Benefits Of Native American Settlers

The Puritans came to America in hopes of finding a religious haven. They were trying to separate from the thought to be corrupt Church of England in the seventeenth century. Although the Puritans agreed with some of the that views the Church of England had, most were too liberal for the them and they needed to start a more conservative church. The best place to start was a blank slate, the New World. Developing a new colony was a challenge for the Puritans, but they persevered in their endeavors.

In the former one, Jamestown was described as one of the first English colonies that was located in a territory owned by an Indian confederacy led by Powhatan. Powhatan allowed the English settlers to take his land without attacking. Relations between the Indians and the settlers were tense. Soon, the English attacked an Indian settlement, killing a few Indians and murdering the queen of the tribe. Zinn also explains how the English men pretended to be at peace with the natives, allowed them to settle down, and plant their crops wherever they want. It was during the harvest season that the white men would attack, burning all the crops and murdering the Indians. The American Pageant states how the Indians were “banished” from their lands and “separated” from the white areas of settlement. It was the natives’ unfortunate fate to fall victim to the progress of the Europeans. The book skips the gruesome details of how they cruelly massacred the Powhatans and instead glorifies the England’s destiny to colonize the New World. The Puritans who settled in Connecticut and Rhode Island lived in an unstable peace with the Pequot Indians. The murder of a white trader and an Indian-kidnaper became an excuse to start a war. The English raided the Pequot villages, set fire to the wigwams, and destroyed their crops as stated in

However, since the Europeans moving in, According to Takaki,“Ever since the arrival of the English strangers in Jamestown in 1607 and at Plymouth Rock in 1620, the Indians story had been one of stolen lands, sickness, suffering, starvation and sadness”(Takaki P.45). White people want to get more lands, therefore they used the dirty tricks lied to Indians in order to get the lands. According to Takaki, Indians have been removed to west of Mississippi, Indians were lived outside of border and living poorly. On the other hand, “he new comers such as British people they had took all of lands which were easily to grow crops, and the lands left were really hard to plant”(The Last Indians War). That also the why Indians are poor because they do not

Beginning in the early sixteen-hundreds and continuing throughout the seventeenth century, Puritans fled from England to North America mainly to escape persecution. Although the settlement started off primarily for religious reasons, the desire for land was an immense impact on the colonists’ decision to leave England. Upon the arrival in North America, the Puritans fabricated tensions between the natives as well as each other. The struggle between their religious beliefs and their strong desire for land increased along with claiming false accusations upon each other.

The Native Americans are in fact civilized, and this can be seen through their great strides in agricultural methodology and technology. Similar to Europeans, most Native Americans have graduated from hunting and gathering methods and have moved on to agriculture, as it is a more reliable source of food. As a result of the most recent expedition to the Americas, a group of pilgrims’ The Mayflower, a lot has been discovered about Native American agriculture. Although the Native Americans use primitive tools “made of stone, animal bone, and tortoise shell to grow crops of squash, pumpkins, gourds, sunflowers, and maize, their crops yielded far better results than Europeans’, and

The Native Americans had both positive and negative effects on their advancement as a people. The Paleo Archaic Woodland and Mississippian Indians each had their own lasting effect on their society. In this paper I will talk about the Positive Impacts of the Native Americans on their evolutionary progress.

The Plymouth colony that was part of the New England colonies, the Indians had rescued the floundering Plymouth settlement. The Samoset had accomplish the language of english from the contact that they had with sailors and fishermen that had visited the coast making repairs before the Plymouth settlers arrived. Wampanoag Indians also own territory in Plymouth. Squanto was a special instrument sent of god for the good of the Pilgrims. But also the Pilgrims managed the harvest enough food for the winter, in the other hand, Pennsylvania in numbers exceeded by the great Puritan migration to the New England. In the year of 1682 and 1685, almost eight thousand immigrant arrived to Pennsylvania. English economic policies toward the colonies were

“ 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.

