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Genocide of Native Americans

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       Native Americans and the European explores and setters who were arriving in America differed in a numbers of ways. Two major differences that the Europeans and Native Americans had , were different viewpoints, which were on philosophies concerning land and property. The major differences between the two opposing cultures and their ideologies had inevitably led to th
  e conflict between the two.
       Long before America was discovered by the Europeans, thousands of Native American tribes had already been living in the "New World" and enjoying their peaceful environment. When Christoper Columbus and the first European settlers arrived ,they had made friends with the Native Americans, even though they were suspicious of who these people really were, and how they go there before them. As more and more European explores and settlers began immigrating to America, the Native Americans, who were living on these lands, way before anybody else, began to grow very impatient with the fact that more and more of their land was being taken over be the immigrants. They were irritated with the fact that the Europeans wanted to use it for their own selfish reasons, as opposed to living on it, enjoying it, and not taking advantage of it.
       The cultural philosophies of the Native Americans and the Europeans could not be more contrasting. The Native Americans believed that status in a society should be earned through age, wisdom, and hunting abilities. They believed that land, life and honored objects were to be considered sacred...