what did the native American Indians and the European settlers not get along?

Answer 1

I have this one figured out. The settlers were rich creeps who came and got what they wanted. They did not care what they had to do to get more riches. Sound familiar? Now, the poor Native Americans were only concerned about their country, families, and necessities; not riches. The rich hurt the poor, as usual and got what they wanted. The Indians died trying to protect what was rightfully theirs. The rich are still the same today. I lost all material possessions, friends, family members, health and.................... because of the rich business man. I am not Native American, I am an American who got the same treatment today as the Indians did so long ago.

Answer 2

Because of ignorance, and the fear that ignorance breeds. The settlers were, for the most part, not rich people bent on domination, but poor folk looking for a better life for themselves. Ignorance of the culture and values of the Native people, as well as the ignorance that the Natives had for the cultures and values of the European settlers, bred a mutual distrust and fear.

Answer 3

One could write a book to answer this question. And the book "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond is a great book dealing with the issues of why societies developed and why they conflicted.

But to sum up the problem in one sentence: The settlers believed in ownership, the American Indians did not.

Answer 4

You should read some actual history. Your question is based on a false premise.

The French got along with their Algonquin and Huron trading partners and allies quite well. Similarly, the British got along with their trading partners and allies, the Iroquois Confederacy. These two groups fought each other for over 80 years (the Indian tribes had been fighting each other since pre-history) until the British and Iroquois finally prevailed in the French and Indian War in 1756-1762 and kicked France out of North America.

Answer 5

Cultures (aswell as dissimilar tribes) continually try to assimilate each other because they think that if a race is not like theirs then they are not normal. We also think higher of ourselves if we are advanced in any way. Europeans had large cities and technologies which Native Americans didn't, so they saw Native Americans as lesser beings that needed to be assimilated to the European way of thinking. They had the power to do that because there were more of them and they had advanced weaponry.

If the human race was accepting of other cultures the world would be a better place.

Answer 6

At first, relations between the Native Americans and Europeans were actually beneficial on both sides. However, like all positive things, this state of affairs didn't last very long.

A lot depended on the colonial policies of the colonizing country.
The Dutch and the French, for example, were at first primarily intersted in trade, particularly the Dutch. The Dutch weren't very interested in converting the Native Americans, but the French and British were.

The French missionaries were open to adapting Indian customs to Christian ones, and often tried (unsuccessfully, for the most part) to discourage such practices as the torture of captives and easy divorce.

The British missionaries had scant understanding of, and not much interest in, the customs and usages of the Native Americans; they tried very hard to make them like themselves and bitterly denounced their religious beliefs as idolatry or worse.

One of the main problems, though, boiled down at its simplest to a severe case of culture shock on both sides, particularly between the natives and the settlers in the areas colonized by the British.

In many Native American groups, farming was done (communally) by the women of the village. Many British saw this as laziness on the part of native men, who just hunted and fished and left the hard work to the women. The Indians perceived the agricultural society of the settlers as equally puzzling--why did these men do (singly, or with their sons or hired help) what was the work of women?

Interestingly, largely because of their connection with raising the crops, many Native American groups gave the women much higher status than that enjoyed by their European counterparts. It was the women, in many groups, who were the peacemakers when war broke out--and it was often done by women of both factions approaching one another to work out a settlement. In the Iroquois League, not only did all five (later six) nations have to be in agreement before going to war, but the older women had a kind of veto power over it--if the grandmothers of the League didn't agree to it, war could not be declared.

So, basically, it comes down to the old situation of one group feeling itself superior to another and determined to force their ways on them. A pity, really--so much could have been gained on both sides had the Europeans been more willing to learn from the indigenous peoples instead of trying to force them into their own mold.

Answer 7

WHEN THE SETTLERS CAME HERE AND SAW SUCH A BOUNTIFUL LAND...THAT HAD BEEN PRESERVED FOR SO LONG BY SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL PEOPLE, OF COURSE THEY HAD TO HAVE IT FOR THEMSELVES.

TRIBES THAT CAME IN CONTACT WITH EUROPEANS WELCOMED THE NEWCOMERS WITH OPEN ARMS...LITTLE DID THESE TRIBES KNOW THAT THESE PALE PEOPLE WERE PLANNING TO ROB, RAPE, TORTURE, SCALP, PILLAGE, AND DEPRECATE THEM.

NATIVES TAUGHT THE EUROPEANS HOW TO CULTIVATE THE LAND, HOW TO RESPECT MOTHER EARTH, FATHER SKY AND EVERYTHING THAT LIVED AMONG THEM...HOW TO ONLY HUNT WHEN HUNGRY, AND TO NEVER WASTE AN OUNCE OF THE ANIMAL THAT WAS HUNTED FOR FOOD.

THE EUROPEANS WERE GREEDY, THEY WANTED EVERYTHING FOR THEMSELVES...

THEY STUCK MY ANCESTORS ON HORRIBLY DEVELOPED LAND, IN PORTIONS SO SMALL THAT SOME WERE NOT ABLE TO BUILD OR MAKE A FULL LIFE WITH THE LAND(RESERVATIONS).

THE EUROPEANS ALSO KILLED OFF MANY NATIVES BY WAY OF MICROORGANISM WARFARE...THEY GAVE BLANKETS AND HANDKERCHIEFS INFECTED WITH DISEASES SUCH AS SMALLPOX, MEASLES, DIPHTHERIA ETC...IN AN ATTEMPT TO "TERMINATE THE INDIAN RACE".

THERE IS SO MUCH MORE...BUT TIME IS THIN FOR ME RIGHT NOW...

Answer 8

illness. It wasn't truthfully intentional, for the main area. that's purely that Europeans (having lived able that became a crossroads for thousand of years from visitors from Asia and Africa besides as close by Europeans) delivered with them especially communicable ailments for which close by American populations had no immunity.

Answer 9

because the settlers considered the Indians savages and treated them like animals, and wanted to change their beliefs

Answer 10

Fear.

People fear that which they do not know, the Europeans did not know the Natives. Fear will also bring out other things, such as hate and violence...