Native Americans How did Colonists Affect Native American's Life

The colonists affected the life of Native Americans by taking their land, resources, and making them go into other troops' land.

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Colonists affected Native Americans’ life by forcing them to go in other Native Americans’ land. When Native Americans went on other Native Americans’ land, they started wars and conflicts. During the 1600s through 1700s, there was a bunch of conflicts between colonists and Native Americans. Then many Native Americans died protecting their land.

The Huron hunted beaver and when they was no more they went on other native americans' lands

In the book “Our Nation”, on page fifty nine, paragraph one, it states, “The Iroquois’ success in the Beaver Wars pushed other American Indian groups off their land.” In the website “Beaver Wars”, it states “The Beaver war was fought between two groups of Indians in the Great Lakes region in the 1600s that were fighting for land to live in.”

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When the colonists took the Native Americans’ land, they were forced to move into a different area and the effect of this was that Native Americans had wars with colonists. When this happened, there was a killing of massacre of Native Americans.

The colonists saw great resources and land in the Native Americans' land.

In the article “Immigration Native Americans”, it states “President Andrew Jackson asked Congress to pass the Removal Act, a bill that forced Native Americans to leave the United States and move in the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. When the colonists took the Native Americans’ land, they were forced to move into a different area.”

The colonists affected the native american's life by taking their resources.

They took their resources which cause them to leave and made they loose their land.

In the book, “Our Nation”, on page fifty one, paragraph one, it states, “During the Cherokee’s journey west, many people died as a result of bad weather and diseases.” In the article “Trail of tears”, it states, “Many diseases came along the way that estimate more than 5,000 Cherokee people died as a result of the journey of Trail of tears.”

Colonists affected Native Americans’ life by forcing them to go in other Native Americans’ land. Colonists took their land from the Native Americans. They also forced them to move from their home. This caused many wars with the colonists.

It also made many conflicts between Native Americans and colonists. The Native Americans were tricked, they were made to leave their land and work for the colonists.

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