Native American Imperialism Essay

The European colonization of the americas was undignified. The selfish manners in which the Europeans conquer and vanished most of all the Native Americans is unacceptable. Before the arrival of the Europeans the natives indians already had the concept of religion, writing, and civilization, all which was destroy by the Europeans. The natives did not needed any type of influential from the Europeans, in fact when they came in contact, the natives even offer them help and shelter such as with the Indian Confederacy led by chief Powhatan. The European exploration to the new world only brought chaos and destruction to the Natives Americans. As the European settlers began to settle within in Indian territory in Jamestown, the Chief leader Powhatan did not attack nor came close contact with the outsiders. It was only a matter of time were the colonist would ran out of food, specially when winter came. Many starve to death, other went crazy, buy the indians felt from them and they fed them. The Natives Indians felt that by this peace would between them, they thought wrong. The ambiguity the colonist had only forced the natives to give up their land and let the colonist take over. Of course the natives resisted, as a result, the

As the Puritans began to come to to the colonies in New England, their desired was to vanish the Native Americans if they did not converted into christianity. The great barriers of religion, ethics and world views are the three largest factors which lead to the culture clash between the Puritans and the Native Americans. With this in mind, both had extremely different religious views, only causing more trouble. The Puritans began to take over Indian territory, committing genocides until the land was theirs. Howard Zinn explains in his book A People’s History of the United States that the excuse the puritans made was, ‘“ legally a