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Native American Contact And Conflict Summary
In “Native American: Contact and Conflict” the author analyzes the previous excerpts in a conclusion about Native American encounters with English settlers/colonists. Native Americans repeatedly showed a bit much of resistance and concession throughout the 1600s with the colonists. The English colonists were not always excepted by the Native Americans. Native Americans felt as if the colonists invaded their Native lands that they culturally developed over the years. “The English did not understand this, however, and soon their relentless demand for Indian land and Indian submission to English law led to Indian resistance” (221). English colonists came to these Native lands in hope of conquering a new land to develop their people and culture.
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