Native Americans The Puritan relationship with the early Americans was tenuous at best and downright vicious at worst. ... Thus in a typical fashion conversion or destruction was the basis of Puritan foreign policy with the Natives. The Native Americans, for their part, were equally mystified by the European colonists. ... Upon being captured by Native Americans she slew "10" of them and returned with their scalps. ... By educate of course I mean covert to Christianity which is an ongoing theme in Native American relations. ...

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Yet the experience of African slaves and the Native American Indians starkly contrasts with that of the European immigrant groups, and describes a second, darker facet to American culture that still exists today. ...

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