Essay On Europeans And Native Americans

One of the major points Christian missionaries were pushing towards tribes was their idea that there is only one correct way to worship god (Stone, 1841). Red Jacket directly pointed out the contradiction in this. He states “If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it?” (Stone, 1841). This is a reference to the what seems to be constant debacle between denominations in the colonies.

With his mind set on assimilating the native population into the Spanish, Christian society led to conflicts and did not take into account the values of the indigenous peoples. In addition, Las Casas created an unrealistic image of the indigenous people. His use of this image of the “weak” and “complaisant” indigenous people did not reflect accurately the character of the native peoples, again demonstrating Las Casas lack of understanding. It is also clearly demonstrated that Las Casas is “the savior of slaves” only to a limited extent in his involvement and encouragement of African slavery in place of the enslavement of the native people. It is clear that Las Casas can only be “the savior of slaves” to a limited extent as he is limited only to being the savior of the indigenous slaves.

Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine have a lot of similarities, with one of them being their beliefs on religion. They both had very strong beliefs that organized religion was a tool that was being used to manipulate people. Thomas Jefferson went as far as writing his own version of the bible. The idea that organized religion is used for control is one of the major reasons they both agree and believe strongly on the separation of Church and State. Though they were seen as “anti-religious” or “anti-Christian” they just believed in variations of what at that time the Christians believed.

The main difference that we see between both racial ethnic groups is that white Americans believed that they could strip Native Americans from their culture and civilize them while “nurture could not improve the nature of blacks” (67). Although some Native Americans did try to live under the laws of white Americans, they were eventually betrayed and forced to leave the

II. Spanish and Native American relationship Establishment of the Missions The changing goal The Spanish need for labor Native Americans and the Missions Taken to the Missions Forced to convert to Christianity the Native Americans kept as slaves

and by those too, who profess religion?”(Apess, 6). In this way, Apess argues by pointing out the hypocrisy found in the Christian ideology of the time, insisting that the ideas held on racial superiority and slavery, while not explicitly condemned in the Bible, go against the ideas of the teachings of Jesus. Apess also uses an appeal to authority, to Jesus nonetheless, in order to shame those who would argue for slavery by mentioning that their savior would be discriminated against in American society. Another voice against slavery, Frederick Douglass, not only uses his religion as an argument against slavery, but also condemns the branches of Christianity which supported it over the course of his 1845 “Narrative”. In his appendix, Douglass states “I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt,

All of these attributes that made the Africans different from the Europeans, were used as tools to justify their mistreatment. If someone is looked at as ugly or inhuman, they do not deserve to be treated as human. If someone doesn’t deserve to be treated as human, it does not rest on the conscience of the oppressors when they are unjust toward

SHORT ANSWER: 1. A clash of culture was caused when the Europeans began to start settling in the New World. Many of their beliefs and societal norms were complete opposites than the Native Americans. The European's had a general understanding that their property determined their social status, while Native's personal property had very little meaning. Gender roles were another conflict of interest; the European men viewed women as a more inferior gender and did not allow them to do as much as the men while Native's treated men and women more as equals.

Although Columbus’s perspective is a positive one, converting the natives is considered mistreatment because of the fact that they were converted by force. These poor people had to work the land in exchange for their original religion to be ripped from them. Bartolome de las Casas also brings up that the evil

The Europeans were notorious for invading foreign lands and finding the natives inferior to their ways, usual because the natives weren’t living like the Europeans. The Native Americans were no exception, the Europeans once found the natives tractable and peaceful. However, they knew little about the natives and took their peaceful nature as weakness. Furthermore, the Europeans thought the natives were inferior was because of their way of life, their religion and the color of their skin. The Europeans cared little about the Native American way of life, they only cared about exploiting the resources of the Natives home; this meant both natural and human.

the Spanish saw the natives abundance of gold and that they were not Christian, and they felt justified in mistreating them because they thought they were helping them religiously

Tituba is the very expression of forced eradication of Native Americans’ culture, she was succumbed to exploitation and even traveled across the sea to a remote and cold regions like New England to become acquainted of the misfortune of being treated like a witch in that excruciating process by which many innocent lives were lost and where history consequently acquires as the process of the witches of Salem. Tituba exposes the rudeness of European to Native Americans, but most importantly the mistreat of people that differed from the ideals of the beliefs. People were not only abused but killed. The superiority perception of Europeans, changed throughout the years, but there is no denying that changes were only made because of convenience. “The colonial empires used native people as guides, trading partners, and allies in wars and for other purposes.”

" It was a punishable offense to preach certain religions, therefore, this is considered a moral to do. Religious persecution was obviously alive in the colonization of North America 's

In the Ottoman Empire the women had many restrictions when it came to public decisions. The role of women is one of the most significant arguments in the current day but how does each empire show the respect of women. "Contemporary feminist scholars suggest that before the Conquest, Andean women could be leaders and warriors as well as wives and mothers. "8 Even though the women weren 't exactly equal to men they could be leaders and warriors.

Since their initial encounter with the Europeans in the late fifteenth century, Native Americans have lost a tremendous amount of their beliefs, values, and tribal practices. This loss in social cohesion has been the outcome of the cultural clash, or conflict between cultures, with the colonization of the Americas by the Europeans. The social distinction between the members of indigenous populations and the Spaniards resulted in the formation of new races and religion, which is accounted to be part of the reason for the diversity of culture in the Americas today. Articles such as: “Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico,” “Body and Soul Among the Maya,” “Indigenous Eroticism and Colonial Morality in Mexico,” and “Art and Society in Highland