from Native…