Indigenous Changed

How the Lives of the Indigenous Changed “Don’t expect anyone to understand your journey, especially if they’ve never walked your path.” During the 1600’s Colonist completed a voyage to the new world in which it took them 66 days. Within the time, the Colonist managed to interact with the Natives the Colonist showed the Natives many new ways of living, including the many different types of tools that were brought along. Although the Colonists did not only introduced new tools and a different living style but also many different diseases. Due to the diseases being new to the Native Americans the diseases were able to quickly wipe out majority of the Native tribes. The Colonist also brought along the idea of enslavement, the Natives were the
“King Philip’s War in the mid 1670s─which was fought to protest the English Colonists encroaching influence and forced labor of Native Americans─ended with “as many as 40 percent of the Indians in southern New England living in English households as indentured servants or slaves,” Lee writes” (CADEIP, paragraph 6). By the Natives becoming slaves, it would harm their culture due to the Native Americans being forced to adapt to a completely different culture thus causing the Natives to lose their own ways in the process as a result of the Colonists deeming the Natives culture inhumane. The document states, “Enslaving Native Americans became one of the primary ways to expand the economy for Colonists in South Carolina and to a lesser extent in North Carolina, Virginia and Louisiana” (CADEIP, paragraph 7). At this point Native slaves have become a primary source of income for the Colonists, Natives are being separated from family and friends all for the benefit of the Colonists and none in return for Native Americans. Natives have perhaps begun to lose their native tongue and customs in which were passed down from their family for generations. This puts the Natives customs and culture in danger due to them now “living” with the Colonists as the Colonists continue force a “proper”
Overall the Colonists seem to have more experience at the time compared to the Native Americans seeing as how they thought it was connected to something spiritual. The Native Americans had rituals for when someone became sick, the Natives were able to pray to their gods and they swarmed the ill in a form of comfort and reassurance. The documentary claims, “When a friend is sick, everyone congregates at the friends bedside.” As for the Colonists, they had medicine in which the Natives did not. In a way the Colonists shattered the Native Americans image of illness being connected to something spiritual and in the end taking away that belief. Although during the documentary Winslow, a close friend to the chief of the Wampanoag known as Massasoit, gives him medicine in hopes of being able to cure him while also praying to his god after in order to ask to watch over