Arrivals...There goes the neighborhood

When colonists arrived and, in my opinion, invaded America in 1492, they were not the only ones here. These "neighborhoods" belonged to the Native Americans. Little did the natives know, these new arrivals in their neighborhoods would be trying to convert their beliefs and essentially removing them from their own land.

As the newcomers were moving into the Native American's land, they observed and made assumptions about the natives. They said that the natives were primitive, uncivilized, and that it would be easy to convert the natives' beliefs to what the colonists believed.

The new neighbors looked at themselves as if they were at a much higher rank or position than the Native Americans were at. However, I do not think some of the colonists would have been able to survive without the help from Native Americans. To elaborate, the Americas were new land being introduced to these Europeans. They may or may not have known what kinds of food were safe to eat, how to catch wild animals, or how to prepare their food. I think it is safe to assume that the Americas were definitely not the same as how the colonists' homelands were at that time, therefore they may have needed help to survive. It is possible that they also did not know how to speak the language of the Native Americans or how to travel throughout the lands of America. However there were some Native Americans that served as translators and guides for the newcomers, who, I assume, served as great help.

Whether the change of the neighborhood was for better or for worse, it affected the way we live today.