European Influence On Native Americans

Europeans settle the America continent as their focus is the conversion of the natives into Europeans. The white population grow rapidly as deals is made. The westward movement push the Indian more distant from the Atlantic shore. As a result, the Indians land are no longer untouchable and the final invasion of Indians homeland begin with the Daves Act of 1887.
There are many ways that the Europeans impact the Indians through changes. The Europeans settle in the Indian world change such as the living habit and the use of tools and weapons. The hunting tribe is change from a subsistence to a commercial type of hunting with the weapons that they got from Europeans traders in the northern region. At the point when beaver vanished from northern New York and the Iroquois countries confront an aggregate loss of a rich exchange and the political energy to which they were usual before the entry of the Europeans, they swing to brutality as a method for convincing the tribes more remote west to bring their hides into Iroquois nation as opposed to Canada.
The Europeans have misunderstood the Indians way.
The Europeans want to modify the Indian practices with their efforts by the respect to Indians land use and it influence the relationship between the two races. The Europeans attitudes toward the Indian is due to the lack of knowledge of them as they describe the Indians as “savages.” In The Indian Princess, Smith is exploring the forest as the Indians is following him behind. In the lyrics, Smith is describing the Indians as “savages”: Will echo to the yell of savage beasts/ And savage men more merciless. Alas! (scene 4, act 1). Smith and other Europeans just arrive at the Powhatan River as they already have the attitudes by calling the Indians, “savages.” The Europeans did not know that the Indians hunt for food and planted fields of corn, beans, squash, and
tobacco.
The Indians have a hard time accepting the Europeans ways and incorporate them into their own lives. The Europeans believes that they need the opportunity, educators and statesmen to make it clear and visible to the Indian people as Indians could be educate or civilized. In The Indian Princess, Smith is capture by Pocahontas’ brother, Nantaquas and questions him as to why he travels so far into the Indians land. Smith tells him that the Great Spirit is the friend of the white man and they have arts that the red man (Indians do not know. Smith also tells Nantaquas that the white man is here to make the red man wise and happy.
It is noted in the play that Pocahontas cross the borders between the Europeans and the Indians as she saves Smith from death against her father’s wishes by risking her own life as the Indians think that Smith is danger to them. Not only that Pocahontas wish to preserve Smith from harm, she also welcomes the Europeans as bringers of wisdom along with Nataquas. She and the Europeans have a friendship relation with each other. Smith and Rolfe receives the benefit of Pocahontas’ physical charms and her status of being the princess of the Indian chief, Powhatan, the Indians is given the blessing of white civilization and is civilized. As a result, the play overall challenges the relation with The Europeans and the Indians