Relationship Between Indians And Englishmen

Greene opens up the video stating that the relationship between the Indians and the Englishmen was one of the worst relationships in the U.S history. In the beginning, the relationship with the Indians went so well that colonial leader John Smith ordered his men to stop stealing from the Indians. Greene articulates that both parties were willing to trade items they had in surplus with ones they did not. The Indians traded woven cloths and foods with guns and iron utensils provided by the Europeans. The first problem occurred when the Indian men started to rely more heavily on hunting and spending less time on agriculture which upset gender balances. Soon Indians began fighting with one another over hunting grounds. When John Smith left Virginia