Settlement of Southern New England

This paper takes as its focus the culture of the Native Americans of Southern New England and also why it was so terribly disrupted by European settlement. Another way of looking at this last issue is to say that this paper examines what made this region attractive to the Europeans who would superimpose their culture on the area. Finally, the paper examines how the final outcome of European settlement in this area was the result of the traditional native settlement patterns and the ways in which these interacted with the specific goals of the Europeans.

It should be noted before an examination of the particulars of the fate of the Indians of this region that the process by which Europeans came to take possession of land and other natural resources in America is generally seen as simply th

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sually made for more than a single family group, with the size of the house depending on the season. Families and communities tended to cluster together in the harsher conditions of winter and so winter houses were larger than summer dwellings. The IndiansÆ long houses were bark covered, while smaller round houses built for a few families were made of sticks covered with mats. The mats could be rolled up and moved from place to place, leaving the uprights behind. The furnishings of these houses were simple, with beds consisting of mats and skins laid directly on the floor or on low platforms. They were relatively comfortable except for what to modern Americans would seem like terrible ventilation, especially when rain forced people to cover smoke holes. There were no structures in the houses analogous to the chimneys in houses of European design (Trigger, 1978, p. 164). The natives lived in villages defined by Trigger (1978) as ôa social unit utilizing the resources of a limited territory, usually part of a drainage system or a section of the coastal plainö (p. 164). It should be noted that village size varied throughout the region and by season. The natives of the region created villages that were simple and relatively open in s
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Approximate Word count = 2187
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page)

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