Describe the relationship between the british colonists and native americans?
Well, upon the Jamestown colonists landing, they were suffering from harsh conditions. The local tribes of that area aided them in planting, surviving etc. In return the British colonists, who had guns, helped the local tribes wage war against enemy tribes. They became friends through this exchange. Local tribe helps them survive, colonists help them wage war. However, as the colonists grew more powerful and could sustain themselves, the relationships turned sour and the Natives were seen as trespassers on the land.
Relationship between colonial massachusetts and native americans?
I've tried googling but I couldn't really find anything useful. I've got a list of Native American tribes that colonial massachusetts was nearby, but i can't find anything about their relationships. I don't mind if people can just give me some sites they think i can find this on cuz I'll search for it on a site if somebody could give a website. I just need to know the relationships between Native Americans and the Massachusetts colony during the colonial times? Like if they had a good relationship or bad.
To what extent did english interactions with Native Americans mirror those of Spanish and French colonists?
spanish used them for their ideology of conquest, god, gold, glory. they needed the NA to convert, show them and work for the gold they wanted, and NA instandtly raised a spaniard's status, by being spanish instead of NA. English were similar, but not quite as severe. they were abusive, but sometimes more tolerant than the spanish. though they ended up pushing them away from NA land in order to have for themselves. the french were very different. because when they set up settlements they were smaller in number, the french relied greatly upon the NA and had to bend to the NA's terms of trade etc. the french gov't encouraged inter racial marriage, as did the Hurons (NA) because this created family ties and kinship.
Describe interactions between spanish and native americans during the period of conquest?
The interaction was all one-sided. Spain came for the purpose of getting as much gold and silver as it could. The Indians were turned into slaves where needed by the Spanish or simply killed to get rid of them. Many Indians died from diseases introduced by the Europeans because they had no immunity for the diseases.
What were early interactions between European settlers and Native Americans like?
Native Americans and were wary of the Europeans. They'd never seen people so pale and thought them to be spirits or at least sent to do them harm. So first settlements were wiped out. As for the settlers, they didn't know what to make of these people and immediately mistook them for savages because they didn't dress or live or speak as they did. They didn't understand some of their gestures and customs and feared the Natives and took to killing them and/or enslaving them. Early on Native Americans took pity on the European settlers, when they saw they didn't know how to survive on their own. They showed them how to plant crops and cure ailments that the Europeans had never experienced. So it depended really on where the Europeans landed. Some settlements were more successful because the Native Americans in that particular region may have been more friendly, while other nations (such as what as now known as Florida) may have been a bit more skeptical and threatened by these white devils.
How did the Spanish conquistadors treat the Native Americans?
The first conquistadors were commissioned by the Spanish rulers to govern as theirs any land and it's inhabitants they found in the New World. Their only responsibility was to share with the Spanish crown a % of the riches, especially the gold and silver, they were expected to find. The conquistadors used their authority to the fullest by enslaving the local populations and literally working them to death in the fields and mines. Any resistance was met by swift murderous reprisals by the Spanish. Within a few years of occupying the large island of Hispaniola, Columbus and his appointed overseers had reduced the native Arawak population of 100,000 to essentially zero. A similar pattern of abuse occurred throughout Central and South America and southwestern U.S. reducing subject populations by 90% or more and leading to the need to import enslaved people from Africa to provide labor. Thanks to his decades long campaign of protest against these atrocities, Bartoleme de Las Casa, succeeded in getting Spain to abolish the Encomienda system in 1550. After that time native americans could no longer be ‘legally' enslaved but were still required to perform a fixed amount of labor each year. While this repstimiento system was still abusive, it did ease the effectively genocidal policies of the first wave of conquistadors. Ironically, the English and French later justified their occupation and settlements in the New World as a supposed improvement and protection from the “Black Legend” of Spanish atrocities documented by Las Casas.
How did Native Americans and the first English settlers communicate?
They usually both found a French interpreter or speaker. When they couldn't, they resorted to crude sign language and pictograms until usually a native learned enough English to interpret. Most English speakers made no attempt to learn the differing language, and the rapid decimation of entire tribes and tribal communities and nations by pox and other diseases discouraged further direct contact.
What did Native Americans and Europeans trade with each other during the colonial era?
I was taught “furs” from beaver, mink, otter, marten, fox, etc. and that makes sense for high value and rarity. Further reading indicates the Native Americans provided a great deal of ready to eat food (corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, dried meat and fish, acorns, berries, etc.) as they were better farmers than the Europeans up until 20th Century yields.They also trade deer hides more than anything else, with bison hides a close second, for their broad utility in apparel, harnesses, footwear, packs and bags, rawhide strips as the equivalent later on of baling wire or bungee cords as universal fasteners and straps, and material for light and heavy coats.The edible and medicinal plants known to the local Indians were also very high value, literally life or death products in many cases.The Europeans traded them rum particularly (as they’d keep coming back for it while most physical goods they were quickly sated on), fabrics (Wool, Linen, Cotton, Canvas, Silk) generally dyed in colors not locally available, needles and thread, steel knives, cast iron cooking pots, iron traps for all sorts of animals (most trappers were actually Native Americans), firearms of any sort and vintage, gunpowder and lead for bullet-making over a campfire, gun flints (English preferably, French lower value), refined cane sugar, wheat flour, dried fruits, glass beads made in Europe, India, and Africa, tomahawks/hatchets, axes for tree felling, horses, cattle, candles, etc..Consumables to both sides had the greatest trading value as it meant they’d be back to trade more in the future.