When the Europeans came to the Americas, the colonists altered the Native Americans" lives along with destroying the environment and the animal life. The lives of the Indians and their relationships with the environment changed drastically between 1500 and 1800. Prior to the Europeans came to North America, the Indians were able to farm their communal land together, hunt for survival, not enjoyment, live the their way of life, and be in balance with their environment. Once the Europeans came, not only did they not understand and despise the Indians" way of life and how they needed to live, but they also detested the Native Americans themselves. The Indians had convictions that were brutishly taken away from them by the new settlers who destroyed the beautiful American land. In A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800, Timothy Silver contends that the innovations brought by the colonists changed the nature and scale of those alterations and created a new face on the countryside. Silver argues that although the Indians may have tore down a few trees, lit some forest fires, and hunted game in order to stay alive in their day, nothing compares to what the European colonists have done to the land that they greedily took away from the natives. The environment and the Indians had a type of innocence that became lost when the Europeans arrived. Silver agrees with this argument: he believes that the natives were survivalists until the Europeans ambushed their world, they lost their innocence by taking enjoyment in the Europeans" pleasures. To this day, it has been known that the Europeans exploited the land and were only interested in making money and exploiting the Native Americans.
Native Americans have always had a close connection with their environment. They had to adapt their economics to their societies. Their religious beliefs kept them in balance and in harmony with the environment.
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