"America The brave, still fear what we don't know."(Macklemore, 'Same Love"). The thought of encountering something new, some one different in itself frightens people. In times of war we call them invading forces, in times of peace, help. When the explorers came to America, instead of aiding or cooperating with natives they felt that they had a right to ownership. Excuse me, I meant WRONGLY believed they had a right to the "new world". Then again humans have nearly never been so idealistically open-minded. History books refer to this as colonizing, whereas Native Americans call it an invasion, enslavement, and theft. Their neighborhood, no entire communities were gone. Not only did they lose their neighborhood, but also their land, culture, and freedom.
To me, the explorers were entirely responsible for the clash that they had with the natives. A good analogy would be going across town to someone's house; being pleasant to gain entry, then declaring it was my home for I was superior. In evolution, no one organism is ever superior to another, they are all equal evolved into different forms of life. We are all human beings, equally evolved, yet some still believe one man can be superior to another. There is no superior, there is only level of knowledge. All people receive different levels and experiences of education, so even then there is no reason to call anyone's experiences or education superior to one another. We are ALL human beings, equal, yet one man claims land over another for superiority consistently.
To me, Native Americans were robbed by the colonists, and tried to make peace, but nothing could prevent the clash of cultures during the birth of America.
