Were Native Americans violent before Europeans arrived?

Native Americans definitely waged war long before Europeans showed up. The evidence is especially strong in the American Southwest, where archaeologists have found numerous skeletons with projectile points embedded in them and other marks of violence; war seems to have surged during periods of drought.

Did the French really walk into a North American Utopia?

They walked into it — and ultimately made it worse — but they didn’t walk into a North American utopia. When French explorers and traders made it out to the western Great Lakes in the 17th century — 200 years before the slow Brits, Germans and Scandinavians eventually resettled Minnesota and Wisconsin — this was a refugee zone.

Which Native American tribes were the most warlike?

The plains tribes of north america – the Sioux, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and especially the Comanche – were arguably even more warlike than the European interlopers. However, here in California where I live, the indigenous tribes – peoples like the Chumash, Ohlone, Pomo and Miwok – were much less warlike,…

Did Europeans walk into North America or did they walk into it?

The natives of eastern Canada were definitely interested in European weaponry to defend themselves against their enemies in what became the state of New York. Europeans didn’t cause that brutal conflict. They walked into it — and ultimately made it worse — but they didn’t walk into a North American utopia.

Who were the first people to settle in America?

Europeans may have been the first people to settle in America, possibly more than ten thousand years before anyone else set foot there. ­A series of European-style tools dating from twenty-six-thousand to nineteen-thousand years ago have been discovered in six separate locations along the east coast of the United States.