Encounters
...ted and attacked the Europeans. There were battles between the Indians and Europeans all over the place. Every colony had their own Indians to deal with. In the story by Anne Rowlenson, she depicts the Indians as barbarians. She was captured by Indians and taken in as a slave. She had children who were also captured. She and her child were injured when they were captured. Her child was six years old and neither of them were able to clean nor bandage their wounds. They had to walk for long distances until they could not walk anymore. Then they were able to ride on a horse for a short distance until they could walk again. I think that the Indians treated them pretty harshly. One of her children died during the process. The Indians made her sleep on the ground which was not unusual to them but she wasn’t used to it. They also did not feed her much. She was malnourished. This story depicts the way some Europeans saw the Indians, as ruthless no hearted beasts. This made the encounters between the Europeans and the Indians very dangerous. This meant that the Europeans had a new enemy to fight against. They saw the Indians as a threat and would treat them as one. All over the colonies when people saw Indians they were scared for their life. The colonists did not want to have to fear for lives in their own land. So whenever they saw Indians or came across them they would start a battle with them and try to kill all of them. Whenever the Indians came across the colonist, they would fight with them because they knew that the colonists did not like them and they were a threat to them. The colonists wanted to expand westward so when they did, they destroyed the Indian’s villages in the process. Every time they came across a village there would be fighting because the Indians did not want to lose their land to the colonist and the colonists wanted more land to live on. The colonists did not care about what they were doing to the Indians. They did not care that they were taking the land they had lived on a long time before they had arrived there. All they care about was themselves and the growth of their colonies. There was an Indian chief that responded to all of this and his name was Chief Seattle. He wrote about all the things that had happened between the colonies and the Indians. His text is in response to the English wanting to buy the Indian’s land and let them settle on the reservations that they had set aside for them to be able to live comfortably on. He describes the way the Indians lived before the white man came. He also talked about how all the young people of his tribe got angry easily at how they were being treated by the Europeans. He said that is why there were so many battles between the two sides. I think that he said a lot of great things in his speech. He made a lot of sense. Another topic he spoke about was one about religion. He had learned Christianity from a missionary, but he still b...