European Settlers Encounter Analysis

Land was very important to the Europeans. And especially the European settlers coming to the new land. In England land meant that you were very wealthy. If you owned large amounts of land you also could have been someone with a lot of political power. The majority of the settlers could never have owned land in Europe because they were very poor. They were just lucky that they got a spot on the ship. They also belonged to religious groups that didn’t have a lot of power. In the new world no one owned large amounts of land because they still haven’t explored and everyone has to be cramped together. Major companies in Europe needed to find people willing to make the very dangerous journey across the ocean to the the new country, so they offered
to give land to anyone who would take that chance of death. It was a dream for many people who couldn’t afford land in the old world. It was a way to make many lives better in every way. The land they received gave them all a chance to become either wealthy or powerful or both.
Native Americans believed nobody could own any land. They believed that anyone could use it for anything besides permanent living. Anyone who wanted to grow crops or hunt for meat on land was allowed to. They lived with nature and tried not to disturb its tranquility or usefulness. They were able to do this very easily because they understood the land on which they lived and how mother nature react to certain things that they did. They did not change or add anything to the land that might hurt nature and the sanctity of the land. They would farm and hunt in a specific place for several years, then they would move along to another area and start the whole thing over again. The land on which they left never really ran out of natural supplies. There was always some that they left so that everything that was once there could grow back into what it was before. The Indians believed that nature was everywhere and made it work to their advantage. The entire tip that the European’s went on had been entirely for the sole purpose of finding new land to plant and grow a civilization. They craved new land. By the Indians did not expect anything to happen. They all thought that there was enough land for everyone to use. They thought that it would be easy to live together and share all their land. The Native American Indians wanted to help the newcomers by teaching them how to plant food and hunt and fish. Many of the animals were new to the strangers. But the Indians did not understand that the settlers were going to keep the land. This idea of ownership of the land was completely new to them and they didn’t know how to react. More ships came with more Europeans and they took over the land either peacefully or forcefully. They destroy everything that the Indians built and then they say stay off “their” land.
Unfortunately in the skirmish between the Native Americans and the European settlers turned more into a full out war.
The land that was once thought to be sacred by the Indians now became a burial ground that grew more and more every time the Europeans pushed into new territory. More and more Indians were shot down with their blood spilling all over the fertile soil that once grew crops for everyone to share. What’s ironic is that all the Europeans wanted was to have land that would grow everything that they ever needed and to get away from the horrid leadership of the war driven parliament in Britain. But instead of getting brand new fresh land, they befriended the natives, made sure that the land was good and there was plenty of meat to go around and lots of space, and then they completely betrayed the friends that they had made in the new world. They turned the beautiful and amazing ecosystem that they had wanted and could have very easily shared with the locals into a battleground that eventually expanded further and further. And with the American Indians practicing resistance fighting and them having no weapons to fight back against them with when they needed to, there was never a fighting chance. And as the battleground pushed further and further into America, behind it was laid down a breeding ground for industrial cities and bustling towns that completely destroyed what the Native Americans had worked so hard to achieve and
keep.