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\nOnce upon a time, the European colonists who came over to settle along the eastern coast of North America and the Natives who had already lived there for thousands of years, kind of got along. Sure, there were disputes and skirmishes...\nOnce upon a time, the European colonists who came over to settle along the eastern coast of North America and the Natives who had already lived there for thousands of years, kind of got along. Sure, there were disputes and skirmishes here and there, but generally the two sides coexisted. Sure, it helped that millions of Indians had already died in the previous century from disease, which cleared a lot of land and other resources. Trade generally was pretty darn awesome in the early days of European and Indian relations. However, with more and more Europeans coming, Indians had a hard time keeping up with trade. This caused men to hunt more, which hurt the gender balance which had previously existed in the tribe. Also, as more and more Europeans came, they had this habit of claiming land. Europeans and Indian nations usually signed treaties with each other regarding land, but the Indian idea of land was generally very different from the European idea of land. Many Indians practiced communal land ownership, meaning the entire community owned and shared the land. Europeans generally bought and sold land exclusively and individually. This different understanding of land ownership led to confusion and later conflict. 15 years after the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, was established, it was attacked by Powhatan Indians who had had enough. They took out 347 colonists, almost destroying the entire settlement. The surviving colonists retaliated. Thus, things went back and forth for quite awhile. During the 1630s, in the Pequot War, the Pequot Tribe fought Puritans trying to start a colony in Connecticut. The Puritans had formed alliances with rivals tribes, the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes, and defeated the Pequot. European and Indian alliances became quite common. Remember- there were hundreds of different Indian nations across North America at the time- it'd be silly to assume they all got along. Remember the Pilgrims? Remember how the Wampanoag chief Massasoit peacefully coexisted with the Pilgrims, and they even shared a nice feast? Okay, watch my Pilgrims video if you forgot, dadgummit. Anyway, Massasoit had a son named Metacomet, who the Puritans called King Philip. When more and more Europeans encroached, or intruded on their territory, and disrespected their rights, Metacomet lost faith in peaceful relations. In 1675, in what became known as King Philip's War, Metacomet united Indian tribes to attack the Puritans of Plymouth Colony. Historians consider the war the deadliest in the history of European settlement in North America in proportion to the population. In a little over one year, 12 of New England's towns were completely wiped out, the region's economy was destroyed, and 1/10th of all military-aged men were killed. While it devastated the Puritans, it nearly ended the existence of the Wampanoag nation and their allies. Metacomet himself was killed in the war. The Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee, who lived in modern day upstate New York, were fairly successful in resisting European advances. Throughout the 1500s and 1600s, they had formed a powerful nation by uniting several tribes. By the mid 1700s, they were known to the English as the \"Six Nations\", made up of the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora nations. They practiced strong diplomacy, or negotiating skills, with both the French and English, and stayed powerful until the Revolutionary War, which ultimately broke them apart. From 1754 to 1763, the British colonies and French colonies fought in what became known as the French and Indian War, which was really the North American theater of a larger war known as the Seven Years' War. While the British had made it clear they intended to settle the frontier, the French seemed more interested in trade, not settlement. Because of this, many tribes, like the Delaware and Shawnee, sided with the French. Although the Six Nations officially were neutral, many within the Iroquois Confederacy also helped out both the French and the British. After the British won the war, the French lost nearly all of its colonial territory, and soon Indians only had one enemy they could unite against- the British, of course.\n
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