We hear about local tribes commercial interactions with Spanish Missions and fur traders and the items these groups exchanged, including livestock fabric and fur. This is an hour and 15 minutes. All right, todays lecture is going to pull together some of the topics that weve been exploring throughout the semester. The spanish colonization of north america, contributions of native american societies to development of the various colonies, manifest destiny and the american conquest of northern mexico. And the american wests role in the sectional crisis over slavery. Were going to examine them from a slightly different perspective. A few weeks ago we read about indian removal in the 19th century. And how it shaped and was shaped by the expansion of american democracy as well as the United States expanding cotton economy. In your readings, indian nations like the cherokees, for example, were clearly victimized by the United States government in the state of georgia as well as landhungry se
Manifest destiny and the american conquest of northern mexico, and the american wests role in the crisis over slavery, but were going to examine them from a slightly different perspective. A few weeks ago we read about indian removal, wrote about indian removal in the 19th century and how it was shaped by expansion of american democracy, as well as the expanding cotton economy and in your readings, indian nations like the cherokees were victimized in the state of georgia, as well as land hungry settlers, but the cher key nations willingness to press advantages in resisting removal illustrate how indians throughout north america continued to change in creative and dynamic ways to make colonialism work in their favor. With that in mind i want to revisit california today, because when dont i want to revisit california, and consider the ways california indian societies continued this practice beyond the mission era, which youre familiar with, and helped to build californias economy, attrac