Europeans came to the Americas for many different reasons. Religious freedom, adventure, gold, new opportunity, and land are a few of them. Perhaps the most serious was the different way that Europeans and Native Americans thought about land. Land was extremely important to European settlers because land meant wealth, in which they established many communities where they lived and worked. Many of the settlers in the new country could have never owned land in Europe because they were too poor. The Native Americans believed that no one could own land. They

Imagine a person bought something that the person valued. The person was the owner of the product and took good care of it.Then, all of a sudden, a stranger comes and takes that product and declares it “discovered”. Now since the stranger “discovered” it, the product now has to be shared among them. This is similar to what happened to Native Americans in North America. Native Americans owned and lived in North America for several thousand years. Then, all of a sudden, European explorers came to North America and claimed the land “discovered”. Europeans started moving into the land and later, started sharing the land. Encounters between Europeans and Native Americans in the colonial era led to the exchange of diseases with Native Americans,

Even though they couldn’t make the Indians work for them because they outnumbered the settlers they still took their land Zinn states “The Pequot tribe lived in the southern Connecticut and Rhode Island. The colonists wanted this land, so the war with the Pequots began. Massacres took place on both sides...After the Europeans began taking the land, the number of indians was reduced until, in time, fewer than a million remained” (17, Zinn). The colonists went to war with the Indians because they wanted their land. The colonists would massacre the tries and The indians would do the same but as Europeans began taking more and more land the population of Indians diminished. This quote portrays that colonists took the Indians land and gained power along with it. More land meant more power because they needed space to grow crops and then sell them and enslaving the Africans was a more profitable and ever-renewable source of labor.When they got there they settled in the Indians land and they tried to massacre them to take their land. Zinn writes “So you killed the Indians, tortured them, burned their villages, burned their cornfields” (25, Zinn) Another reading states “they set fire to wigwams,and as the indians ran out to escape the flames, the English cut them to bits with their swords” (20, Zinn) The English would

When Europeans came to the American continent, contact with the Native Americans who were already living there was inevitable. In the colonization of early America, the various groups of European settlers: the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch each had unique experiences with, and therefore individual opinions of the Native Americans whom they interacted. Each of these nations also shared commonalties in their colonization processes and in how they viewed Native Americans. Furthermore, the Native Americans held differing opinions of each group of Europeans whom they encountered while some features of their relationships with Europeans were consistent despite the tribe or nation involved.

Indians from this point began to be dehumanized even further. Due to the color of their skin they were associated with the Devil. The settlers believed that Indians must be removed in order to progress in the settling of our land. ?God was making room for the colonists and hath hereby cleared our title to this place? (Takaki, 40). The early Puritans believed that they were meant to spread their religion and beliefs across the entire land.

The colonies in New England began as a religious voyage. New England colonists, consisted of Puritans and Pilgrims, wanted to escape religious persecution in England. Pilgrims were Separatists and wanted to completely separate from the Church of England. The Puritans believed that they could reform the Church of England. For both of these groups, they believed that they could solve their problems by voyaging to the New World and establishing their own colonies. Through a belief of hard work and through God’s help, many predicted that these colonies would be a model for the world. Life in the New England colonies was brutal, especially the winter. During the winter of 1620-1621, only 44 out of 102 colonists managed to survive in the Plymouth colony. Most of the colonies relied upon farming for their source of food. For Plymouth, an English-speaking Indian named Squanto helped the colonists learn farming techniques. Government structure was significantly different in the New England colonies. In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, representative government was frowned upon. Only the “saved” were allowed voting rights. Both Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colony had governors, just like in Virginia. Unlike Virginia colonies, the New England colonies’ religious leaders held the highest positions in the town. These religious leaders were very influential in political matters as well as enforcing religious rules. The colonists’ relations with the Indians were very similar to the Virginia colonies. At first, colonies tried to cooperate with the Native Americans. However, when colonists pushed westward, conflict was imminent. Many New England colonists believed the New World was the “Devil’s Homeland.” As a result, they believed that the Indians were devil worshippers. This added even more tension between the colonists and natives. Eventually, the tension between the

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