Americans the interests of the English soon changed.Native Americans were soon portrayed as savage animals because of the lack of understanding of the Settlers. The culture of the Native Americans was so different from the culture of the English that the English would soon look at the natives as inferior. The Native Americans were deemed hostile, bestial, cursed by God, primitive beings with inferior knowledge and language. Also the English commonly thought of them as crafty, brutal, loathsome, cannibalistic and promiscuous. These negative images of the Native Americans grew from stories passed from settler to settler which were commonly misinterpretations with very little truth. The English have developed a long history of moving in to land foreign to theres and exploiting the local people for their prosperity. The dealings between English and the Native Americans would prove to be no different from Englands previous dealings foreign lands.In no time the English were in a position in which they would do whatever it took to claim as much land as they could, even if it meant fighting with hostile Indians. Some Englishmen thought it was wrong to claim land which was already being used, no matter what the culture of the Native Americans was. However the majorities view was that they were performing a favor to the Indians by introducing God and Christianity into their lives. The people with this view also saw the Native Americans current beliefs as blasphemous and sacreligous. Some of the English even viewed the Native Americans as animals with absolutely no rights at all. Sir George Peckham wrote saying that the English should protect themselves forcefully and violently. He spoke of turning the beasts into Christians, which is yet another clue of large amounts of conflict to come.It was soon to come that an Englishman could kill an Indian freely, as if they were wild animals standing in the way of a new England. The English ...
