Indians
It was also a commodity: A forest was so many board feet of timber, a beaver
colony so many pelts, a herd of buffalo so many robes and tongues. Even the Indians
themselves were a resource - souls ripe for the Jesuit, Dominican, or Puritan plucking.
It was the Europeans' cultural arrogance, coupled with their materialistic view of the land
and its animal and plant beings, that the Indians found repellent. Europeans, in sum, were
regarded as something mechanical - soulless creatures who wielded diabolically
ingenious tools and weapons to accomplish mad ends.
The Europeans brought with them not only a desire and will to conquer the new continent
for all its material richness, but they also brought with them diseases that hit the Indians
hard. Conflicts developed between the Native Americans and the Invaders, the latter
arriving in overwhelming numbers, as many "as the stars in heaven". The Europeans were
accustomed to own land and laid claim to it while they considered the Indians to be
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