... that they might as well have been from far ends of the universe. Native Americans, as they came to be known, were a people very much integrated with the land they lived on and saw themselves as a part of it. The European settlers that came decades after Columbus ... were quite different. Though they were not conquerors, they were bred in societies that instilled the beginnings of ... Their ceremonies were connected with, as Ruth Underhill notes, "the very fabric of life. They furnished the chief opportunities for learning, for feasting, for lovemaking " (5). Their cosmology did not dicta...

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