Notes: In this essay, James Kences recounts the explorations of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 to 1528), ...

The native Americans, or Indians, as the Europeans came to call them, first encountered European explorers, and before long, saw their world transformed and largely destroyed by European settlers.

Sweden and the Netherlands began to change native America during the early 1500s. Spanish explorers looking for bullion (gold and silver) began to impose European values upon American Indians.

Explorers also brought back words from the native languages ... throughout humanity for centuries. Native Americans were enslaved in parallel to the European occupation of Africa, where Africans ...

This is, of course, the name of the Native American tribe ... Who were the first European settlers in Iowa? The first known European explorers to Iowa were Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet ...