what do we think?

In what way would the lives of Native Americans be different today if there had not been any treaties?

we think, thinking positive, that maybe the Native Americans and the pilgrims could have lived peacefully together, sharing their cultures etc. but that would not be realistic. The pilgrims disliked the Indians because they seemed alien to them with strange habbits and lived on the lands they thought they deserved. that's why the pilgrims wanted to civilise them and teach them their habbits, languages and get them to be catholics as well, their goal was to get the Indian out of them.
with the treaties the Indians had to move to the west, past the Mississippi river to get to their own indian lands. We think that if the treaties would not have been there, that the pilgrims would have still killed the Indians in a way maybe more horrible than this one.

kind regards,
Esther and Carlijn