This essay shows the resistance and accomadation of Native Americans on Europeans. Shows the devastating affects of each style of conquest. Reference to James Wilson- "The earth shall Weep"

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:14:43
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 7 pages (2051 words)
Cultural Attack The Native Americans were living a peaceful and fulfilling life living off the land until the Europeans arrived. Most of the conquest was through war but they were also able to conquer culturally. Many tribes resisted and responded to the Europeans in different ways. Accommodation was always first, but when accommodation fails, resistance is always the last resource. Each impact had its devastating affects. The Europeans migrated in to America, established trade and …
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…strong and powerful for the Indians. They took their land and turned it into government property. They took their trade culture and gave them an economic society. They banished their religion and gave them missions. Treaties as lives were broken. Native Americans tried to resist the European cultural conquest but they were just too powerful. If European diseases did not kill a Native American Indian the European cultural conquest would have, with or without resistance.
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