The Native Americans who lived on American land first got forced off their lands by the elites and manipulated into trading with the colonists. The elites looked at the natives as strange and did not know how to approach them at first, for example, “many Virginians and New Englanders perceived Native Americans as inferior because they spoke in strange tongues, cultivated with hoes rather than plows, and had no concept of property accumulation” (Clark 47). The first colonists to America “would explore the Indians’ world, report on it, attempt to understand it and to conceive ways of exploiting it” (Bailyn, p.46). The colonists that came to America never had moral intentions towards the Native Americans; it always seemed about what the colonists could get from the natives. The colonists seemed solely interested in gaining all of the land they could get and force off as many Native Americans as they
The Native Americans who lived on American land first got forced off their lands by the elites and manipulated into trading with the colonists. The elites looked at the natives as strange and did not know how to approach them at first, for example, “many Virginians and New Englanders perceived Native Americans as inferior because they spoke in strange tongues, cultivated with hoes rather than plows, and had no concept of property accumulation” (Clark 47). The first colonists to America “would explore the Indians’ world, report on it, attempt to understand it and to conceive ways of exploiting it” (Bailyn, p.46). The colonists that came to America never had moral intentions towards the Native Americans; it always seemed about what the colonists could get from the natives. The colonists seemed solely interested in gaining all of the land they could get and force off as many Native Americans as they