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A 7 page assessment of the contention “For both (European and Native Americans) survival and the enhancement of their own culture were the paramount objective” made by author Gary Nash in “Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America”. This paper illustrates the interaction between Native Americans and the French, Dutch, Spanish, and English to conclude that while there were certain differences in the manner in which each of these groups dealt with the Native Americans, the common goal was the decimation of the Native culture as a whole. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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during colonial times were a seething continent of discontent both as a result of the bitter interaction which was unfolding between the Native Americans and between the various factions of
the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in regard to their interaction with the Native Americans
werent, after all, the only European invader in this land. There were also the Dutch, Swedes, French, and the Spanish and all had their share of problems both with
the Native Americans and with other Europeans. Many times, in fact, Native Americans were successful in capitalizing on the problems which existed between the Europeans. More often than
not, however, it was the Native Americans who lost the most in the seething cauldron of colonial discontent. Native alliances with the various
European factions varied both according to the time period and according to group. Rather than acting as a united body to deal with the white encroachers the tremendously diverse
Native Americans found their interests and allegiances split. This diversion of interests is no better illustrated than in the Southeast. There the Choctaw would ally themselves with the
French and would have extensive warfare with the Chickasaw. The Creeks on the other hand played with allegiances to each of the main colonial powers, English, French and Spanish.
The Creeks would have extensive warfare with the Cherokee because of territorial overlap and because of the Cherokees eventual alliance with the English after the Seven Years War.
The different alliances which were chosen by Native American groups during colonial times accounts for only one of the factors which served
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