The Tolowa Tribe is the only tribe that was affected by European invasion and conquest. This is a tribe that was mainly located in Southern Oregon and the Northwest Coast of California. Their environment contained a wide variety of ecosystems including mountains, rivers, and forests. “The Tolowa (Hush) were the southernmost of five groupings of Athabascan-speaking peoples of now southwestern Oregon and northwestern California, all with similar cultures,” Thornton writes. A lot of the Tolowa people’s culture, including language, dance, music, and lots of storytelling. They would often create art based on their surroundings and the creatures who inhabited where they live. Other activities include crafts, baking, weaving, and woodworking. This would create…show more content… This unfortunately also brought about the decline of the Tolowa population. This was due to disease, genocide, and relocation, as stated in the introduction. The diseases that were brought from the Europeans include diptheria, measles, syphilis, and cholera. These were a major cause to a majority of the deaths that occurred within the Tolowa tribe and other tribes in California. Symptoms that these people endure include “painful bone inflammation, cranial palsies, and damage to liver, spleen, lungs, stomach, pancreas, and kidneys, anemia, jaundice, weakness, and loss of appetite.”(2). This has caused a lot of pregnant women to miscarry or have an abrupt abortion. European invasion caused women in different tribes to be painted in a negative light, especially if they have a miscarriage or an abortion. European priests had taught Indian peoples about patriarchy and, as a result, lowered the status of women within Indian culture. They had to be separated from their distant family and kept confined to other single Indian women in an
