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Displacing Indigenous Peoples

CBSE · Class 11 · History

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Topics in Displacing Indigenous Peoples

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1. Native Peoples Before European Expansion

  • The earliest inhabitants of North America came from Asia over 30,000 years ago across a land-bridge over the Bering Straits.
  • The oldest artefact found in America is an arrow-point that is 11,000 years old.
  • Native population in North America began increasing about 5,000 years ago when the climate became more stable.
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2. European Views of Native Peoples

  • Europeans often judged native peoples using their own ideas of civilisation, literacy, religion, and urban life.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau admired native peoples as noble savages untouched by the corruption of civilisation.
  • William Wordsworth described them as living amid wilds with limited imagination and emotion.
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3. Expansion, Settler Colonialism, and Loss of Land in North America

  • From the eighteenth century, European settlements expanded across North America.
  • The USA acquired Louisiana from France and Alaska from Russia by purchase, and much of southern USA from Mexico by war.
  • No consent was asked from native peoples when land was taken.
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4. Native Perspectives, Trade, and Resistance

  • Native peoples and Europeans often understood land and goods differently.
  • To native peoples, goods exchanged with Europeans were gifts given in friendship.
  • To Europeans, fish and furs were commodities sold for profit in distant markets.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Displacement of indigenous peoples by European settlement and colonial expansion in America and Australia

Native peoples of North AmericaEncounters with EuropeansEuropean ideas about nativesLoss of native land in the USAFrontier and expansionNative resistance and rights in North AmericaAustralia and Aboriginal historyTerra nullius and colonial violence in Australia

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