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.

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

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.

is thought to be the first European baby born in North America. Thorfinn and his band found their promised riches—game, fish, timber and pasture—and also encountered Native Americans ...

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 ...

His previous encounters with various native groups had been positive ... Verrazzano's North American exploration ended when the ship reached the east coast of Newfoundland. He was to follow ...