Between the years 1600 to 1700, English colonists were just settling the New World and establishing their own colonies, yet this colonization didn’t come without obstacles. Upon entering the seemingly unscathed land, colonists were greeted by Native Americans. At first, the two groups expressed a relationship characterized by amity and cooperation, yet as time went on, the “white superiority” of the colonists and the belief that they were primary owners of land soured the relationship. It was just a matter of time before the colonists would take over and run out the Native Americans. Primarily peaceful and affable, the relationship between the Indians and English steadily depreciated as the English overran the lands of the Indians while the
They thought the territory should be used by all of their people and land was not dissected, sold, or owned. They were closely connected with the land, what grew on the land, and the life on the land. Although the natives did not own the land, they enacted territorial rights to different parts of America between tribes (Voss). The Native Americans believed land was sacred and should be respected, land could not be sold, and they lived in harmony with the land. Animism is the acknowledgement of a soul to plants, inactive objects, and natural experience.
