Beyond 1492-Native Reactions to Invasion

Beyond 1492 - Original correspondence to aggression The author starts this chapter by briefly introducing the information sources that form the basis of this chapter. He introduced his article for a meeting at Vanderbilt University. The foundation of this paper is the events and problems that must be survived after native Americans and Europeans are found in the United States. This article begins with "Columbia's encounter with two old world cultures" (98). These two old worlds are the United States and Europe.

From 1492 when Christopher Columbus was told that he found America, he began fateful conquest. During the next few centuries the complex native American civilization was destroyed. British historian Mark Cork wrote about his reliable estimate of the death toll on his "Blood River" as follows: In Inca, in Brazil, due to Portuguese conquest, the number of Indians has decreased from about 2,500,000 to 225,000 from the previous Columbian era In the northern part of Mexico ... Indigenous people declined from the first 80,000 to the last person North and South Several historians in America will lose a total of 100 million people. "

The period before Columbus was the time before Christopher Columbus visited the United States in 1492. At that time, the American Indians lived in the land of America. Native American in the eastern United States looked for hunting deer and Northwest's native American built a house called Pueblo with South America's native American planting corn. Native Americans killed water buffalo. About 1000 years ago, many people thought that Viking visited Newfoundland. But they did not settle there

Have you thought about what it is like to become a native American during the European invasion? In American history, Native American has been treated unreasonably. The U.S. government abuses indigenous peoples by lying to indigenous peoples and treating them as foreigners. After years of struggle for freedom, indigenous peoples did not achieve the goal of freedom. Tears Road was the most tragic event in American history due to the misunderstanding of President Andrew Jackson 's "banishment bill" in the 1930' s.