EC: Native Americans
Read the following excerpts from various books and answer the following questions; 1) What similarities do you see in the ways that various Europeans treated the Native Americans? 2) What information below shows a trend in how the US Government related to the Native Americans? 3) Is it enough for contemporary Americans to learn of the atrocities of the past, or should more be done? Explain. Answer the above listed questions in 2-3 paragraphs. Submit to schoology. Due by Thursday, 9/12/19 Taylor The explorer Christopher Columbus first gave the Native Americans the name “Indians.” In 1492, on what would later be known as the island of San Salvador, the Tainos greeted Columbus with lavish gifts. Columbus later sent a letter to his sponsors in Spain, explaining that these natives were weak and savage. In the mid-17th century, the Dutch settled in what would eventually be known as Manhattan. They “bought” the island for beads and fishhooks. In 1641, the Dutch sen...