American history? native american cultures?

I have tried very hard to think of a positive effect that the Europeans had brought to the new world and I am having a great difficulty in doing so. I really cannot think of 1. I cannot help but think how poor of an assignment this is.

The European brought and exposed whole new culture to the Natives. In contrast to the Spanish and Portuguese, the colonist of North America were somewhat less oppressive and more tolerant, the original colonist sought simple to live along side the natives, but soon the competition over land made that impossible. The colonist did bring the horse to the native so for a few hundred years that was benifical to them.

The colonist also introduced the natives to farming, metal working, and manufacturing. When the colonist landed upon North America and met the natives was like the H. Neanderthalensis meeting the H.

Sapiens. One culture dooming the other.

Your teacher is assigning you the task of sugar-coating history. Ask them the positive effects the Nazi's had on the Jews. If she can come up with something even remotely plausible, I will help you with this task.

The only "positives" I personally see come out of oppression is a breed of even more resilient people than the generations before. Several of us now are mixed (like me). And though I am proud of all my ethnic inheritance's, I am not even going to begin to say that my non-native ancestors invasion/exploitation of Native peoples is even remotely positive..I have come to terms with that.

Its about time other non-natives did too. Our ancestors either were active participants in the genocide of native americans, or passive. But they all participated, yes, even those of you who's families came here only a decade or two ago.

To this day, native peoples are oppressed and exploited. There is PLENTY of evidence of it...including the recent discovery that the U.S. government has been purposefully targeting individual native americans specifically and stealing from their private trust funds, funds generated off their own properties and resources that they inherited from their parents or grandparents. Why were natives targeted?

Because we are the most oppressed people in the nation. If they had targeted white people, african americans, asian americans or any other group with more social/political power in the U.S., the nation would have thrown a HUGE tantrum and demanded justice. What happens when people find out it happened to natives?

They excuse it and come up with crazy, hate-filled justifications as to why the natives who were stolen from deserved it. Except John McCain...he is the only white politician I know of who called it what it is: Deliberate and blatant theft and racism.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.