How was the relationship between Europeans and Native Americans different in the North American colonies from the interactions that existed in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in South America? What accounts for the difference?

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Answer 1

A. Native American relationship with Europeans in South America
1. Native Americans were often surprisingly hospitable to European intruders
2. European communities relied on native collaboration for food or allies
3. Sexual alliances with native women of elite rank helped the newcomers
to get established
a. conferred on host communities a duty to help with labor and food
4. stranger-effect—the tendency some peoples have to esteem and defer to
strangers, whose usefulness as arbitrators of disputes, dispensers of
justice, and preservers of peace, arises from the objectivity that their
foreign origins confer
5. Spanish policy—rarely successful in practice—was always to preserve
the native population
B. Native American relationship with Europeans in North America
1. Native Americans seemed at best a nuisance, unless they were needed
to keep trade going
2. in British America native peoples got in the way and genocide seemed
the best means to deal with them
3. Native Americans as slaves
a. early economy of the Carolinas depended on the slave trade with
Native Americans, who raided neighbors as far inland as the
Mississippi River valley
b. more Native American slaves than black slaves until well into
the eighteenth century
4. English colonies relied on imported labor, whether enslaved or not, and
so could afford to massacre their Native Americans or drive them west
a. ready-made ideology of extermination
b. did not feel the agonies of conscience about the justice of their
presence in America or the morality of their wars
5. colony where this reasoning was modified was early Pennsylvania
a. moral and material considerations combined to favor a policy of
friendly collaboration with the Native Americans