Difference Between European Settlers And American Indians

round 1789-1837, European settlers began creating changed to the new land to build a nation. However, these changes were made not in considerate of American Indians who were on the land before their arrival. Therefore, a more fair proposal for building the new nation would be to shared the land and providing a hand to help benefit one another; the Europeans can educated the Indians schoolwise and the Indians can help the Europeans become more one with the nature.’ According to Stewart Udall in The Land Wisdom of the Indians, the two groups had different concepts of landownership. Rather than claiming the land as their property, the Indians were bonded with the land through nature. As a result, “the confrontation of Indians and whites had in it the seeds of hopeless misunderstanding from the start”(405). Because of this misunderstanding, the Englishmen forcefully attacked to Indians for land by removing them and trying to change them in to civilized beings. In addition to the sudden invasion, the American …show more content…
For instance, those “who are wise, must know that different nations have different conceptions of things; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours”(Franklin 219). Benjamin Franklin’s statement highlights how differences are common in different nations and it should be accepted rather than judged. Unlike the missionaries who would only accept one religion, Red Jacket explicitly states,“Brother, we do not wish to destroy your religion, or take it from you; we only want to enjoy our own”(288). As a representative of the American Indians, the Seneca chief’s proposition exemplifies their acceptance of another religion but prefers to worship their own. Furthermore, the Europeans and Indians could have benefited one another if they had negotiate instead of fighting and