John Morgan - Thanksgiving Guilt Trip: How Warlike Were Native Americans Earlier Europeans Showed Up?

On the whole the native Americans were a peaceful people. Steve Pinker got it incorrect when he said that pre states societies were to a greater extent than far to a greater extent than vehement than our own.

This is a wretched quote, in addition to I'm certain you've all read it before.

In 2 momentous early on encounters, Native Americans greeted Europeans amongst kindness in addition to generosity. Here is how Christopher Columbus described the Arawak, tribal people living inward the Commonwealth of the Bahamas when he landed at that topographic point inward 1492: "They...brought us parrots in addition to balls of cotton fiber in addition to spears in addition to many other things, which they exchanged for the drinking glass beads in addition to hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned.... They create non behave arms, in addition to create non know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it past times the border in addition to cutting themselves out of ignorance…. With fifty men nosotros could subjugate them all in addition to brand them create whatever nosotros want."

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A similar designing unfolded inward New England inward the early on 17th century. After the Pilgrims arrived inward Plymouth inward 1620 on the Mayflower, they nearly starved to death. Members of a local tribe, the Wampanoag, helped the newcomers, showing them how to constitute corn in addition to other local foods. In the autumn of 1621 the Pilgrims celebrated their outset successful harvest amongst a three-day feast amongst the Wampanoag. The effect my classmates in addition to I reenacted inward flat schoolhouse actually happened!

But shortly subsequently the white settlers wiped out the Wampanoag. 

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John Morgan - Thanksgiving guilt trip: How warlike were Native Americans earlier Europeans showed up?