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    their expansion, the Natives of North America. These Native Americans, although man had prophesied the arrival of the pale skins, were put in a tense situation with these newcomers from across the Atlantic Ocean. They were forced to change their way of living and had no choice but to try and accommodate, so as to appease the European settlers. The settlers however, mostly saw no reason to understand the culture and ways of the Native Americans. Instead, they converted these peoples’ religions, colonized

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    precious materials that lay beneath the surface (IMDB). Avatar by James Cameron symbolizes European’s exploitation of Native American lands by portraying the aggressive exploration of a new world. Cameron emphasizes the symbolism by comparing the new planet of Pandora to the new world of North America and by depicting a native culture extremely similar to Native American Indians. He even goes as far as creating a modern-day Pocahontas inspired plot to further suggest a connection to European’s conquest

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    Gregorio, in the Spanish city of Valladolid. The Valladolid debate was a Christian and ethical debate about the colonization of North America. The council also discussed its validation for the imposition of Catholicism to the Native Americans; more specifically relations between the Spanish settlers and the natives of the New World. Two conflicting opinions on the topic of Native Americans were Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, a theologian, and Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar. Sepúlveda advocated

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    In the New World from 1492 to 1700, Christopher Columbus, a Spanish explorer, discovered the New World and began bringing Spain more wealth. Bullion and indigenous people were being brought to Europe. More expeditions continued to the New World and eventually settlement began to establish. The New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Chesapeake areas became the major colonies in the New World. In 1619, slaves were shipped across the world to farm and mine the colonies to bring wealth to England

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    the rare Native Americans that were left in the United States were practically extinguished. Many diverse things contributed to their near-extinction, some were considered intentional and some unintentional. Some tribes made the decision to go willingly, and some decided to fight to their death but in the end, it was confirmed that Native Americans and settlers could not live together in amity, and the Native Americans were the ones at harm. The integration of European colonization ultimately led

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    Native North Americans: Justification for Indians     Throughout the history of America many people, and even countries have helped create the government and all the cities to be what they are today.  Without those who traveled here in the 15th, and 16th century many of us wouldn’t be here now; living free, and comfortably with many jobs and opportunities for ourselves. With greatness there is always a downfall, but because we worship and thank early settlers we do not pay much mind to those who

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    the America will not be like this right now. But behind all these titles and contributions and all those things that are known by the whole world, there were things he did that were not as nice as they seemed like. Such as the process of colonization. Colonization is the action that one power builds control in a place over the indigenous people there. To describe this in a simpler but more cruel way is that one country seize the area of others just like a robber. And just like robbers, they actually

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    Christopher Columbus was he a hero or was he a villain? As attitudes change throughout the years and new discoveries are being made, history is constantly being rewritten. In the recent years, there has been much controversy over the “achievements” of the great admiral Christopher Columbus. There have also been many books, articles, and historians that have described him as “one of the greatest mariners in history, a visionary genius, a national hero, a failed administrator, a naive entrepreneur

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    Capitalism and colonialism’s links as pillars of white supremacy contribute to the racial exclusion and exploitation of certain racial groups, such as Native Americans and Black people. This can be seen through the timeline of North American history, but also farther back in the history of European settler colonialism throughout Europe and into other nearby continents. The methods of decolonization employed by various racial groups affected by colonialism interact with one another in various ways

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    Convinced of the superiority of Catholicism to all other religions, Spain insisted that the primary goal of colonization was to save the Indians from heathenism and prevent them from falling under the sway of Protestantism. The aim was neither to exterminate nor to remove the Indians, but to transform them into obedient Christian subjects of the crown. To the Spanish

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