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Displacing Indigenous Peoples

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 11 · History

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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.

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Native people are those bornThe earliest inhabitants of North AmericaNative peoples in North America livedEarly Europeans came as tradersMany native societies did not see

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