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Martin Ch 2 Main IdeasTradition and Crisis in the Eastern Woodlands
Traditions:
• Natural phenomena is personified;
• Balance with spiritual alignment with nature;
•Utilize every part of game animals respectively;
• Storytellers educated the next generation to keep traditions, values and religious beliefs alive;
Crisis:
• European settlement expanded-more interest in land- created new religious movements among Native Americans;
• Disease-especially smallpox. Native Americans sought to halt expansion of the English and check the spread of Christianity;
• Iroquois ceremony of “re-quickening” became dysfunctional and counterproductive as a result of contact with Europeans;
• European firearms made Native Americans warfare more dangerous and deadly;
• Dependence on European trade and trade goods made Native American people vulnerable to European influence and control in a way Native ancestors had not anticipated.
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