what was the effect on European settlement on American Indians?

Question

European settlement on American Indians

Answer 1

There were multiple effects European settlement had on the Amerindians.

***1. Disease***

Because the Amerindians didn't have immunities to diseases such as smallpox, these illnesses devastated the native population. In many instances, there was about a 90% mortality rate in some areas due to disease.

***2. Guns and Ammunition***

The guns the Europeans brought with them to the "New World" changed the way in which warfare was fought by the Amerindians. Namely, the efficiency in which killing could be accomplished was improved, leading to yet more casualties.

***3. Fur Trade***

In the north (the Great Lakes regions, Maine, Canada, etc.), the fur trade was a big source of income for Amerindians. Amerindians hunted animals and prepared the hides, while the Europeans bought these furs.

Note that, in many Amerindian cultures, the role of women was different than what westerners consider "normal." Although the men in these cultures (the ones in the north, anyway) hunted the animals, the women prepared the hides.

There was overhunting, which resulted in some Amerindian "nations" to encroach onto the land of their neighbors. War among the Amerindians was the result. Add guns into the mix and the casualties begin to reach catastrophic levels.

***4. Patriarchy***

Many Amerindian cultures were matriarchal, where women held more social and political importance than did men. In addition, many of these cultures were matrilineal (a family's bloodline is traced through the mother) and matrilocal (the husband moved in with the wife and her family). In some cultures (like that of the Iroquois and Huron), the women farmed, which provided the staples important to the tribe/nation. Women, in cultures like the Cherokee, were warriors and fought in wars. Most often in these matriarchal cultures, women were the traders and controlled the money. In addition, women were the storytellers--religion and history was passed orally from generation to generation by women.

European culture, on the other hand, was patriarchal. This is the society we are most used to. Men control politics, war, religion, etc. Women control the home. Despite changes toward equality, the roles have not changed much in modern times. The Europeans transplanted patriarchy into the "New World," transforming the role of Amerindian women for the worse. As far as trade is concerned, the European men refused to trade with Amerindian women, which further decreased the status the women once had.

***5. Religion***

European religion was (and is) centered around patriarchy. Amerindian women lost their role as storyteller and the vacuum was filled by missionaries. As European religion focused on the subjugation of women, converted Amerindian men made it a point to subjugate their wives.

***6. Alcohol***

Europeans brought with them alcohol, which had a lasting long-term effect on the Amerindians. There are many that believe that, as a result, a large proportion of Amerindians today have a problem with alcohol.

***7. Warfare***

Europeans did not discriminate between man, woman, or child when waging war--each was a potential person to kill. This was unheard of by the Amerindians--many cultures would integrate enemy women and children into their tribe/nation. Over time, Amerindians began to fight like the Europeans.

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These are a few ways in which the Europeans affected the Amerindians, although there are more.

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

Death on a scale the world had never seen before or since. Eurasian/African diseases like influenza, smallpox, etc. had as much as 90% death rates. No plague that ever swept through Europe, Asia or Africa was ever even remotely close in mortality rate. The is why, more than any other reason, the American continents were so easily "conquered". Imagine. today, if any country that you care to name had 90% of its populace died from a disease. Complete and utter collapse would soon follow. That is the challenge that American Indians faced.

Answer 3

1. Lacking immunities to common European diseases, Native Americans were susceptible to influenza, chicken pox, smallpox, measles, and other diseases. The results were devasting for Native American communities throughout the Americas.
2. .Spain began to colonize its newly claimed territory. Throughout the Americas, Spain and, later, other European powers violently took possession of Native American lands and turned them into outposts for their empires
3. Living within Spanish colonies protected some Indians from the most horrific forms of Spanish colonization, particularly slavery.
4. trade between Native Americans and Europeans
5. Cultural Diffusion
6.diverse Native Americans and French peoples intermixed and laid the foundation for a new, hybrid society. New territories for a diversity of people to live in; included Native Americans
7. Native Americans who successfully integrated themselves into European trading spheres gained indispensable access to European trade goods, including guns, metals, and cloth. Those who did not suffered.

Throughout northeastern North America, Native Americans competed with each other as well as with Europeans for access to natural resources, while permitting the establishment of small European trading settlements. A tenuous but ultimately enduring coexistence developed between the Iroquois and Dutch settlers in New Netherland and between the Algonquian and French settlers in New France that revolved around trade, particularly the fur trade. (More trade new settlements and expansion of territories)

Answer 4

Different effects:

1. Converted them to different forms of Christianity.
2. Inbred with them.
3. Brought diseases to America that killed off many of them.
4. Educated them.

Answer 5

400 years of subjugation
Eradication and extinction of dozens of distinct cultures (tribes)
Millions of deaths due to Europen diseases.
99.9% of negotiated treaties broken by the US Gov't.

Indians gave the white man tobacco (new source of cancer)

Answer 6

Formation of anericans and USA.

Answer 7

A hostile take over.

Answer 8

erradication of native populations
take no prisoners
kill 'em all