Compare And Contrast The Pilgrims And Indians

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.

The helping hands the Native Americans provided for the Englishmen was building crude huts for the Pilgrims. Common houses were provided on the shores of Plymouth Bay for the pilgrim. Squanto played the interpreter of the Indians for the Englishman. He had been kidnapped a decade before the pilgrimage and help translate for communication between the Natives and the Englishmen. Squanto played a teacher and fatherly role and taught the natives to farm with the soil the way he learned during the decade he had spent in the United Kingdom by using dried and decomposing fish to produce a stellar corn crop. This was a huge benefit the Natives served for the Englishmen.

Native Americans were discriminated against and forced out of their own lands because the Americans felt inferior towards them. In 1812 the British found themselves at war with the Americans and this was the Native peoples chance to once and for all defeat their white superiors. Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief but he was addressing Choctaws and Chickasaws because he is calling for Native American unity throughout the entire United States. He announces his alliance with the British who are fighting against the Americans in 1812. He urges other Native American tribes to do the same because they have a common enemy. Also, it will be harder to fight the Americans if they are a unified force instead of individual tribes all fighting the common enemy

The discovery of the New Land sparked an interest of many explorers in the European countries. The first officially recorded explorer to reach the New Land was Christopher Columbus. Historians have had different perspectives of different people in their history in exploring the New Land. In the two excerpt they have the same stories, yet highly different opinions of what is going on. The stories that are most mixed are about Christopher Columbus, Hernando Cortes, and the reason for why so many Indians were killed.

Both excerpts have very different ideas. The author's note is a much more summarized version of the story. However, they story by Diana Burns is much more detailed and has a much different viewpoint. The actual excerpt seems to take place through the eyes of an actual settler. Whereas, the author's note seems like a vague summary of what really happened and all the facts may not be factual. The author's note gives more backstory and straightforward facts.

Soon they were starving and digging up putrid Native corpses to eat or renting themselves out to American Indian families as servants” (p.84). Most textbooks also say that the Pilgrims made friends with the Native Americans and they taught them how to farm the best. In reality Loewen says “colonists appropriated American Indian cornfields for their initial settlements,avoiding the backbreaking labor of clearing the land of forest and rock” (p.85). That’s an incredibly different story than what is taught. Loewen also brings up the fact that despite popular belief, Columbus did not discover America. “Columbus’s voyage was not the first but the last “discovery” of the Americas” (p.33). He also talks about how much of an American hero Columbus is made to be, when he truly isn’t. “But most of them [textbook authors] leave out virtually everything that is important to know about Columbus and the European exploration of the Americas. Meanwhile, they make up all kinds of details to tell a better story” (p.32). Textbook authors never want to tell the whole

From the beginning the Pilgrims did not understand what they were getting into. They didn’t know prior to their arrival there was an epidemic that killed off most of the Native American population. The Pilgrims did not come to the New World empty handed either, but as they were running low on food they realized they didn’t know how to live off the land. If it wasn’t for Squanto, the Pilgrims would have never learned how to look for proper planting ground, or how to harvest their plantation. As it was, the Pilgrims were unbarring graves and taking whatever, whether they thought they needed it or they wanted it. The Pilgrims also stole the Native Americans food, without knowing they did. An eye witness wrote “We marched to a place we called Cornhill, where we found corn before. At another place we had seen before, we dug and found some more corn, tow or three baskets full,

Colonization By: Hansika Sangaraju Colonization was a time of adventure and hardships. Imagine you are in a small crooked shack which was supposed to be your home. Men working hard, while women were cleaning and doing housework. Colonies came up with what know today as government, they used different strategies and laws to keep order. Children were very different at that time, they entertained themselves in different ways with the resources they had, and were allowed to access.

Once the railroads were completed to the West it opened up vast parts of the region to economic and settlement development. White settlers poured across the Mississippi from the East to farm, mine, and ranch (Rise of industrial America, n. d.). African-American settlers from the Deep South came west convinced by the promoters they could settle in all-black towns with prosperity waiting on them. The railroad workers who were Chinese added to the region’s population diversity.

Squanto is a Native American who lived in the early seventeenth century in what is now the Northeast United States. When the English came to this area of America to settle, they became very fond of Squanto and used him as a translator due to his unique knowledge of the English language acquired through an earlier voyage to Europe. Squanto helped the Pilgrims adapt to their new surroundings by providing them with the knowledge that he and his ancestors used to survive when they first settled in this area. He became known as a friend to the English and a spokesman for his Native friends (Johnson p.2). However, in helping the English, Squanto realized the power he had obtained through his position and used it for his own gain

Squanto is a Native American who lived in the early seventeenth century in what is now the Northeast United States. When the English came to this area of America to settle, they became very fond of Squanto and used him as a translator due to his unique knowledge of the English language acquired through an earlier voyage to Europe. Squanto helped the Pilgrims adapt to their new surroundings by providing them with the knowledge that he and his ancestors used to survive when they first settled in this area. He became known as a friend to the English and a spokesman for his Native friends (Johnson p.2). However, in helping the English, Squanto realized the power he had obtained through his position and used it for his own gain

During the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Europeans started to come over to the new world, they discovered a society of Indians that was strikingly different to their own. To understand how different, one must first compare and contrast some of the very important differences between them, such as how the Europeans considered the Indians to be extremely primitive and basic, while, considering themselves civilized. The Europeans considered that they were model societies, and they thought that the Indians society and culture should be changed to be very similar to their own.

Native Americans and Europeans, specifically from England, had totally different social systems. These social systems were greatly affected by gender and the political economy. The Native Americans heavily emphasized reciprocity and the value of friendships, thus binding people together and creating lasting relationships. Europeans on the other hand were more focused on acts of trade and the free market economy. Since Europeans relied on a free market economy, owning land was a great way to contribute and show this. Land was very scarce and it showed others the amount of wealth and prestige one had. Since land in Europe was nowhere in sight, many people immigrated to North America in hopes to acquire land thus making them rich and move up in status. The class system was very much alive and defined in Europe. Men had all the power in the world because patriarchy prevailed during this time. However, the Native Americans had a completely different philosophy. Owning property or land never existed within this social system. The Natives did not value wealth or riches but rather friendships and respect. The biggest difference between the two groups was the focal points of the family. European families, towns, and governments revolved around men. Men dominated the household by controlling every aspect of the home and his wife. They represented their family and confined their wives at home. Native Americans had no social system but they greatly respected their female elders. It was

At first Native Americans, Europeans and Africans were separated by the vast oceans in between their continents, but as technologies and trade in Europe advanced the three region’s worlds collided. There were various similarities and differences in policy, economy and religion amongst the three regions but alas, contact between these empires reaped inevitable change among all these for the better or worse.

One day, a lone Indian man walked into the settlement. He raised his hand in friendship to the settlers. The Pilgrims welcomed this stranger named Samoset. Samoset introduced the Pilgrims to his chief, Massasoit, and his interpreter, Squanto. Squanto spoke English because he had been captured as a boy by traders who had come to the New World in search of slaves. Squanto was taken to England and lived there many years before returning to the New World. He alone understood that the Pilgrims did not know how to hunt or fish - that they would die without help in the New World.