Social Relationship Of Europeans And Native Americans From 1600 To 1800

The social relationship between Indian and Europeans during 1600 to 1800 in North America started out friendly with trading, then grew hostile on land disputes, and later most of Indians were wiped out by the Europeans. Indians tried to gain their freedom but were no match to the technological advancements of Europeans. They continued to be tied under a treaty and were pushed around as Europeans pleased. The social relationship was an integral part of relations between the Indian and Europeans. It was the main difference between the two groups of people and why they went against each other. There were other factors such as political, religious, and economic, but social relations were interconnected with all the other relations between the Indians and Europeans.

You can argue that in a fist fight, an Indian warrior has a greater chance of winning the fight because they have lived in a fight or flight situation their whole life. But an organized British army was hard to beat as they had guns, bayonets, rifles, and muskets. Even a planned-out attack by the Pueblo in New Mexico was short-lived as Spaniards got more man power and defeated them after 12 years. It felt like Indians were a generation behind on technological advancements. The pattern I kept seeing was the Indians gain small advantage by ambushing but later lose almost every war as the war progressed further. In the beginning, the Indians wanted to be friends with the British but were wrong about the British motives. They hoped to have a strong social relation like they did with the French. I felt that geography was a huge factor in the process of these events. The colonists would never have had conflict from the beginning if they didn’t find Indian tribes near their colony. Geographical factors helped the British colonies prosper and kept out the Spanish and French