ANTH 316gm Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Transcontinental Railroad
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Pick your own essay topic so you can pick a topic that interests you. Ex/ architect can look into architectural concerns. group can be a particular tribe or reservations. Anything in contemporary native american history - recent. America was still a new and experimental nation, undergoing vast changes. Big economic factor, fur was very fashionable in europe so there was a tremendous interest in furs. Almost wiped out the seals, but they are doing better now. Aside from the aleutian islands, russian impact was limited. Didn"t conquer territory, mostly had trading posts. Gave alaska their main religion in present day: russian orthodox. Had some large scale civilizations, known to be effective warriors, were never defeated by russians. There was now a united states of america. Native american"s were driven off, put on reservations. Start seeing very interesting allies and confederacies between groups that were previous enemies. Weren"t intrinsically bad, just didn"t know the proper way of thinking.
