Native American History

The history of Native Americans in the United States began in the Pre-Columbian era with the settlement of the Americas by the Paleo-Indians. Anthropologists have identified and studied a wide variety of cultures that existed during this era. Their subsequent contact with Europeans had a profound impact on their history.

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They missed the chance to learn that “savage” and “civilized” are relative terms without objective authority or content, that “men call that barbarism” which simply is “not common to them”. Such a lesson was badly needed in that fiercely intolerant age, as it still is in our own more subtly and intolerant one.
James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America

Andrés Reséndez
If we were to add up all the Indian slaves taken in the New World from the time of Columbus to the end of the nineteenth century, the figure would run somewhere between 2.5 and 5 million slaves.
Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

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