Europeans vs. Native Americans

Europeans vs. Native Americans

In the beginning, the Native Americans welcomed the new settlers with open arms. They taught the Europeans how to hunt, fish, and generally survive in their new land. The Indians traded with them, but sooner or later conflict flared and when Indians started dieng of diseases brought over by these new people, the settlers doing very little to help them. After their entrance into the Native American territory, the Europeans started wanting more power, and took more Indian land and held the natives to live on reservations. They became crookes who stole from the Indians, who originally had lived there and been there for thousands of years before these new settlers. The settlers did everything in their power to get what they wanted; they killed thousands of Indians and took what they needed. The settlers also wanted goods such as gold, buffalo, and other resources of this new land. They made the Indians do their dirty work and forced them to go out and get the goods. When resistance started against the new settlers in the Native American reservations, pure chaos broke out between the 2 groups of people. The settlers always overtook the Indians due to their gun power as opposed to the Indians bows and arrows. In conclusion, the settlers brought with them many new diseases which over time killed off most of the Native Americans. There are many reasons for the Indians to oppose the Europeans, but undoubtedy not as many reasons for the settlers to rival the Indians except for their own needs. The settlers killed an innumerable amount of Indians for no legitimate reason whatsoever, besides for their own selfish needs as opposed to those of the Indians.

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