The Relationship Between Europeans And Native Americans

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The relationship between the Native Americans and the Europeans acted like a teeter totter/ see saw. They fought and killed one another. The first Thanksgivings occurred with them. They had hard feuds with one another but also had a time of peace. If foreign people came and entered your land and opposed as a threat, took you captive or vice versa you took them captive how would you feel? Angry? The Native Americans would capture the whites and starve them, but yet the foreigners would still try to be nice to them. The Europeans thought the Indians were savages who only knew how to hunt and kill. Scared for their life to end they would kill the natives, which cause fights to sprawl out between them and cause chaos and non-stop fighting and killing. It was almost as if it was a situation like we’re neutral, but cross us you’re dead.…show more content…
When the pilgrims came to America they met an Indian by the name of Samoset who informed them of another who could speak better English than himself. The Indian tribe taught the Europeans how to farm and to hunt which gave them a better chance of survival. In the short story “from of Plymouth Plantation” peace was made with the help of rules (P.72) 1.”That neither he nor any of his should injure or do hurt any of their people”, 2.”That if any of his did hurt to any of his he shall send the offender, that they might punish him”(p.72). Some more examples of peace between them in a part of a short story “Offer of Help” It talks about working with one another. “.. If the Gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons; we will take great care of their education, instruct them is all we know and make men of them”(p.108). They were willing to teach others to help live a different way of life in a new
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