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Who introduced the horse to the Plains Indians?
The Spaniards!
What was the nature of the exploitation of Indians in the Americas?
Many of the Indians were killed by European diseases, but those who survived, were captured and were forced into slavery. The Indians were forced to work on plantations and many Indian women were forced to marry Spanish settlers unwillingly .
Who bought land from the Indians instead of just taking it?
As far back as we know no one bought land from the Native Americans. The land was taken from the by the European settlers.
What contributed to the conflict between settlers and Native Americans?
A majority of the settlers not only brought diseases because of their filth (that the Indians were not immune to), but also brought starvation and poverty due to their greed for fashionable animal skins, greed for unique Indian possessions, and introduction of alchoholic beverage to the Indians. To the Indians the Americans were greedy and selfish barbarians who came to destroy them and take their land. Incidentally, scalping was also introduced by the British during the French and Indian war as a means of verification that the Indians were doing their job of killing the French.
Who helped the Cherokee develop their own legal system and government that intertwined their own and European systems?
Sequoua when he invented writing and alphabets it enabled the indians to take records and set laws more than just verbally.
