From an Indian perspective, the history of colonial North America was brought about from the importance of Indians to the new European settlers. Without Indians in the mix, the settlers would have never survived the new lands that they have come to. The importance of the Indians would help build this new colony into the nation that exists today. The contact between Europeans and Indians was first seen as a welcomed endeavor. Both sides prospered from the commerce being done. As the decades passed and the power of capitalism erupted in North America, the influx of more Europeans into North America was seen. More people meant that more land had to be used to house them. This meant that the Indians would be driven from their ancestral lands and cast out into the frontier. With this ever growing problem of losing land to European powers and the destruction of your culture through tribal wars, disease and resettlement, the eventual demise of the Indian people was on the horizon. From welcoming new strangers to your land to the final out come of fleeing for your life, the Indians in North America lost their history at the time the first European set foot in North America. The idea of Daniel K. Richter’s book, expresses the idea that the Indians are facing east and looking back at the country that was once theirs. And while remembering what their lands were once, they remember that the entire history of the Native Americans from that region of North America will never be how it once was. Eventually the Indians of North America will have no history at all. With westward expansion in the future, there is no place for them to go. It will be either to fight and die and have the entire population be massacred or to do what the people from the east has done in the past and that was to resettle in some other area. The history of Indians in North America was written by the conquerors of this land and they decided what the truth was and what fiction was.

Before contact with Europeans, the lands of North America were vast and fertile for the inhabiting people. The land was part of them religiously and physically. Their very own existence was tied to the land. The land gave them, food, shelter, and harmony. These inhabitants, known as Indians, would soon discover a stranger upon their lands, and this stranger brought with them odd gifts which have never been seen before. Most Indians acquired these strange items through trade and commerce among themselves and never really encountered the bringer of such items. With the passage of time and the influx of more Europeans into the region, Indians began to open a dialogue with them. The Indians wanted to know where they came from and what other new items they may have to trade. In the beginning this seemed to work for both parties. The Indians were receiving goods they have never encountered before; the new settlers were acquiring precious metals and other items they have never encountered before. The sight of these European ships was a sign to the Indians that the prospect of trade was upon them and the ability to obtain new items or items that they have already come accustomed to was now arriving in the European settlements. The Indians perspective on the situation was seen as a new experience that will help the Native Americans prosper.

When Indians first contacted Africans in North America, they viewed them as parts of them do to the creation theory where the Master of Life made all men. The different interpretation of contact with Africans than with Europeans was that the Africans were used as the European slaves. There were slaves in some Indian nations, but these slaves were taken by warring factions and then integrated into their new surroundings. Africans were viewed differently because Indians seen them as oppressed people. Even some Indians were sold into slavery right after they lost in battle against Europeans. “Most of the captives were sold to the British Ca

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