Pupils are asked to explore the different aspects of these encounters and why they may have changed. To what extent were certain stereotypes already in place while the English settlers were writing these statements?
How and why did they subsequently develop and shift? It is important to explore also what is missing from these sources. Who wrote these journal extracts, and what might their goals be? What other sources should be consulted? Why might that be? What are the limitations in using one perspective? You could discuss with students why the National Archives holds a collection of documents under this name. The early period covered in this lesson was followed by centuries of colonisation marked by wars, broken treaties, and discriminatory policies that decimated the indigenous North American populations and still impact Native Americans today.
Since these sources only show the perspectives of the English settlers, teachers may want to bring in other sources from Native American points of view. The National Museum of the American Indian is a good place to start. Key stage 3: the development of Church, state and society in Britain the first colony in America. Virtual Jamestown A site giving a lot of information about the original settlement at Jamestown, including a 3D reconstruction of the settlement and information about the people who lived there.
This guide offers contemporary Native perspectives about the historical experiences of the Native Americans of the Chesapeake, in particular, the Powhatan, Nanticoke, and Piscataway peoples.
Includes examples of and information on treaties between European settlers and Native American tribes. Related resources James I What were the key areas of dispute? This website uses cookies We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. Set cookie preferences.
Skip to Main Content. Search our website Search Discovery, our catalogue. View full image. Lesson at a glance. For Authors. The American Discovery of Europe.
An independent and indigenous revision of established history. Publication Date: Cloth: ; Paper: Starting with an encounter by Columbus himself with mysterious people who had apparently been carried across the Atlantic on favorable currents, Jack D. Others succeed in the conquest of Europe. Muslim Caliphate seizes Constantinople in Ogedei Khan avoids poisoning, continues Mongol conquest in Either one and the Americas are left alone for more years.
Thus Aztecs or Incas are even more powerful. A leader focused on conversion commands the first Spanish expedition to the Americas. Columbus under this is just a frustrated would be conqueror, perhaps stays in the slave trade in Africans.
Isabella decides to adopt earlier New Laws, outlawing the worst atrocities. Spaniards trade guns for gold rather than conquer. Instead of Latin America there's much more Native America, except for Brazilian, English, and French colonies, each of them potentially limited by stronger Native resistance.
Aztecs defeat Cortez and adopt Spanish technology from captured soldiers. This was actually several sci fi books already. Mack Reynold's The Other Time made it a time travel story. Any author using this premise needs to be sure not to duplicate those works. Incas defeat Pizarro and adopt Spanish technology from captured soldiers. At some point Incas would be fighting Natives in Mexico allied to Spain.
Oliver Cromwell lives longer, making the Puritan military dictatorship of England and its colonies very long lasting. When the US becomes independent, how will Natives do under a Puritan state? Basically along the lines of The Handmaid's Tale, but directed at crushing Native cultures and religions, especially independent women. Initial suggestions that the genes may have arrived via Asia were ruled out after samples showed they had been in Iceland since the early 18th century, before Asian genes began appearing among Icelanders.
Norse sagas suggest the Vikings discovered the Americas centuries before Columbus got there in A Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, in the eastern Canadian region of Terranova, is thought to date to the 11th century.
0コメント