Relationship Between French, Spanish, And Native Americans

The 16th and 17th centuries were characterized by a want for three things: gold, glory, and God. Countries sent explorers and settlers to the New World to stake a claim on these coveted ideals. Among these countries, France, England, and Spain emerged most prominent. Their most diverse and interesting encounter was with the Native Americans, who seemed to be everywhere. All of the relationships between these major players and the Native Americans involved religion and ended badly. The French, English, and Spanish all tried to covert the Native Mericans to their religions, thinking that would be better for them. However, they hurt them; the French used them to ward off the English, the Spanish raided their towns, and the English fought with them for territory. Therefore, the settler’s relationship with the Native Americans hurt their culture. The French immigrants settled in the Midwest, specifically Louisiana, the Great Lakes, and Canada. The Indians in …show more content…
The French, English, and Spanish pushed their way of life, specifically religion, upon the Indians to the point of breakage. The Spanish destroyed their settlements, looking for gold, the French used them as spies and to ward off the English, and the English took the Indian’s food and drove them off of their land. Each of those countries accomplished what they set out to get in the New World: God , Glory, and Gold. Negatively, they had to completely oppress the Native Americans. The different relationships each nation held with the Natives led to different practices of life in that particular region. Though the Natives were nearly universally destroyed, traces of their culture still remain in their native