English Colonists Treatment Of Native Americans

Before, during, and after the Civil War, American settlers irreversibly changed Indian ways of life. These settlers brought different ideologies and convictions, such as property rights, parliamentary style government, and Christianity, to the Indians. Clashes between the settlers and Indians were common over land rights and usage, religious and cultural differences, and broken treaties. Some Indian tribes liked the new ideas and began to incorporate them into their culture by establishing written laws, judicial courts and practicing Christianity, while other tribes rejected them (“Treatment”). Once the United States purchased Louisiana from the French in 1803, Americans began to encroach into the Indian lands of the south and west

Another reason the relationship between the Natives and the British were not as good, was those coming over for religious freedom. For instance, the Puritans did not have a strong relationship between the Natives. Puritanism was a type of Christianity and they believed there was only one God. On the other hand, the Native Americans believed differently. They believed that everyone was equal. The Puritans put their faith above everything while the Natives had actions, like dancing and rituals. Also, the Puritans believed in selling land while Natives did not. As one can assume that would not settle for a healthy relationship. The Puritans treated the Natives with disrespect due to the fact they had different beliefs. As Document 1 states, years later, the Indian religion would convert to Christianity. The Quakers also came over to the “New World” for religious freedom. The way the British treated the Natives is similar to the way the Nazis treated the Jews. The Jews and the natives were both looked down upon for a certain amount of time. The two groups’ social rank was at the bottom, based on their stance on their religion. Both groups were also murdered for their beliefs. The relationship between Natives and Quakers was different than the relationship of the Puritans and Natives. Very soon, the Quakers began to realize that their actions toward the

In 1607 english went to the james river , the native had to be taught the ways of jesus christ. 15,000 powhatan indians lived in around the james river . Many colonists died in jamestown because indian attacks. In Document B Frederick Fauz’s is abundance in 1990 , the chart describes how english settlers die in 1607-1610. According to doc B 542, 150 out of the 542 english people were killed by the native americans . according to doc B there were a total of 150 english colonists were killed by the native americans. Doc B shows that the native american killed the english colonist but why ? The english were killed by the native american because the english had to have land and they did but the kept on bringing more and more english colonists

When the English settlers began their colonization of America, they were unsure on how to approach the indigenous people. They were not prepared for a war initially, nor did they have all of the supplies required to survive. In chapter one of, Lethal Encounters Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia, Albert Cave describes Sir Walter Raleigh’s decisions about the Roanoke colonial and Indian policies. Raleigh instructed the settlers to treat the Natives with ‘kindness and generosity’ (Cave, Lethal Encounters Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia, pg 11). The English settlers recognized the

For the colonists, they were seeking to expand and seek fortune in North America. Whereas the Native Americans simply wanted to keep the land they once had with very few problems. It makes me believe that the wars between Natives and colonists were not completely fair. Both had advantages and disadvantages, but the Natives should have had sovereignty over their land. The English mistreated the Natives, and some may argue that the Natives treated the colonists harshly. However, this mistreatment was

In the time where the colonists came to Jamestown the land around them which is now Virginia was occupied with a surplus of native americans which is shown in the Hook Exercise: Jamestown which is a map of Jamestown and all the Powhatan settlements around them which there were many of. To further emphasise how many natives there were is shown in the Background Essay where it said “Some 15,000 Powhatan Indians lived in small villages along and around Jamestown River.” In comparison Jamestown only have 110 inhabitants to the natives 15,000. The threat of the natives is why the colonists originally went to the island of Jamestown which gave them protection from the natives in form of a river. If the colonists threatened by the natives they could have inhabited the land around Jamestown keeping them away from brackish water and instead closer to ponds of fresh water which would partially eliminates disease and completely eliminate disease. The colonists additionally made a problem with planning when they decided to bring no soldiers as seen in Document C which could be used to defend them or use to fight for land. The colonists could have had a good chance at surviving if they had decided to make a beneficial relationship with the natives but instead they screwed up and got the natives angered at them, this relationship is shown

