Native Americans Nations of the Northeast
The Native Americans Nations of the Northeast: Strength and Wisdom of the Conferacies The video Nations of the Northeast: Strength and Wisdom of the Confederacies , is a documentary which builds up a history of the Native American culture. We learn how the people of the northeast thrived on the basis of living in harmony with nature and each other. Seventy distinct native languages were used along the eastern seaboard and over two hundred plants were used medicinally . Then we learn how the white settlers arrived and progressively destroyed the culture of the nations of the . The white man did not understand any of the Native Americans beliefs or ways of life so he tried to replace them with his own. ... Native children were forced to live in military boarding schools to assimilate white culture. The overall theme of this video is the survival and adaptation of the Native Americans during and after the colonization of the United States. The Native Americans survived many hardships due to the arrival of Colombus and the colonization of the white man.