Relationship Between Europeans And Native Americans

When the Europeans first tried to move into the present day United States of America, it was a time of great change for the Native Americans. Many of the Native American tribes had never come in contact with the Europeans before, and many knew that the life they used to live would not be available to them anymore. While the two groups may have started off being eery of one another, the attitude between the two group definitely deteriorated over time: the Native Americans felt that the Europeans stole their land, the Europeans felt that the Native Americans were to be killed, but there were some Europeans that felt that the Native Americans had suffered enough. The Europeans’ main goals in coming to the present day United States of America was to take land and to use it as a way to make money. However the land that they were using belonged to the Native Americans, thus leaving them to starve while taking advantage of their land. As seen in this quote by a Narragansett Leader complaining about English Encroachment in 1642, “But these English having gotten our land, they with scythes cut down the grass, and with axes fell the trees; their …show more content…
A Spanish monk felt that what the Europeans were doing to the Natives made them not true Christians, “And from the said year 1518, till the present day (and we are in 1542) all the iniquity, all the injustice, all the violence and tyranny that the Christians have practised in the Indies have reached the limit and overflowed: because they have entirely lost all fear of God and the King, they have forgotten themselves as well…” (Bartolome). This Spanish monk felt that the violence that the Europeans were partaking in made them not true Christians and in a way the religious influence had a negative effect on the way the other Europeans viewed the violence that was occurring around