We Shall Remain Analysis

Over the course of the 17th century, the relationship between the English colonies and the Native Americans changed drastically. At first, there was a peaceful relationship and the two groups even helped each other out; but, as time passed, the relationship began to deteriorate and the two groups became hostile towards each other.

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.

As the Europeans came to the New World in the 1600s, relationships with Native Americans were unstable in some places and secure in others. In the Chesapeake region, every colony had a different relationship with the Native Americans but overtime both groups became distanced from each other as wars erupted. Furthermore, in the New England colonies there were a few places that had close relationships with them and others that opposed the Native Americans. During the colonization periods, although the Europeans may have been disruptive to a few Native American tribes, they continued to trade and have alliances with a few tribes, which contributed to their survival in the New World. Throughout the time of colonization, as more people

When people of two different cultures meet, they often have unjustified negative perceptions each other. Such was the case of the Europeans and the Native Americans during the Age of Exploration. Native Americans would sometimes attack the settlers and look down upon them in disdain. In turn, the Europeans would fight back while also calling the natives “savages.” These hostile exchanges frequently occur because their leaders think too much about the differences between the groups that they forget the similarities in that they are all humans. Perceptions often change when those of different cultures put aside those differences and begin to cooperate with each other in a common goal. In fact, that is exactly what happened when William Bradford and his group of pilgrims came to Cape Cod. Initially, there was an

The early relations with the natives were a mix of cooperation and conflict. This goes back to Verrazzano reporting that the natives were willing to trade with them, but were not willing to put their trust in the Europeans. Then on the other end of the spectrum, we have Powhatan. He wanted to absorb the Europeans into their own ways through hospitality and gifts. “By 1609, [he] realized that the English intended to stay. Moreover, he was disappointed that the English did not return his hospitality nor would they marry Indian women (an affront from the Native perspective).” (Colonial Settlement)

The arrival of the ‘foreigners’, as referred to by the Native Americans, turned a new stone in Native American diplomacy. No longer did they have to only deal with neighboring tribes, as they were forced to endeavor into politics with strangers who were looking to take their land. The first relationship between the pilgrims and the Native Americans began with the Wampanoag tribe. The relations between the two groups paved the view that the pilgrims had towards the Indians. The decently friendly relationship that stood between the two groups was short lived as the pilgrims felt that the indians were getting in the way of their expansion; and shortly after the friendship ceased to exist (Bell, 37).

In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean and discovered what we now know as the Americas… or so it’s been taught. In all actuality, there were already Native people who had been living in the continents for thousands of years. Since 1937, the US has used this “discovery” as a holiday known as Columbus Day to celebrate a man who established the beginning of colonization of the New World. While Columbus did begin the colonization of the Americas, he was not the one who discovered them. History tends to be told from the privileged perspective which is why it’s taught that Columbus discovered these lands. The celebration of Columbus Day promotes the idea of colonization and the marginalization of Native Americans; people also believe it

The stories regarding the Native Americans and European settlers all commence somewhat similar: the Natives welcome and help sustain the Europeans in the start. They become an instrumental piece to the European survival in the Americas. The relationship starts to change, however, as settlers grow independent. In some instances, when there is only personal gain to be acquired, the relationship becomes a simple trade relationship. In other instances, relationships between the Native Americans and Europeans evolve into a drastic feud driven by European imperialistic ideas to impose political, religious and cultural law on the Natives.

Where irreconcilable differences amongst two communities persist, conflict will arise. During the colonization of the Americas in the 1600s and 1700s, while European settlers searched for places to settle and thrive, they had numerous encounters with Native Americans. However, repeated patterns of distrust, cultural differences, and greed have kept the Europeans and Native Americans from forming peaceful relations with each other. Even after various efforts, European settlers and Native Americans could not have maintained a peaceful and harmonious relationship.

“The Pilgrims did not introduce the tradition; Eastern Indians had observed autumnal harvest celebrations for centuries.” (Loewen, pg. 90) When surveying students, Loewen found that students recalled all too much of the euphoric stories of Squanto helping his beloved Pilgrim friends and the Mayflower compact as the forerunner to our constitution. Not only have the students been mislead, but most simply have no idea of the truth. Could it be mere chance that students seem to miss the plague that destroyed nearly everything in its path? “Within three years the plague wiped out between 90 to 96 percent of the inhabitants of coastal New England.” (Loewen, pg. 75) Is this something not worth mentioning in an American history course? The fact is, to most textbook authors it really isn’t worth mentioning. Bringing a disease to a new land and wiping out nearly all of its inhabitants in no way can lead to any sort of honorable tale of glorious American triumph. This seems like a task not even the lying, manipulating authors could handle. On observing high school textbooks, Loewen found that of twelve textbooks “only three of them even mentioned Indian disease as a factor at Plymouth or anywhere in New England.”

When I imagine “The First Thanksgiving”, I think of peace and harmony. Then my History complex comes in, I remember all of the rape, cannibalism, and disease spreading that happened in the years before “The First Thanksgiving” ruin my picture perfect scene. The Pilgrims did not have a farming aspect when they came to The New Colony but with the help of the Native Americans they learned how to survive. When I was younger we always were taught that this time, in history, everyone got along and they were happy. The Pilgrims came to have religious freedom and not to be treated as second class citizens. This is a notable act but they had various pathogens that they were immuned to but the Natives were not. Historians say that the pathogens that

From 1500 to 1610, relations between indigenous peoples and Europeans had a large variance relying primarily on the point of view you took in the time period. To indigenous peoples, relations with Europeans were copiously taken up by conflict, with Europeans using advanced weaponry, disease, and technology to take natives’ land. When Jamestown was first settled in the early 1600s, there was constant warfare between the Powhatans and the colonists. For the indigenous peoples, these contacts were essentially negative because of the deadly combination of disease, conflict, and terror presented by the Europeans. However, from the European point of view, contacts between Europeans and indigenous peoples were certainly essentially positive. In the mid 1500s, Spanish missionary activity was captivating monumental amounts of indigenous people and converting them to Catholicism. Additionally, contacts with the indigenous people were beneficial for the Europeans because it gave them a stable source of labor in the late 1500s, displayed when the Spanish using them for their encomienda system. Through all these beneficial side effects,

The first settlers called Paleo Indians were already natives to the land. When people like Christopher Columbus came over to explore the New World brought new ideas. The pilgrims were living under the laws that Great Brittan was forcing on them. This forced them to leave the laws of King James and come to the New World so they could get their independents by going from one leader (King) to govern their own selves and not take orders from other people. The Native Americans showed the Pilgrims how to live off the land. Once they created a great harvest they celebrated it and called this the first Thanksgiving. To show their appreciation and show how thankful they were, they invited the Native Americans. “There had been the Sugar Act in 1764, the Stamp Act the following year, and a variety of other laws that were meant to get money from the colonists for Great

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