Mary Rowlandson - conflict between natives and europeans

Why there are several wars between native Indians and Europeans? One of the most important reasons is misunderstanding. Just like an old saying, revenge creates nothing but new revenge. Things always happen like this; some actions of Europeans may hurt the pride of Indian Lords. Then, things happened. Wars begin between two kinds of people in American.

It seems Indians did not hate those people who voyage the Atlantic to land on America. Instead, they thought Europeans more like the gods who promised will return after several thousand years later. Those Indians offer Europeans food supply, gold and high honor. However, these staffs only happened at very first explorers land on American. Those Europeans focus on discover more in the land. Most time they can stay very good with native people and learn how their living is. They also share knowledge with Native Americans. They bring advanced technology to the Indian tribe. After these People went back to Europe, all things changed.

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Late on, with Europeans begin to familiar with the new land. Those lords in Europe send a great force to America. They robed some Indians tribe first. It brings those soldiers honor and money to back their home town. Then, those lords had more ambition. They want to make their kingdom bigger, more land, and more population. There are two different way to do this. First one is make a promise with Indian lords. It always happened like this: Europeans supply money, item, and specialist to help tribe improve. Instead, the tribe should announce as a part of a European country like Spain or Britain. This is a peace way, but not everyone wants that. Most Indians have their own pride. Then the war begins. Europeans send army to destroy Indians city, capture their people. Indians then do this as payback too. With the time going by, it is not a problem anymore. It is an attitude now.

(http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/stories/0503_0107.html)

With most advanced weapons, Europeans finally set most Native Americans to their new hometown which is far away in western land. Even some people keep doing effort to create a balance to make the two kinds stay in peace and have a new life. It finally becomes true after the independence of United State. Without controlling by European country, the first time that two kind do not have a reason to conflict.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States)

(http://espressostalinist.wordpress.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/)

Thomas Paine

As we know that religion plays an important role in American history. Like most European countries, in American’s early time, Church seems much more important than government. In other words, religion deals more effect than government. Here I want to discuss that how Religion changes in American. Some things are about Thomas Paine and why his mind can be so popular in United State.

The religion in American affected a lot by Native and European culture. When the European religion strongly rushed the Native religion, some Native religion idea also affected the church, some people who work for church even seek for ideas from tribe to understand bible in another way. Since these new ideas come into the church, some people who had high education begin to doubt some part of origin religion. There are a lot of new kinds of religion came out. Some of them focus on the nature, and some of them focus on human relationship. Many new different ideas lead to the religion of United State now. Pretty beautiful and opened mind

(http://are.as.wvu.edu/ruvolo.htm).

Now, let us focus on Paine, Paine is a British man. After he arrived American, his mind changed a lot. He began to think about the human themselves. He only believe that god create the world and make rules for everything (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine).  However, we still have the power to control ourselves. He said the only one we should faith is our self. In our daily life, we can do much more than we have imaged. He did not trust the church. He did not think that we need any church or priest. He said, they are conjurors, and the god is never affecting our life or history. He also suggests us to live in a logos way. It is very important to avoid controlling by our own emotion

(http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_TPaine.htm).

As he stand in the American side to think about the war. Paine is not the only one who is a British but stands at American side, and encourages the independence. Another one is George Washington who become first president later. It can be described by the religion. When people begin to trust themselves instead to trust the god, people live in new land begin to seek for more freedom. Every freedom begin with the freedom of people’s mind

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_religion_in_the_United_States).