Besides helping to facilitate self-sufficiency, relations with Native Americans helped shape the manner in which leading colonists approached the Revolution. Specifically, conservative members of the southern elite such as Henry Laurens and John Rutledge identified their patriotism with greater tolerance ...
It is quite clear that Columbus is a controversial figure in American history; many different views of the “Admiral of the Ocean” are presented to the American public. For starters Columbus Day is still viewed as a national holiday; on the other side many people are strongly rooted against...
Performers with Native American parentage have occasionally appeared in American popular music, most notably Shania Twain (ethnically European, but raised by a First Nations adoptive father), Robbie Robertson, Rita Coolidge, Wayne Newton, and Redbone (band). Some, such as John Trudell have used m...
She was among the first of some 200 known cases of white captives, many of whom became pawns in an ongoing power struggle that included European powers, American colonists and Indigenous peoples straining to maintain their population, their land and way of life. While Mary was ultimately ...
Native American. The Fort-period assemblage matches a record of regular, bilateral exchanges involving the movement of copper and glass beads to native communities, while ceramic vessels (containing food) and wild fauna flowed from Native Americans to the colonists (Mallios and Straube2000, p. 29...
All imported by the Europeans colonists. Smallpox was instrumental in killing the American Indians GENOCIDE OF NATIVE AMERICANS: A SOCIOLOGICAL VIEW The term Genocide derives from the Latin (genos=race, tribe; cide=killing) and means literally the killing or murder of an entire tribe or people...
Native American women also had more influence outside the home than European women did. Where would the sentence best fit?Click on a square sentence to the passage. 10 Native Americans and European colonists differed sharply in their approach to land and to social and economic relations in their...
Native American Totem Pole, 1895. One of the first treaties between colonists and Native Americans was signed in 1621 when the Plymouth Pilgrims enacted a peace pact with the Wampanoag Tribe, with the aid of Squanto, an English speaking Native American. In the 1752 census, 147 “Indian” slav...
Why was Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a significant place for American Indians? Why did the Bantu migrate to South Africa? Why were English colonists generally unsuccessful at enslaving Native Americans? Why did the Five Civilized Tribes side with the Confederacy?
The nature of French-Indian interaction on the Gulf Coast contrasts with other areas of eastern North America at that time, such as the Mississippi Valley and the Northeast, where relations often were more fragile and alliances went with the best offer....