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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Conflict Between Cultures
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Time Frame: 1670's-1870's
From the 1670s to the 1870s European and Indian ideas about the land were in conflict with one another.
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The Indians were caught up in change of their civilization as they had known it. They could never go back to the way things use to be. The Indians thought about things one way, the white man another. The Indian believed the land belonged to the Great Spirit. Who, in turned, allowed the red man to take from it those things that he needed. For the white man the land was something to be owned and worked. As the American frontier continued to push closer to the future Iowa boarder, the Indians who had lived here found that the traditions of independence they had passed from generation to generation were quickly fading out and a new lifestyle lay ahead.
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