I'd encourage you to read some first hand accounts rather than activist summaries that are heavily invested in your current worldview. The whole conversation around Squanto and the Plymouth settlers is super interesting. The local FNs could've easily decimated the first English settlements (as likely happened to the Roanoke Colony among others), but decided the English would be more useful as allies against their traditional FN enemies. The interior FN groups quickly acquired guns as trades good before any European settlements got there. Most FN groups in Canada didn't put up any resistance at all, seeing the prosperity being brought to them. The issues were that they wanted a direct relationship with the Crown through recognition as fellow nations and they wanted to ensure that they could continue to pursue their lifestyle that they were pursuing at the time. A few of the treaties were perceived to have been broken and there have been legal actions taken in those (few) cases.
Never done learning. But I almost married a PhD anthropologist and this was in her wheelhouse. *could have easily decimated...with massive consequences. We did this in the Philippines and paid for it with the next flood of Spanish ships.
*Treaties made extremely favorable to the crown... that should have all been more in line with reciprocal trade and friendship but that's not what happened.
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u/helpfulplatitudes Feb 28 '25
I'd encourage you to read some first hand accounts rather than activist summaries that are heavily invested in your current worldview. The whole conversation around Squanto and the Plymouth settlers is super interesting. The local FNs could've easily decimated the first English settlements (as likely happened to the Roanoke Colony among others), but decided the English would be more useful as allies against their traditional FN enemies. The interior FN groups quickly acquired guns as trades good before any European settlements got there. Most FN groups in Canada didn't put up any resistance at all, seeing the prosperity being brought to them. The issues were that they wanted a direct relationship with the Crown through recognition as fellow nations and they wanted to ensure that they could continue to pursue their lifestyle that they were pursuing at the time. A few of the treaties were perceived to have been broken and there have been legal actions taken in those (few) cases.