Part 2 of an ongoing series on the history of Native American Territory as told through maps. This series is tagged as "Native American Map Series".
The two videos below do a great job of visually capturing the historical saga of Native American conquest and land loss.
European Conquest of the Americas
This is brilliant! It should be a must read for all Americans!
This Land is My Land?
The Legacy of Early Interactions Between Native Americans and Colonists
The British – who would later become the first “American citizens” – viewed the indigenous people as subordinate and uncivilized due to their nomadic lifestyles and “underutilization” of the land. Over a period of 300 years, from 1609 to 1900, Native American tribes went from inhabiting the entire land area, to living on specifically defined “native reservations.” Long before the founding of the United States, countless acres were taken through illegal treaties, trickery, and bloodshed.
These preliminary encounters between Native Americans and colonists laid the foundation for a tradition of land grabbing that repeated itself through the Revolutionary War of 1776, and especially later through policies of the United States federal government. Lest we forget: In the Americas, modern society was built on conquest, subordination murder and land-grabbing.
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