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Native American Relationship
In everyday life, certain things tend to affect our relationship with others. More or less, the cause is the lack of understanding from both sides. Starting from Columbus’ arrival in 1492 on the Bahamas, the affiliation between the Native Americans and the Europeans was bound to have some adversity. At first, the natives were welcoming to the new arrivals, accepting the differences between them, but the Europeans treated them with disdain, since the natives were primitive in their ways. The two groups had different approaches and ideas of glory, wealth, and religion that led to a strained relationship for years to come, but if both contributed effort to make it work, it would have been less tenuous.
When two types of people meet, notions tend to clash for they come from different backgrounds. Glory is one of
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One way to achieve this was staking claim on an unexplored landmass that already had numerous, stabilized civilizations for thousands of years. Europeans started sending in armies to conquer the land, and if opposition was present, death or servitude would be one of the options to take, much to the inhabitants tribulation. The natives didn’t comprehend the …show more content…
The Europeans were after glory, wealth, and the conversion of the indigenous. However, these concepts were contrasting to those of the natives. Europeans approached the natives unwilling to compromise their objective, therefore the life of the Native Americans became restricted to a few options. The latter was always settling, while the former was calling all the shots. There’s a way to salvage the relationship one has with others, however, it requires some conceding from both

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