Early American Culture Research Paper
One of the most neglected aspects of early American history is the part that native peoples played in its culture, development and institutions.
With out the natives, English settlers could not have survived the new land. While trading their metal tools and other goods, the natives gave them food supplies for the English to survive. At times the Indians showed generosity in providing gifts of food to the colony. On other occasions, encounters between the colonists and the tribes turned violent, and the Native Americans occasionally killed colonists who strayed alone outside the fort. (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-247837/Jamestown-Colony#849030.hook) In fact the dependency on food that the English settlers had was so great that Captain
With out the natives, English settlers could not have survived the new land. While trading their metal tools and other goods, the natives gave them food supplies for the English to survive. At times the Indians showed generosity in providing gifts of food to the colony. On other occasions, encounters between the colonists and the tribes turned violent, and the Native Americans occasionally killed colonists who strayed alone outside the fort. (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-247837/Jamestown-Colony#849030.hook) In fact the dependency on food that the English settlers had was so great that Captain