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Colonial Assimilation With Native Indians

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There alot of romanticized assumptions on this thread. There is no conclusive evidence that the colonists assimilated with the Native tribes. This evidence along with oral history is very problematic. First one would have to re examine known history as well as look through the understanding of both the tribes and the colonists. European colonists historically did not assimilate into other societies upon coming to the New World. They may have co existed but no reliable accounts of assimilation. One would have to assume that Europeans looked upon Natives as equals ( which they did not), and that also Europeans settlers were all willingly to set aside their religion and their traditions to become part of a race of people they viewed as heathen

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