Argumentative Essay: Natives Vs. Native Americans

Explorers vs.. Native Americans The interactions made between the Native Americans and Europeans were made by violence. The first argument is that native americans and the europeans often fought over land, food, and clothing. The second argument is that although some people believed in different religions everyone had to follow the same both the explorers and natives. The third argument is that the natives and explorers used to be one nation This explains that the Natives and Explorers did not get along at all. My thesis is that while the interactions between the explorers and natives were expressed by violence, ultimately they treated the natives like slaves therefore they were forced to do things they did not want to do. The explorers and natives fought through violence if they did not get what they wanted. The explorers would beat them, that includes the women, men, and children, they were also often called slaves if they did not get along.While the natives exchanged fish, roots, and any type of food that you hunt down, in exchange for that the explorers gave them beads, …show more content…
Most of the natives knew how to work together unlike the explorers. I feel like the explorers would be the ones who would not get along because of how selfish they were. I also feel like the natives were the more greedy ones than the explorers and more well behaved than they were. Going back to saying that both the natives and explorers used to be one, from the story “Red Jacket” The quote “They found friends not enemies but all turned against us.”Typically I think that since the natives thought the explorers were going to share land they thought of them being friends. The explorers called the Natives Untaught savages. But also the natives could be the enemies because of exchanging poison for