How did the columbian exchange shift cultural norms of native americans?

Many Native Americans used horses to transform their hunting and gathering into highly mobile practices.  Native Americans also sold tobacco with the Europeans that later turned out to be the first rightly global commodity.

EXPLANATION:

•There were many conflicts between early European settlers and the Native Americans; though much of it stopped in "mezcla"—a mix. For instance, Europeans spread their Christian/Catholic beliefs, and as a consequence of European efforts to convert Natives to their beliefs, Natives (with missionaries’ help) joined by many Catholic beliefs with their own, changing their "gods" into Catholic Saints. Actually, this is where we obtain many of the Saints that we often hear in South America and Mexico that Northern Catholics are not familiar with (for instance, Our Lady of Guadalupe).

•Property possession was distinctive too. In Native American communities, an individual seldom owned something, particularly land. They more so retained the right to live in that area, but it did not mean the remnants of the community had to stay away.  

So, if a Native retailed, for instance, some riverfront belongings to a settler, the settler might be outraged to see some people go fishing his lawn the next day. The Natives did not realize the problem. The Europeans, on the contrary, felt Natives had inappropriately taken back what they had sold and returned on their word—hence the offensive term is "Indian Giver."

•Another dissimilarity was patriarchal versus matriarchal households and societies. Europeans usually had men in control of communities and families, while Natives usually had women running shows.

•Fundamentally, settlers (and later Americans) did what they could to "civilize" the Native population, trying to change their "pagan" way to European standards. Of course, it led to many conflicts, unfortunately with indigenous people often losing their lives or being driven from their own land.

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KEYWORDS: Columbian Exchange, Native American, Columbian Exchange shift cultural norms of native Americans,  

Subject  : History

Class  : 10-12

Sub-Chapter: Columbian Exchange

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