Ever since the first Europeans inhabited America there has been a fascination with its land. Its beautiful scenery and its rich soil made, for the settlers, an attractive place to settle . Shortly after the colonies formed, the people started to accept farming as a way of life. Gradually the colonists became self-sufficient and eventually broke all political ties with their mother country, England. In the distance the native Americans (dubbed Indians by the settlers) watched …showed first 75 words of 1090 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1090 total…achieve. The Indians assumed that they could trust the whites - they were wrong. They thought they could stop prospectors from invading their territories - they were wrong. The white society would not stop as long as there was land to be had and money to be made. “They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.” (Brown 449)