The Jesuit Relations and Duiker/Spielvogel book gives us more of a religious aspect of the interaction between the two peoples. The Spanish, British, and French established domains in the New World, but all three groups professed at least one common interest: the desire to draw native people into the Christian faith. The Jesuit Relations describes the New World as seen through the eyes of an on the spot eyewitness. They touched on a number of aspects of life in the New World. These records contain a vast amount of information about the Indians, the original inhabitants of the land: their physical traits, beliefs and customs g

Reilly’s Worlds of History paints a more chaotic picture of Indian and European interaction. The Native Americans were very helpful to the Europeans and they guided them around what is now America. The Europeans used the Indian’s labor to work in mines and plantations. They were treated like slaves. I think it is appalling that the Europeans took control over a land (not to mention the people) that wasn’t theirs; a land that they didn’t even know existed. The enslavement of the Indians relates back to the Jesuit Relations’ description of the Old World diseases. The enslavement did not continue because these new diseases killed a lot of the Indians, and the ones who survived were smart enough to escape. This, in turn, led to the Europeans going to Africa to search out more slaves. The Europeans shipped Africans from their homeland to America. They thought it was better to have Africans under control of the New World colonists that for them to be under the control of no one.

The Spaniards were very disrespectful towards the natives and their belongings. They took all of their gold and seized every object they thought beautiful. Anything else, they just piled into a mound and burned. The Spaniards were ‘slaves to their own greed.’ The Mexicans were too scared to come forward and say anything, but still yet they “did not abandon the Spaniards to hunger and thirst, they brought them whatever they needed.” (Reilly, p.65-66)

Even though the Europeans treated the Indians poorly, the Indians were still eager to please the Europeans. In an exert from Bernal Diaz, he states “Montezuma had ordered his stewards to provide us with everything we needed for our way of living.” (Worlds of History, Src 6 p.55) This event led to the natives getting angry with their king and they no longer respected him.

The French gradually came to terms with the native cultures. They began to interact extensively with the Indians. The French became very wealthy by trading furs with the native hunters. This demand of fur trading transformed the

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