Indigenous Tribes & Culture: How Colonialism and Borderlands Affected Tribal Nations

Introduction & Brief Overview

The lands that we exist on today once housed and nourished many indigenous tribes that spanned all over North America. These tribes had unique cultures, traditions, beliefs, and survival methods based on their location. Throughout Early American History, we see as our colony grew into an independent country, we would begin to overpower the places they had known for generations. Our expansion meant the degradation of the land in which they used to control, which would eventually push tribes closer to each other than they ever were, change their culture, their survival methods, and how they participated in commerce. This Scalar will focus primarily on the Apache, Cheyenne, and Mohawk Tribes in North America. Each tribe is located in different parts of the country, and as you will learn, you will begin to see how location and expansion changed the ways that these tribes survived in a place that they were slowly losing control of. Continue onto the next page to begin learning about the Apache Tribe. 

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