Indians Vs Colonists

At first they were okay with each other to my understanding. They traded goods and lived side by side in harmony. Once the gold mines were discovered things took a change for the worse. The miners would quickly take over the land and would kill /sell/mutilate the Indians. Eventually the Indians had enough and fought back.

The Indians were well adapted to the land, therefore they were able to use swamps to their advantage and also use the same swamp to the colonist’s disadvantage. Indians who frequently migrated and had no special meaning for their personal equity, never placed an identity to it. Unlike the Indians, the colonists believed their property was meaningful. Lepore explains that religion contributed a major part to the colonist idea of their own, “the colonists’ sense of predestination…, their natural affinity with the land, and their cultural proclivity to conflate property with identity, all combined to produce this oneness of bodies and mind.” The colonist viewed the Indians as savages due to the misunderstanding values of land, property, and equity. In addition, the colonists, who were mostly Puritans believed the war was God punishing them for the failure of the colonists to convert the Indians to Christianity. On the other hand, the Indians had other spiritual faith that collides with the colonist religious

For the colonists, they were seeking to expand and seek fortune in North America. Whereas the Native Americans simply wanted to keep the land they once had with very few problems. It makes me believe that the wars between Natives and colonists were not completely fair. Both had advantages and disadvantages, but the Natives should have had sovereignty over their land. The English mistreated the Natives, and some may argue that the Natives treated the colonists harshly. However, this mistreatment was

The Native Americans offered them succour, which led to new adaptations Colonialism changed the lives of colonists due to harsh climate, new adaptation, and illnesses. In the historical document “ from of Plymouth Plantation,” William Bradford

The Indians had an identity all their own, and were in many ways reluctant to open up to the English settlers, fearing the effects of their highly controversial way of life. Regardless, despite the devastating bouts with foreign disease that accompanied the settlers, and issues regarding the land the colonists claimed in the name of the king, the Indians were still relatively accepting and hospitable to the setting Puritans. (Drake 3) They traded openly, worked together in establishing villages, and notoriously, the Indians aided the Puritans in teaching them the ways of the land, and in guiding them through the difficult New England winters. Over several years, the two cultures began to mesh, and the bits and pieces

Native Americans continued to be viewed as inferior, so colonists did not consider them entitled to the same rights as the "freeborn Englishmen" like them. Finally,

This was different from the Spanish colonies occurred because the Spanish were not friends with the the Indians and did not treat them like people, but rather as slaves.

On the road to the American Revolution, the colonists could either choose to be a loyalist or a patriot. It all depends on how that certain colonist thought was better for their family. themselves, and the rest of the colonies. When thinking of the loyalist, people might think that there were a lot of them but really only 20% of the population of the colonies were loyalist. They lived in all colonies, both rural and urban areas. Some areas had more loyalist like New York and the Carolinas. They were appointed by the crown, successful merchants, Quakers because they were pacifist, and many more. Germans, Native and African Americans, and indentured servants were mostly loyalist because Britain promised their freedom for the loyalty. The loyalist

Coming from an economic standpoint, the Europeans and Indians were such total opposites, it often led to misunderstanding. Indians had very large trading routes well before the time of European colonization. Their experience in trade only made it easier to exchange goods with the Europeans. For Indians, trading was a way to acquire goods they wanted, but also a way to share the wealth of their land with other tribes that didn't have the same items to trade as they did. To the

When the colonists began to arrive in America they were surprised to find that the land was already occupied by various Natives. Because the lives of 16th century Natives was very different from what

There are many reasons Native Americans and European Colonists did not have a good relationship. The reason for conflict between Colonist and Indians was due to the Colonists insatiable greed for power and land. Some of the reasons not only included physical mistreatment but also an ethical mistreatment of the Native Americans. European Colonists not only brought with them many different diseases that would later aid in the genocide of many Native American tribes, but also a mindset in which they felt superior to there Native neighbors. This feeling of superiority led to an outbreak of violence and many different civil wars. Due to the Native American and the Colonists irreconcilable

The Native American 's encounters with European colonists led to different interactions between the two, as well as a development of varied relationships. America had been home to Native Americans since around 13,000 B.C. The Europeans arrived in America around 1492 to find that the land was already inhabited. Before the Europeans arrived, the Native Americans had lived in harmony with nature and with each other in communities, having strong family ties. When the Europeans arrived, they held different values than the Native Americans. As the Europeans settled in New England, Chesapeake and New York/New France, these differences shaped the relationships between the Native Americans and the European colonists.

The Colonial-Indian relations have been very poor throughout the very first contact with each other. The Native Americans often raided the villages of European settlers to gain revenge on the Europeans who had pillaged their land for slaves and other resources the colonial settlers needed at that time. The colonial government also had a role in the poor relations between the two. Very often the government would make treaties and break those treaties. The relations between the Native Americans and European colonists were very poor and hostile.

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.

With different cultures and beliefs, it is very hard for groups of people to avoid conflict with one another. One of the biggest factors of the clash between Native Americans and Europeans is that they are coming from completely different lifestyles. Europeans had very poor diet, which consisted of mostly bread and soup. Those who did not starve were malnourished. Europe was filled with many diseases that killed much of Europe’s population. Native American survival was based on hunting and gathering. If they killed an animal they ate, if they failed to do so they went hungry. Native Americans lived under a democratic system and were separated into tribes and lived in tents. There was no such thing as rich or poor between tribes, which eliminated competition to move up the social ladder. Some tribes were very small, and to avoid being outrun by larger tribes, the