se. Whether this was intentional or not, that part is not clear, although I lean towards intentional even from the start.Native Americans grew maze and other vegetables on cleared plots of land for years at a time. They would move after the soil was depleted of minerals, but they wouldn’t clear very large plots of land because they never grew more than they would use. Then the Europeans came and demanded the Natives feed them along with trade with them. This caused the Natives to become dependent on European goods and thus giving the Europeans control over them. At this point in history, the Native Americans way of life started to decline.European policy regarding the Natives was one of exploitation and greed. The Europeans saw the natives as a commodity not as human beings, as barbarians not as the civil advanced people they were. They saw them as a way to make some money and advance there own goals.The Europeans were coming over in larger amounts and they needed to spread out over the great expanse of the wilderness (populated Native American land). The Europeans adopted policy that would allow them to take over by any means necessary by deceiving, murdering, disease, and war. The Europeans justification to the stealing of land was also that the Natives were nothing more than animals, who were not using all the land to the extent that it could be used. I believe these justifications to be erroneous as well as ignorant. As to the Natives being non-intelligent, barbarous people, they had complex societies that were self sufficient with strong and complex governments. They also had belief in religion, many with a god residing power over all. To the natives not using the land to the fullest, I think it should read not ruining the land to the fullest. Native Americans used the land for what they needed to exist, not to turn a profit and destroy nature (the wilderness).Native Americans thought of gifts as symbolic gesture...
