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A 7 page overview of Nash’s views on the impacts inflicted on Native Americans and African Americans by European colonists. Notes that any culture’s objective is cultural survival and that it is not that unique to emphasize one’s own survival even if it means the decimation of another. No additional sources are provided.
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Gary Nashs "Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America" presents a multifaceted analysis of the impact
the arrival of the first European settlers had in the Americas. This impact had reverberations among various Native American cultures as well as among the African American peoples the
Europeans brought to the Americas as slaves. What unfolded among the various European invaders and the rightful Native American owners of the lands the Europeans sought to control was
one of the more unfortunate chapters of American history. The interactions between these colonists and the slaves they held in bondage was just as unfortunate of course but, as
will be explained below, the situation behind that misfortune was somewhat different. In short these peoples, as different as they were from one another, were interested in the same
objective. Nash contends that: "For both (European and Native Americans) survival and the enhancement
of their own culture were the paramount objective" Obviously for each culture this goal largely
ignored the importance of the survival and enhancement of the opposing culture. Such and objective, of course, is not that uncommon for a cultural group. Indeed, it is
the primary objective of any cultural group. What differed in this relationship was the European factions largely viewed the Native Americans, and indeed the African Americans which would soon
follow the Europeans to this so-called "New World" in the shackles of slavery, as their inferiors. The Europeans sought to capitalize upon each. Upon the land and the
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