Settler colonialism

The key issue of this reading is how the Spaniards and Portuguese set about governing the land they had just gained during the conquest. We have spent the first eight weeks of the semester studying indigenous cultures, and this represents a significant change in subject matter—from conquering land to ruling over it. Maintaining power over the colonies in the face of considerable distance, hostile indigenous populations, and ambitious conquistadors, required significant planning, and this…

The title for my exhibition is The Past and Present: Aboriginal Identity. My curatorial theme will explore the lives of the Aboriginal people from the past and present. Many of the artists chosen for the exhibition bring to light, and focus on the Stolen Generation in their works. This will be the past part of the exhibition. The present part of the exhibition will focus on how the Aborigines have dealt with those effects of the Stolen Generations while working to fit in with white communities…

The colonization process left scars physically and mentally on the natives of Africa; scars so deep that have disfigured their body oppressed the identity and confused their mind. There is no denial that colonization changed the face of Africa dramatically, as a result Africa inherited the European culture. The problems lay when African rejects their own culture and follows the traditions of their oppressor. By renouncing their culture, they are doing exactly that Europeans wanted in first…

Do you ever wonder what the driving forces were behind the crazy European imperialism in Africa during the 19th century? Between 1500 and 1800 the main reason Europeans lived in Africa was to buy, sell, and trade slaves. But most didn’t make it back to Europe due to the sickness and death from Malaria. But, in 1833 British slavery was finally outlawed. Unfortunately in the 1880s King Leopold of Belgium, brought back slavery to an all time high. Not only that but also caused as many as 10,000,000…

The definition of crisis in the urban dictionary includes words such as emergency, disaster, catastrophe, mess, trouble, and difficulty. The people of Honduras understand crisis not by definition but by experience. Human rights and protection of the environment have taken a back seat in the Honduras and Latin America since Columbus first led the Spanish to the region. The indigenous people were overrun by armies with superior numbers, weapons and disease, and those left have been treated as a…

Palm oil is in charge of expansive scale forest transformation in the tropics and broad carbon outflows, adding to global warming. As global demand for palm oil keeps on expanding, tropical forests crosswise over Southeast Asia, and progressively Africa and Latin America, are at danger for transformation into vast scale palm oil plantations. In traditional plantation agriculture, a single crop is grown over a large area planted in neat rows with well-developed network of transportation and…

QUESTIONS: A. Prologue: What is Yali’s question? Restate the question in Professor Diamond’s words or your own words. Yali’s question is “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” (Diamond, 14.) In other words, why is history the way it is now? What had caused such differences and hierarchy? B. Chapter 3: How does Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa explain why Europeans colonized the New World instead of…

Louis Riel After the events of the Red River Rebellion and the Northwest West Rebellion, there has been much controversy over Louis Riel, who was the leader of the Metis. In a textbook, you might find articles that say he betrayed the government or you may find an article online that say he is a true Canadian hero. Inevitably, Riel was a hero who was determined to fight for his and his people’s rights to the very last breath. Despite the disdainful views that the textbook depicts, Riel should…

A long-term impact the Spanish had in the United States was the encomienda system. Even though the system was replaced with a United States general slavery system, it influenced the development of slavery in the US which would last for many years. The Columbian Exchange impacted the new and old worlds by introducing many valuable crops such as citrus to the new world and vanilla tobacco to the old world. It also brought new technology which improved the combat of the natives in the new world,…

The Aboriginals faced numerous issues after the white colony dominated Australia. The predominant issues they faced were the Protection and Assimilation policies. The Protection policy detached Aboriginal people from families and traditional land the Christian missionaries and government reserves believed were unsuitable for them. The aim was to isolate by disputing them into homes, reserves or missionaries until their Aboriginal beliefs, culture and spiritualties start to diminish. The distant…