Chem 1320 1st Edition Lecture 5 Outline of Last Lecture EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AND THE NATIVE AMERICANS: III. The Puritans and the Hunter-Gatherer Tribes of New EnglandA. The “Saints” Meet the “Noble Savages”1. Native American Values: Animism and Autonomy2. Native American Values: Predestination and the Work EthicB. “Reduce Them to Civility:” Failed Puritan Policy on Native Americans1. Save Their Souls: Praying Towns2. Get Them in One Place: European Style Agriculture3. Make the Men into Men and the Women into Women: The PlowC. Trade and “Captive Conversion:” A More Successful Policy?1. The Fur Trade and the Desire for European Goods2. “Captive Conversion” and “White Indians”D. The Final Solution: War and Genocide Terms: Noble Savages, Praying Towns, Plow, White Indians Outline of Current Lecture- The View From Walden- Landscape and Patchwork- Seasons of want and plenty- Bounding the Land- Commodities of the huntCurrent LectureCronon 1-107Chapter 1-2- As the Europeans began to show up to the New World the abundance of fruits and animals drastically started to change. There were less berries, birds These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.o “the shape of the landscape was a visible confirmation of the state of human society” p.5-6- Goal of coming to the New World according to Cronon was to find merchantable items that could be shipped back to Europe.o Only cod, sassafras, and beaver could be made as a profito Things like timber which Europe greatly needed did not get a profit because it was so difficult to transport back- The death rates in the colonies were far better than the death rates back in Europe because they did not have the constant presence of deadly diseasesChapter 3- The northern and southern Indians had different lifestyleso The north were more based on hunting and fishing because they were near the coasto The south were more based on agriculture because the land there was better with less harsh winters But both did farm and hunt no matter where they lived- English and Indians had different ideas towards how they workedo English thought that Indian women were doing the harder mens’ jobs like farming, while the men were lazy and hunted and fishedo Indians thought that English men were considered womanish because they did not hunt. While they thought the woman should be working because they still can, meaning why waste someone who can work just as well.- English and Indian differed for how they lived and farmedo English stayed in one spot and tended to plant the same crop in one field at a time.o Indians moved from place to place as needed and planted a variety of crops which actually proved to improved soil fertility for longerChapter 4 - English and the Indians had different ideas on how they were bounded to lando English thought They had to buy the land and then improve ito Indians thought That no one could actually own the land you just used it for awhile and then moved on- When trying to settle lands the English ran into problems because the Indians did not see real estate as something that you can buy or trade for. Chapter 5- A disease knocked out most of the Indian populations- Trade was mostly based on wampums which were traded to the Europeans for guns- Indians saw the goods more as a status item than functionality.- Later Europeans just started to kill the Indians rather than to trade because they put themselves at risk when they kept trading weapons to themo Thought they were getting too
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