North American Native Indian
By: Ted Lake

The last ice age

Indians and Europeans

While the Indians were amazed by the Europeans, they also noticed that they were greedy, and viewed nature as a means to gain wealth and power. The North American Indian viewed nature, and by extension life, as sacred, and the Europeans views were abhorrent to them.

Not only did the white man bring outlandish tools, and a need to own land but also diseases that hit the Indian tribes hard, decimating their population. The Indians were outnumbered by the invaders, and had inferior weapons to defend themselves. While the Europeans had metal knives and swords, the North American Indian had bows and arrows and crude wooden spears. The arrows have remained today and this is where the sport of archery originated.

While the Indians lived here first, the Europeans viewed them as nothing more than nomads, with no claim to the land.

Even though the Indians had inferior weaponry, they fought fiercely and the Indian warrior was feared for his viciousness in combat. Many of them were excellent marksmen with the bow, and they knew the land intimately, making it hard for the Europeans to conquer them.

But no matter how many of the Europeans the Indians killed, more would replenish their number from across the sea.

A stain on North American history

That battle pretty much ended the wars that plagued North America, and left a stain on North American history that remains today. The remaining Indians were either assimilated, or repressed. The culture that the Indians had fought so hard for was almost lost.

A proud people