Compare And Contrast The Pilgrims And Indians

“ We give food to starving settlers so that they can survive the winter, settlers end up taking all the good land and let the natives starve to death.” Two hundred years before the Puritans arrived in America the European settlers came over to America accidently. Christopher Columbus was trying to find a new route to India, but landed on an Island we now know as America. When Christopher Columbus landed on the island, strange, unknown, people came up to him. He called them Indians because he thought he had landed in India. While getting to learn more about Columbus the Indians learn they have different values than the European settlers and the Puritans, once they arrive two hundred years later. Getting to know the European settlers and the Puritans, the Indians realized their outlooks on Faith, Loyalty, And Laws are vastly different and similar.

The first Europeans had arrived to North America, and it’s safe to say that that they weren’t exactly prepared to face the hardships ahead of them. Unfortunately they had to go through a hard winter which killed many of the Pilgrims that had come here, about 54 of them to be exact. Without a doubt they couldn’t survive on their own in the New World without a little help, and that is when Natives took notice. The Natives had come to the Pilgrims and through one native who knew broken english, brought the Pilgrims to their chief. From then on both sides have worked together, and with benefit, since they needed to work together to survive cause the Natives knew the land and the Pilgrims had more advanced technology, it was essential for both sides to work together.There are examples in “In Plymouth Plantation” several times that the Natives and Pilgrims need to work together in order to survive.

Native Americans were discriminated against and forced out of their own lands because the Americans felt inferior towards them. In 1812 the British found themselves at war with the Americans and this was the Native peoples chance to once and for all defeat their white superiors. Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief but he was addressing Choctaws and Chickasaws because he is calling for Native American unity throughout the entire United States. He announces his alliance with the British who are fighting against the Americans in 1812. He urges other Native American tribes to do the same because they have a common enemy. Also, it will be harder to fight the Americans if they are a unified force instead of individual tribes all fighting the common enemy

Squanto is a Native American who lived in the early seventeenth century in what is now the Northeast United States. When the English came to this area of America to settle, they became very fond of Squanto and used him as a translator due to his unique knowledge of the English language acquired through an earlier voyage to Europe. Squanto helped the Pilgrims adapt to their new surroundings by providing them with the knowledge that he and his ancestors used to survive when they first settled in this area. He became known as a friend to the English and a spokesman for his Native friends (Johnson p.2). However, in helping the English, Squanto realized the power he had obtained through his position and used it for his own gain

One day, a lone Indian man walked into the settlement. He raised his hand in friendship to the settlers. The Pilgrims welcomed this stranger named Samoset. Samoset introduced the Pilgrims to his chief, Massasoit, and his interpreter, Squanto. Squanto spoke English because he had been captured as a boy by traders who had come to the New World in search of slaves. Squanto was taken to England and lived there many years before returning to the New World. He alone understood that the Pilgrims did not know how to hunt or fish - that they would die without help in the New World.

From the beginning the Pilgrims did not understand what they were getting into. They didn’t know prior to their arrival there was an epidemic that killed off most of the Native American population. The Pilgrims did not come to the New World empty handed either, but as they were running low on food they realized they didn’t know how to live off the land. If it wasn’t for Squanto, the Pilgrims would have never learned how to look for proper planting ground, or how to harvest their plantation. As it was, the Pilgrims were unbarring graves and taking whatever, whether they thought they needed it or they wanted it. The Pilgrims also stole the Native Americans food, without knowing they did. An eye witness wrote “We marched to a place we called Cornhill, where we found corn before. At another place we had seen before, we dug and found some more corn, tow or three baskets full,

Once the railroads were completed to the West it opened up vast parts of the region to economic and settlement development. White settlers poured across the Mississippi from the East to farm, mine, and ranch (Rise of industrial America, n. d.). African-American settlers from the Deep South came west convinced by the promoters they could settle in all-black towns with prosperity waiting on them. The railroad workers who were Chinese added to the region’s population diversity.

Squanto is a Native American who lived in the early seventeenth century in what is now the Northeast United States. When the English came to this area of America to settle, they became very fond of Squanto and used him as a translator due to his unique knowledge of the English language acquired through an earlier voyage to Europe. Squanto helped the Pilgrims adapt to their new surroundings by providing them with the knowledge that he and his ancestors used to survive when they first settled in this area. He became known as a friend to the English and a spokesman for his Native friends (Johnson p.2). However, in helping the English, Squanto realized the power he had obtained through his position and used it for his own gain

Soon they were starving and digging up putrid Native corpses to eat or renting themselves out to American Indian families as servants” (p.84). Most textbooks also say that the Pilgrims made friends with the Native Americans and they taught them how to farm the best. In reality Loewen says “colonists appropriated American Indian cornfields for their initial settlements,avoiding the backbreaking labor of clearing the land of forest and rock” (p.85). That’s an incredibly different story than what is taught. Loewen also brings up the fact that despite popular belief, Columbus did not discover America. “Columbus’s voyage was not the first but the last “discovery” of the Americas” (p.33). He also talks about how much of an American hero Columbus is made to be, when he truly isn’t. “But most of them [textbook authors] leave out virtually everything that is important to know about Columbus and the European exploration of the Americas. Meanwhile, they make up all kinds of details to tell a better story” (p.32). Textbook authors never want to tell the whole

Colonization By: Hansika Sangaraju Colonization was a time of adventure and hardships. Imagine you are in a small crooked shack which was supposed to be your home. Men working hard, while women were cleaning and doing housework. Colonies came up with what know today as government, they used different strategies and laws to keep order. Children were very different at that time, they entertained themselves in different ways with the resources they had, and were allowed to access.

The discovery of the New Land sparked an interest of many explorers in the European countries. The first officially recorded explorer to reach the New Land was Christopher Columbus. Historians have had different perspectives of different people in their history in exploring the New Land. In the two excerpt they have the same stories, yet highly different opinions of what is going on. The stories that are most mixed are about Christopher Columbus, Hernando Cortes, and the reason for why so many Indians were killed.

Many components prompted the accomplishment behind the europeans versus the local americans over region. One of the undeniable explanations behind the Europeans accomplishment over the Native Americans was a result of their prevalent weaponry, germs, and steel. They had war innovation which the local americans couldn't contend with because of the reality they were not expected to proceed with their regular living and the germs which were really sicknesses, for example, little pox had not been around and immediately executed local americans. When smallpox was taken to the New World, no one in the New World had ever seen a sickness like this some time recently, so the quantity of individuals who were defenseless was much more noteworthy. There

There is said to be many different explorers or settlers to come to America but did not discover it.The first settlers that came to the Northern pars of America were known as the Paleo-Indians. This happened in different waves and at a variety of locations. The belief that some of the people resembled Asia rather than Europeans led them to think that there were others here before them. Some believe that the first settlers came not for fame but because they were searching for food because they were hungry. They came following a herd of wooly mammoths with the hope of feeding and clothing their families.The second largest pre-Columbian culture to develop was that of the Mississippians. There were many tribes that lived about the same time but

Both excerpts have very different ideas. The author's note is a much more summarized version of the story. However, they story by Diana Burns is much more detailed and has a much different viewpoint. The actual excerpt seems to take place through the eyes of an actual settler. Whereas, the author's note seems like a vague summary of what really happened and all the facts may not be factual. The author's note gives more backstory and straightforward facts.

According to the text, the author believes that the enmities between European settlers and Indians are unavoidable even if they seem to be friendly to each other at first. In my opinion, I agree with the author’s argument because from the historical events and trends, we can tell the excessive conflicts, especially beliefs on certain issues, lands and religion especially, and the external diseases, which reveal a radical age.