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A 3 page review of the interactions that occurred during colonial times between Native Americans and the Europeans that invaded their lands. The author observes differences in colonial administration and goals Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the so-called New World was actually an invasion of a world already well occupied and well utilized by the indigenous peoples of that world. The interactions that occurred between
Native Americans and the Europeans that invaded their land varied according to time and circumstance. Although there were many instances of amiable relationships, in most cases these soon deteriorated.
Whether we consider the Spanish, English, Dutch or French, Europeans had one goal in their interactions with Native Americans. That goal was profit.
The European invasion of Native American lands started in the east and progressed westward rapidly leaving a sometimes violent and bloody wake. The diplomacy and politics which
unfolded in that wake varied somewhat according to mindset, however. The English and the Dutch, for example, initially had limited dealings with the Natives of the areas they colonized,
preferring to operate their colonies as autonomously as possible, depending more on interaction with the respective mother countries than with the Native Americans. Although each managed to live peacefully
alongside Native Americans for short periods of time, these interludes were always eventually broken with war. The Dutch relatively quickly fell
out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in contrast, quickly became one of the most successful of the northern European colonizers,
eventually extending their range all the way into the interior of the new continent. Although the northern Europeans were not necessarily interested in exploiting the labor of the Native
Americans, they were interested in their lands (Foner and Garraty, 1991). They valued Native land for farming, range land and for whatever other natural resources it could offer.
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