Pocahontas And The Powhatan Dilemma Summary
The English colonists were responsible for the demolition of the Indian culture. In the book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, we learn about what it is like to be living in the 1600’s but also about the different aspects of Pocahontas’ life growing up. Through out this reading it was clear to see that the Native Americans were not treated fairly in comparison to the English or any other people of a different descent. There are many times that Native American lives were taken for no true cause or because of the unwillingness to change their way of life only to please others. Being a Native American in the 1600’s was not always an easy thing to be and Camilla Townsend got that message across through out her book.
Numerous Indians were …show more content…
The English did not take the news of that so well, John Smith especially was not one that it sat too well with. If the Indians refused to give corn in trade for Smith’s trinkets, he threatened to take the corn anyways and say it was his revenge.
“The English could gain more by following the example of the Spaniard’s treatment of the Indians.” (Page 43) The book was written by William Strachey in 1610 who had just returned back after spending a whole year in Jamestown. Many books were written with words like these, giving the conception that the way the Indians were treated was acceptable. Only to land in the hands of the wrong people and give certain people a desire and drive to follow what the words that these books contained. I think books like these were what fueled people to want to mistreat the Indians the way that they once did.
A lot of these books that were written also seemed to be degrading to women in a way. “Books and broadsides alike conveyed the idea that in taking an Indian woman, one took a continent, metaphorically speaking.” (page 27) A lot of men were stuck on ships for months on end so finally seeing a woman was somewhat of a relief to them. They saw these women as an object and fantasized as taking them away and making them into
Numerous Indians were …show more content…
The English did not take the news of that so well, John Smith especially was not one that it sat too well with. If the Indians refused to give corn in trade for Smith’s trinkets, he threatened to take the corn anyways and say it was his revenge.
“The English could gain more by following the example of the Spaniard’s treatment of the Indians.” (Page 43) The book was written by William Strachey in 1610 who had just returned back after spending a whole year in Jamestown. Many books were written with words like these, giving the conception that the way the Indians were treated was acceptable. Only to land in the hands of the wrong people and give certain people a desire and drive to follow what the words that these books contained. I think books like these were what fueled people to want to mistreat the Indians the way that they once did.
A lot of these books that were written also seemed to be degrading to women in a way. “Books and broadsides alike conveyed the idea that in taking an Indian woman, one took a continent, metaphorically speaking.” (page 27) A lot of men were stuck on ships for months on end so finally seeing a woman was somewhat of a relief to them. They saw these women as an object and fantasized as taking them away and making them into