2.5 Native Americans & Europeans

9/17/21

Learning Objectives:  Explain how and why interactions between various European nations and American Indians changed over time.

Themes Focus: America in the world

Natives’ Downfall

• Disorganization

• Language barriers, geographical differences

• Disease

• Disposability

• Weren’t necessary to the Europeans

English War on Natives

• Lord de la Warr raided villages, burned houses, took supplies, and burned cornfields (first Anglo-Powhatan War 1610-1614)

• A brief period of peace

• Second Anglo-Powhatan War (1644-1646): ended in the banishment of Chesapeake Indians from their native lands

• Set up future reservation systems

• This continued to happen

Puritans and the Natives

• Temporay peace at first thanksgiving (1621)

• Pequot War (1637): ended in the brutal slaughter of the Pequot Indians

• Kings Phillip’s War (1675): Metacom attempted to band Native Americans together against settlers

• Ended in the destruction of Puritan towns

• Hundreds of Indians and colonists alike died

• End of good relations after this

Changes in the Native Americans’ World

• Horses (and being pushed off of native lands) led to migration onto the Great Plains

• Feeble attempts by Europeans to convert to Christianity

• English didn’t care about this as much as the Spanish

• Disease wiped out huge portions of the populations

• Start weaponizing disease

• Purposely infected blankets with smallpox

• New trade with the Europeans

• Some intermarriage with Europeans