The colonists and native Indians traded with each other and helped each other stay alive in spite of unhealthy water supply and harsh climate. The Powhatan tribe even saw the English as good traders because the English brought valuable new goods, which gave their leader power. The English decided that the most profitable product for the land was to farm tobacco in present day Virginia because of its ideal climate and conditions. This caused the English’s relationship with the natives to fail because the English no longer needed to rely on Indian’s labor and goods. Tobacco had become popular in Europe and therefore provided a boost for England’s declining

The English could not come over here and live together with the Indians. The Indians were a group that was unholy and beneath them. They had to progress their culture and their beliefs and mark out that of their opponents. Americans sought to cleanse the land of these savage beasts and further their own society.

They had no grand plans of riches and exploration for the crown, merely desired the freedom to worship as they pleased and start a new life away from England. Once there, though many intentions were good, the English repeatedly cheated the natives out of resources and land, leading to unrest with the tribes. Early on, the colonists treated the natives as humans and attempted to convert them to Christianity, but that quickly changed. The Indian population went from about 2 million to 1 million after a couple decades of exposure to European diseases at the time when Jamestown was settled1. Indians did not understand the ownership of land the same way the British settlers did, which led to an abuse by this obscure definition.

The Spanish came to the New World with the idea that they were going to practically enslave, convert, or kill the natives. Because of this the Spanish’s treatment for the natives was terrible and very early on. They would use natives to help them find gold and do other manual labor activities. The missionaries would attempt to convert them to Christianity and because a lot would not comply they would end up killing them. Early on the British settlers’ relationship with the native Americans is very different. At first, they were friendly. The first British settlers in a way to live on the Native Americans. North America them was very different from Great Britain, and the Native Americans had lived there for very long time. So, the British settlers took advantage of that and began to trade with the Native Americans and use them in order to help their new settlement survive. Although the Spanish and British relationship with the natives differed at first eventually they both ended up doing the same exact thing. They both killed the Native Americans and cause their societies to be displaced. Even though there and goals were different they both used the exploitation of Native Americans in order to achieve these goals.

     In the sixteenth century, England was one of the most powerful countries in the world. England was also in dire need of money at this time. In an effort to alleviate the country’s financial burdens, King Henry VIII decided to seize land owned by the Catholic Church. Henry then sold the already inhabited land to investors, and its residents were forced out. These people and their descendants would eventually become some of the fortune-seeking colonists that would settle America during England’s try at Imperialism.

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,

Whether by means of seizures or monetary acquisition, colonists procured the lands of Native Americans, which furthered their demise. With the European arrival at Jamestown, colonists simply established a settlement on Indian land without giving them any consideration. Over time, as colonists’ population

The fascination with Native Americans has been a constant with outsiders since explorers first “discovered” the New World. The biggest surge in this fascination came in the mid-19th century when the Indian Wars were starting to come to an end and the belief that Native Americans were disappearing, walking into the sunset never to be seen again. This led to an increase in the collecting of anything Native American, from artifacts to stories to portraits. The inevitable outcome of this was that Native Americans, who were never considered very highly to begin with, where now moved into a category of scientific interest to be study. This scientific interest in Native Americans is what many museums and other institutions based their collections and exhibits on and is one of the issues that many Native Americans have with how both their people and their culture were, and to some extent still are, represented in these places.

Native Americans were soon portrayed as savage animals because of the lack of understanding of the Settlers. The culture of the Native Americans was so different from the culture of the English that the English would soon look at the natives as inferior. The Native Americans were deemed hostile, bestial, cursed by God, primitive beings with inferior knowledge and language. Also the English commonly thought of them as crafty, brutal, loathsome, cannibalistic and promiscuous. These negative images of the Native Americans grew from stories passed from settler to settler which were commonly misinterpretations with very little truth. The English have developed a long history of moving in to land foreign to there’s and exploiting the local people for their prosperity. The dealings between English and the Native Americans would prove to be no different from England’s previous dealings foreign lands.