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Both the Native Americans and explorers were ruthless and motivated, but the Natives were at a disadvantage because you cannot compete against what you do not know.

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The europeans and the Native Americans have differing ideas on wealth and intelligence, the europeans view your wealth based off of how intelligent you are, where as Native Americans view wealth as health, and prosperity with food, which causes Europeans to feel as though they are more intelligent than the Native Americans, leading them to feel more superior, and then war over who is more dominant based off of intelligence.

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Native Americans oral traditions have a more authentic system in keeping records as compared to the written records we see in our history today.

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Whoever has the best understanding of how to live in the land has the most power.

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The Native Americans were kind and hospitable to foreigners in most cases, and were only hostile when they were threatened by violence or conquest.

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The Native Americans and explorers had different views of land ownership in the way that the Native Americans did not necessarily claim the land, but rather they just lived on it, whereas the explorers wanted to claim it as their own because they felt as though they had the authority to claim it.

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Early European explorers showed a sense of greed and self-absorbance, most see them as taking over a poor, mostly peaceful, and incapable people group (Native Americans); textually this is not true, therefore I believe the explorers were justified.

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Europeans valued economic intelligence and monetary wealth over spiritual expression and nature, for this reason they believed they were superior to the natives and had a right to conquer their land.

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The Native Americans lived connected to the nature, they found importance and value within the land, while the Europeans were motivated by greed and desire for control and power over the territory.

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The Natives showed they valued their resources compared to the explorers who wanted to exploit the resources for trade, this idea is still relevant with the idea of exporting our own goods or using them for ourselves.

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Native Americans and Europeans had distinct differences and yet could have been able to live in harmony with each other, yet Europeans were motivated by conquering the land and using up the resources with disregard for the Natives, while the Natives valued the land and used it wisely, not letting any resource go to waste.

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The Native Americans and the explorers both acted upon preconceived notions about one another's cultures, values, views - these ideas were then implemented into how we handle differing views/conflicts within our nation.

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The Natives Americans ideas about religious and medicinal practices influenced the explorers ideas of homeopathic medicine, and reflected their differences in cultural medicinal applications to disease.

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Whereas Europeans viewed exploration on the Native's land as shareable and resourceful, the Native American's felt a particular protection and defense over their land, and those ideals are incorporated into society today as we are protective over who enters and inhabitants our home country.

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The European explorers and the Natives that had a preexisting culture, could not coexist without adapting.

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The Iroquois Constitution and Origin stories relay the fact that the Native Americans were people oriented and saw their tribe as well as other people as a family, while the European explorers were more focused on the image of their country and themselves, instead of thinking of people as a big family.

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In all of the documents we've read there's been a common theme of hospitality on the part of the Native Americans. Based on the ways that they provide for the Europeans by giving them food and offering them shelter. It speaks highly to their respect of the planet and its inhabitants, and it also demonstrates that they'd rather make allies than enemies.

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Europeans and the Indians were both holding high respect for the land but expressed it in completely different ways, resulting in conflict between the two clashing worldviews.

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Throughout these stories, the explorers' initial views of the Native Americans shaped their relationships with the Native Americans, and the explorers' upbringings and teachings shaped how they saw the Native Americans.

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Europeans took advantage of the Natives' relatively low maintenance lives; they were satisfied with their community and the land while the Europeans came from much wealth with intentions to gain more.

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The native americans and conquers have differing views on ownership because the native americans believe that since they have lived and worked the land that they are in control of it and the explorers believe that if they put on a flag on it and claim it as theirs that it belongs to them and these differing ideas were a huge foundation to our country and how we view our right to the land we live on.

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Natives shared and valued the resources versus the Europeans sought ownership over them, and this idea has been fought upon even to this day, with how we use and share our resources within our own country.

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The Native Americans commitment to the land and satisfaction with their space serves as a foil to European society, which we can see is extremely devoted to exploration and expansion, which is something that gets directly passed on to American society.

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Both the Native Americans and the explorers lived by either religious morals or preconceived notions, that were eventually transferred and incorporated into our country's core values, as well as contributing to its character.

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1. Put your name at the top of a note.

2. Post your one sentence position statement that is arguable and insightful (not vague, must be able to see how someone could potentially see things differently than you do).

3. Then read other position statements. "Like" them if you think they do not need changing. If you have a suggestion, leave it in the comments starting with "I wonder if..."