"Arrivals... There goes the neigborhood."

   Prior to the Europeans arrival to America, the U.S. was inhabited by indigenous tribes known as Native Americans, or "Indians". The Indian tribes expanded from coast to coast and introduction to horses allowed them to move rapidly and made them nomadic. But what could of been a peaceful existence between the Indians and Europeans quickly transformed into a violent conflict. European settlers began to inhabit the Atlantic Coast so Indian tribes moved westward but the Europeans followed them west. Many might say that the Indians weren't welcoming or didn't allow for coexistence but let's view it from the Indians point of view...
     You are a Indian living in America and Europeans begin to settle on what is your land. You don't mind coexisting with these other people but then they start to force you off of your land and claim it as their own causing war. They tell you that you can remain on the land but only on what wasn't marked as U.S. territory. Now let's view it from the Europeans point of view...
     You are an European settler that finds America as a great place to settle. Though Indians are inhabited there, you find the land useful for agriculture and settlement.  Instead of peacefully coexisting with these Indians, you rather force them off their land and claim it as your own.
     Besides these two groups of people looking different, they lived different as well. The Indians were nomadic and polytheistic but the Europeans saw them as barbaric and thought they should convert to Christianity as they were. Agriculture was also an important aspect of the Indians' lives but Europeans only saw these resources as a way to get money. These European explorers believed they were sent to America by God but did God send them to America to victimize people?