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and indirect and differed slightly between the different mother countries. Southern British colonies (both low country and Chesapeake), New England, the middle colonies, Spanish colonies, and the French colonies
all interacted on slightly different levels with the Native American peoples. This is not surprising given that these colonies were different in themselves. Each, however, was directly affected
as well by the tumultuous relationship that ultimately emerged in each case between the colonists and the Native American peoples with whom they interacted. British colonists were for the
most part limited in their dealings with the Natives of the lands they colonized. They preferred largely to operate autonomously, depending more on interaction with the respective mother countries
than with the Native Americans. The English themselves were undergoing political changes, however, that impacted their actions in the colonies. The English were desperately straining against the bit
of absolute monarchy. The English Parliamentarians and Royalists were fighting back in the mother country between 1641 and 1651 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 ultimately resulted in the
deposition of James II and the end of absolute monarchy. These developments, if anything, however, only hardened their view of themselves as being better than Native Americans in some
way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did they want to understand it. Part of this misunderstanding can be attributed to the lack of
communication that existed between the cultures. As Sayre (2009) points out, there were few who understood Algonquian and, even when the opportunity presented itself, the English and the colonists
didnt take advantage of those that could. Mostly, however, the whites of this time period simply refused to accept the Native Americans as fellow human beings. The French, in
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