th 2016 How might these words have played a negative role in Native American Lives The Indianshave no religion at least no templesThey lack all manner of commerce neither buying nor selling and rely exclusively on their natural environment for maintenance ID: 797869
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Pre-Columbian America
Monday, September 12
th
, 2016
Slide2How might these words have played a negative role in Native American Lives?
“The Indians...have no religion, at least no temples...They lack all manner of commerce, neither buying nor selling, and rely exclusively on their natural environment for maintenance.”
—A People’s History of a United States by Howard Zinn
Slide3WALT
WASI
Describe the movement of people, ideas, diseases and products throughout the world.
Describe the relationships between and among significant events.
Identify the characteristics of Native American lifestyles prior to the arrival of European explorers.
Describe the positive and negative affects of a collide of two worlds
Slide4Overview
The original exploration, discovery and settlement of North and South America occurred thousands of years before Christopher Columbus was born.
First people to settle North America arrived as early as 40,000 years ago when they crossed a land bridge that then connected Siberia and Alaska.
Slide5Overview
Native groups were often described by their European counterparts as the “uncivilized” and “inferior” other.
In 1492, Columbus did not “discover” America; instead he stumbled into the lives and literally into the homes of diverse families, communities, civilizations and empires.
Slide6Overview
Columbus’s “discovery” had enormous consequences for Native Americans and the world at large; it established for the first time in history,
permanent
interaction between Europeans and Native Americans.
Slide7Overview
These interactions were both positive and negative.
Transatlantic interaction increased the exchange of goods and ideas between people.
European violence and diseases unleashed untold suffering for native populations.
Slide8Overview
For example, in the years after 1492, as many as
three million
Taino
Indians on the island of Hispaniola lost their lives.
By 1550, very few
Tainos
remained alive.
Who—and/or what—was responsible for this decline?
Slide9Overview
For the next few weeks, we will examine life before Columbus by analyzing the civilization of various Native American groups.
We will also examine the voyages of Christopher Columbus as well as the tragic decimation of native populations