Compare And Contrast Algonquian And English Settlers

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The English settlers not only found a Virginia land but they made a colonized region with more than 100,000 Indians, who had confronted with the new people in many ways. The land hungry whites rushed to remove and execute the Indians. The English planned to put up with the Indians differently from the French and the Dutch. The merchants that came from France, as well as the Netherlands were not looking for gold and sugar. They were focused on the profitable fur trade. They also had a business with animal skins including: beavers, otters and deer. The English colonists were just focused on the “God-given” right to fish and farm. They established that the Indians have lived separate in their own villages and in their own towns. The Indians had a goal and that was to subordination rather than collaboration. The Abenakis were hunters and gatherers in Maine, that depended on the offerings of the land and the water. The women had to restore the dead animals the men bring back and prepare it so they can eat. They were also in charge of setting up the camp and breaking it back down, raising the children and gathering the fruits and berries. The men done all the hunting. The Algonquian tribes were a highly agriculture system that was in the middle on three primary crops: beans, corn and …show more content…
They made a fire to a village of the Pequot, for their revenge. The Puritans killed the Indians as they were evacuating their burning huts. There were men, women and children inside trying to flee the burning houses. The Pequot War in 1637, their allies and colonists have killed more than a few hundred of Pequot’s that were in their homes near the West Mystic, that is in the Connecticut River Valley. Cotton Mather, the Puritan Minister had described their slaughter as “gave the praise thereof to God” and “sweet sacrifice.” There were terms from the Treaty of Hartford that the Pequot Nation was