The relationship Native Americans held with the Spanish, the French, and the English were of crucial importance to the development of colonial North America, it was one of the factors that shaped North America to what it is now. From the very first contact with Europeans, to the Americans declaring independence on July 1776 from the mother nation, Great Britain, the Native Americans were always present and because of their influence and the roles their relationships played with the different powers it gradually shaped colonial North America. The Native Americans had benefits from the exploration to the new world because the settlers brought with them new technology and trade, but unfortunately they also brought diseases and their thirst for
