Essay On The Pros And Cons Of Native American Settlers

advantage of this to benefit themselves to the winning side or who could offer the best deal. The growth of these alliances did allow political leaders and villagers from distinct European and Native American cultures blending their cultural practices to forge "a common, mutually comprehensible world" on the Great Lakes frontier. The vibrant new cultures that Indians and Europeans forged together in early America. The journey toward this hybrid society kept Europeans' and Indians' lives tightly entwined: living, working, worshiping, traveling, and trading together—as well as fearing, avoiding, despising, and killing one another. In some areas, settlers lived in Indian towns, eating Indian food. In the Mohawk Valley of New York, Europeans

tattooed their faces; Indians drank tea. A unique American identity emerged.
The Native Americans were able to grow their society’s economically, while being able to maintain their alliances with whatever European nation worked for them, as those nations were occupied with warfare between each other. This was a great survival trick that the local tribes took advantage of at will pending the conclusion of the French and Indian war.

The native populations were able at times to make trade alliances amongst themselves in for goods, weapons and furs that allowed both sides to survive the tougher months. There other reasons for these alliances and the formed mutual effort allowed the tribes to attempt in their minds the tide and growth of their European counterparts that threatened everything they had. The foundation and formations of these tribal alliances were knowns as Confederacy’s, the largest formed and most powerful of the confederacies was the Iroquois Confederacy, which was initially composed of five nations, that had the ultimate goal of unity in strength by creating this confederacy allowed them to become a more powerful

force in defense of their tribal lands. The British knew that by aligning themselves with this powerful confederacy they could in full force push the French not only out of the trading business but out of the country itself. As time went by and contact became increasingly more with the Europeans, the Native American culture and lifestyle became more affected as trading continued. While their alliances remained in various strengths with the Europeans, the Native Americans began to seek their own paths once hostilities between the whites had ceased, so as these imperial and local groups attempted to fulfill separate interests, their varied agendas sparked conflicts both within and between ethnic peoples. Negotiators accommodated foreign cultures in order to secure alliances that helped their group achieve its objectives.
This negotiation and accommodation produced a new set of conventions for cross-cultural interaction, which includes certain cultural ceremonies that served to cement alliances and further trade relations between participants.

One example is the calumet ceremony, where European and Indian leaders shared a symbolic pipe to solidify their friendship and alliance. Their culture began to change once they began the accepting of newer European technologies into their society, these items included the growth from stone products to metal goods. The adaptation of many European trade goods was often intentionally modified to mimic tools and ornaments of native manufacture, representing a selective incorporation of European material culture into native technology, the ability of the local tribes to make skillful use of these metals and glass traded to them and to make tools from the breaking down of the weapons traded to them also allowed them better acceptance of European goods. The manipulation of trade goods could also have been social: a conscious effort to resist new technologies or to resist European alteration of the traditional economy. The growth and expansion of the Europeans would have an everlasting effect on the Native American culture. By 1650, Indian populations in the hemisphere had been reduced by about 90 percent, while by 1750 European numbers were not yet substantial and settlement had only begun to expand. As a result, fields had been abandoned, while

settlements vanished, forests recovered, and savannas retreated.
The loss of lands and the pandemic diseases that have run rampant on the Native American populations have reduced them to almost begging stages from even the Spanish in earlier days, “Since many have died and many also have moved to other regions to ease their hunger, there remain but few of the tribe, whose leaders say that they wish to die where their fathers have died, although they have no maize, and have not found wild fruit, which they are accustomed to eat.” For many the loss of crops would later prove deadly when winter arrived, and the Spanish have requested the arrival of stores “it is imperative that some provisions arrive some time during March or at the beginning of April so that we can give seeds to the tribe for planting. At this time the planting is done here, and thus many of the tribes will come here after being scattered over the region in search of food.” The use of European trade goods at Native American sites on the southern Plains during the Protohistoric period was a combination of social and economic factors influenced by group choice. Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of the American country, in fact early America already existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the existing land and culture.
The above effects were major factors that contributed to the ever-flowing downward spiral of the Native American culture and lifestyle. It had profound effects on their religion, loss of land, their trade markets and the epidemic diseases was the final straw the decimated their population. This combination of issues was to affect future generations and the culture of Native Americans and their society’s all in the damaging effect of their trade with the Europeans and their westward expansion.