Thursday, September 22, 2005

Native American & European Relations

Disease
  • Killed 90% in 50 years

  • Young men & women of child bearing age

  • Direct European contact = harder hit

  • Disease = vulnerable to attack by healthier tribes
War
  • Each saw the other as barbaric

  • European: total warfare

  • Indian: honor, torture of captives

  • Natives usually lost because they did not fight total warfare
Dependence on Europeans
  • Fur trade economy

  • Horses & guns: lost ability to hunt

  • Changes in environment: over-harvesting of animals

posted by Jeffrey @ Thursday, September 22, 2005

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