European Worldviews in Colonial Era MAIN EVENTS CONCERNING AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY (main idea: divergent worldviews among peoples caused conflict) Pre-Contact – development of complex societies Indians were uncivilized. Some were welcomed as “noble savages” and Maize cultivation – spread into North America from Mexico, and supported others were feared as vicious barbarians. African slaves were uncivilized. economic development, settlement, irrigation, and other means of complex Slavery was a reality in this era and very few challenged it. Europeans saw societal development African and Indian religions as inferior and incorrect, and sought to American Southwest – agricultural societies, irrigation, cliff dwellers Christianize them. Some slaves were able to earn their freedom after (Anasazi), Pueblo are descendants, large communities, mud/clay houses becoming Christian (before tighter slave codes ended that). Land use and Great Basin – arid climate, mobile lifestyles, small fluid groups such as the land ownership beliefs differed greatly with the Indian views. The fact that Ute Africans and Indians had lower literacy rates, lack of written language in Great Plains – mobile to semi-permanent lifestyle, American bison, such as many cases, primitive weapons and architecture, etc. was “proof” to the Sioux, tepees for ease of movement Europeans that their views and their society was superior. Because their Northeast, Mississippi River Valley, and Atlantic Seaboard – mixed views and society’s superiority coincidently was from people of a different agricultural and hunter-gather communities with permanent villages, forests, color… fueled development of the view of white superiority. The Indian large communities with complex religion and political systems, some susceptibility to European diseases also “proved” to Europeans that they matrilineal were superior and/or that God was on their side. European culture was Northwest and California – hunting and gathering, some settled impacted by Indian and African culture, although Anglicization paved the way communities in coastal areas with fishing/hunting, such as the Chinook, for European cultural dominance. Gender roles were strict with few rights spears and nets for fishing and freedoms for women.

MAIN EVENTS CONCERNING AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY American Indian Worldviews in Colonial Era (main idea: divergent worldviews among peoples caused conflict) Post-Contact-Columbian Exchange Exchange of crops, animals, disease Indians generally thought the Europeans were less intelligent as they struggled to adapt to the new environment and had strange beliefs and From America to Europe and Africa: examples include tobacco, turkey, practices. Indians were able to identify useful resources while avoiding pineapple, potatoes, peppers, tomato, corn, beans, vanilla, chocolate, poison or harmful resources, and the Europeans did not have this peanuts resulting in longer life expectancy and healthier diets, syphilis, gold, knowledge. Many Indians saw the Europeans as lazy and ignorant. Slavery silver, and other mineral wealth led to end of feudalism and development of was not a foreign idea to many Indians, so the view on African slaves was capitalism not dramatic, however some did welcome runaway slaves into their tribes. Some Indian groups assimilated to varying degrees, including becoming From Europe, Africa, and Asia to Americas: grapes, onions, sugar cane, owners of African slaves. Indians enjoyed European goods such as guns, bananas, olives, coffee, peach, pear, citrus, wheat, rice, barley, oats, cattle, cloth, and metal and traded for them. However many saw manufactured sheep, pigs, horse, smallpox, influenza; disease decimated majority of native goods as a poor use of time and intelligence as it was disconnected with population, the horse transformed Plains Indian culture nature. Indians were highly spiritual with connections to the environment and other elements. Their beliefs on the importance of respecting and connecting [This is different from Triangular Trade… to nature contrasted with European beliefs in praying and miracles. Some The Columbian Exchange is just the introduction of new things Indian groups were matrilineal, but most were patrilineal with similar gender to the environments, ecosystems, and cultures.] roles as the Europeans.

MAIN EVENTS CONCERNING AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY African Slaves’ World Views in Colonial Era (main idea: divergent worldviews among peoples caused conflict) Spanish – Southwest, California, Florida Encomienda – system of enslaving and converting Natives Slavery had existed in Africa for centuries, and it was an accepted reality. Caste System – social hierarchy However, the slave systems in Africa included more ability to earn freedom African slave trade – established by traders than the African slave system that developed in the Americas which became Missions – to spread Christianity and establish dominance in California a chattel system with permanent status in many areas. Most slaves Haciendas – large farms converted to Christianity, but they also blended it with their culture. Music, Pueblo Revolt – Indian revolt against Spanish, temporarily pushing Spanish farming techniques, language, and beliefs all mixed with European beliefs, out of New Mexico creating a unique slave culture. Christian beliefs became a core value for slaves and after emancipation the Black Church movement led the way to French and Dutch – Montreal, Louisiana, New Amsterdam Civil Rights. In some areas, European, African, and Indian beliefs all mixed Fur trade – relationships with tribes & relatively few colonists together to form a new culture. Africans who were able to separate from Allied with Huron and others in French and Indian War Europeans established cultural autonomy such as the maroon communities in Brazil and the Caribbean. Gender roles were similar to the group they English – Atlantic Coast most assimilated into, however slave codes often prevented marriage and Encroachment, conflict and competition for resources family ties from being permanent as a spouse or child could be sold to Metacom’s War (King Philip’s War) – Puritans push them out of New another family. Despite being treated as property, slaves maintained familial England roles. Allied with Iroquois and others in French and Indian War MAIN EVENTS CONCERNING AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY MAIN EVENTS CONCERNING AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY

Colonial Era Era of Good Feelings to Jackson Era Triangular Trade / Transatlantic Exchange Indian Wars in Florida (Seminoles) and Florida acquired from Spain, Commercial ties and exchange of goods and peoples, religions Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears, beginning of reservation spread, philosophical ideas spread, and political systems spread system From America to Europe: rum, sugar, raw materials Manifest Destiny – continued migration and encroachment From Europe to Africa and America: guns, textiles, manufactured Texas annexed, Mexican-American War, Mexican Cession, more goods Indian lands now uner U.S. – continued encroachment From Africa to the Americas: slaves (Middle Passage) Civil War Era through the Gilded Age French and Indian War Pacific Railway Act – transcontinental railroad cuts through Indian Most Indians sided with the French because they were less territory, Homestead Act – mass migration, barbed wire-enclosure, threatening, less present; this was a war between France and Britain Destruction of buffalo(American bison) for land and resources but had large impact on both colonists and Indian wars American Indians. American Indian autonomy reduced with the Reservation system complete by 1890 expansion of British power and territory, followed by resentment Dawes Act – Americanization/forced assimilation against the Proclamation Line colonists declare independent and encroachment and conflict increases for Indians again 20th Century Population starts increasing for the first time in 400 years Early Republic 1924 Indian Citizenship Act Treaties and conflict between Indians and U.S. government 1930s Indian New Deal, more autonomy continued… encroachment into Ohio Valley 1970s AIM-more autonomy Indians allied with Britain strained relations with U.S/Britain in Ohio Valley and was a cause of War of 1812, Northwest Territory- Northwest Indian Wars linked to War of 1812 and continued encroachment Louisiana Purchase-U.S. expanding