1. Native Americans and the Colonies
Please answer the following question in your notes:
Who really discovered America? Support your answer with relevant facts or examples.

2. What is the
meaning
of this cartoon?

3. Native Americans First people to occupy Western Hemisphere.
Way of life was influenced by environment
Agriculture, hunting, fishing, and trade made up their economic system
Religious beliefs linked to nature.
Strong social organization

4. Iroquois Confederacy (1570)
Consisted of 6 Iroquois nations located in central and western NY
( ) Iroquois kept land out of European hands for almost 2 centuries.

6. What kind of relationship do you think the Native Americans had with the colonists?

7. trade

8. Alliances

9. Warfare

10. Different Views and Values
Central conflict = land control
Native Americans believed land should be shared; English valued individual ownership

11. Cultural and Technological Differences
Europeans felt they were superior
Attempted to convert natives to Christianity and assumed they would conform to their society
Europeans
Native Americans

12. Warfare
Tobacco farming drew settlers into native territories.
“Virginia’s gold and silver.”
- John Rolfe (1612)

13. THINK – PAIR – SHARE
Do you think the colonists were justified in taking the Native Americans’ land? Why or why not?