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Contact between Native Americans and Europeans.
= = >Before the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Indians had developed, different ways of living that were influenced mainly by the type of environment in which they lived. //>The first Europeans explorers were the Spanish and Portuguese. They were accustomed to sailing in the stormy waters of the Atlantic and were trying to find a sea route to India.// //>Very few Indians lived in the plains region of America before the coming of the Europeans. Most lived in the more fertile regions of the Eastern woodlands or the Western Coast. The Eastern Woodland were some Native Indians lived, developed a distinctive way of life using the resources that they have available.// //>By 1488, the Portuguese had sailed around the southern tip of Africa. In 1492, Christopher Columbus attempted to reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. Although he reached America instead, he still called the people 'Indians'// //. The Native American mens would cover themselves with buffalo skin in an attempt to get close enough to make a kill. When they moved in search of buffalo in summer, they sometimes rolled up their tepees and attached them to two long poles, which were then draggered by dogs.// //>The Spanish introduced 'horses' into New Mexico in the 1590s. In 1494, the Portuguese signed a treaty by which they divided the world between themselves.// >Their are two factors about the contact between Native America and Europeans. The first was the introduction of the horses to the Indians .The second factor that changed the plain Indians way of life was the movement into the plains of woodland Indians, who had been firced off their land by the Europeans. >Many settlers feared Native Americans because they were different. Their ways seemed savage to the whites and they were so suspicious they did not understand about their culture and how they lived.[|] > Native American-European Contact is a cross-curricular lesson plan that explores the nature of the first encounters between Native Americans and Europeans in colonial Pennsylvania. the first contact between Europeans and native people on the Central Plains came between the Spanish and the Wichita tribe in what is now Kansas.Contact with the French and the British came decades later. later on the it would change the lives of the native people. this is the soliders on the native americans. The Wichitas lived in fascinating conical houses made of poles and grass.