Iowa Past to Present Teacher's Guide: Chapter 3: Many Flags over Iowa
Spanish Meet Indians
French and Early Iowans
Early French Explorers Visit Iowa
Explorers Meet Iowa Natives
La Salle Claims Land for France
Dubuque Seeks Opportunity
Explorers Search for River Sources
Map of North America Combining New factual Information with the Older Mythical Geography
Map of the Mississippi River Valley, 1682
Western U.S. shown in 1776 map
Julien Dubuque
Drawing of Fort Madison, ca 1808
Mississippi River From Pike's Peak
Map of Western North America, ca. 1790
Europeans Come to Iowa
Influence of European Culture
Conflict Between Cultures
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Influence of European Culture
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Time Frame: 1670's-1870's
The influence of European culture changed Native Iowans' way of life from the 1670s to 1870s.
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The influence of white cultures upon the Indians dramatically changed the way they had lived for centuries. Indians, who had never seen a white man, traded hides and furs with trappers and explores that slowly moved into Iowa. And they received items they had never seen before: iron-cooking utensils, colored glass beads to decorate their clothing and guns and powder. From Spanish settlements in the Southwest came the horse. Now the Indians could pursue the herds of bison wherever they roamed. They traveled greater distances and came in contact with tribes they had not known before. The Indians who had horses had a great advantage over those who didn’t.
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