During the times when there were quite a bit of Native Americans still living in the US, people, including military leaders traded guns for some of the things that the tribes had. The Native Americans had not seen or used a gun before and this was much better than the weapons they were using, so they took on using guns as part of their everyday life. Which is also why there were so many Native American revolts against the "White men" otherwise known as the commmon citizen back then.
John Smith gave the Native Americans his compass. The ivory and glass pocket compass that Powhatan had admired so much.
ivory compass dial
make friends with them
Smith attitude towards Native Americans was a little unsure. He wanted to trust them but had a hard time doing it.
John Smith said that the Native Americans brought food to the starving colonists because they did. Pocahontas brought food from the Native Americans to the colonists during their first winter or they would have starved.
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He was a trapper and the attitude in his time was to kill Native Americans. He lived with the Native Americans in central California along the the Tule lake for a long time until a Mexican patrol came along and kicked him out of the California . He was killed at a watering hole by a Native American several years later.
The founders of Maryland are John Smith, King Charles I, LordGoerge Calvert, Calvert, and the Native Americans.
Smith attitude towards Native Americans was a little unsure. He wanted to trust them but had a hard time doing it.
he was hungry
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John Smith said that the Native Americans brought food to the starving colonists because they did. Pocahontas brought food from the Native Americans to the colonists during their first winter or they would have starved.
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yes, no, maybe so
Why did Smith say the Native Americans brought food to the starving colonists?
the native Americans who were living in the area where the pilgrims settled
As with most Europeans of the time he thought of the Native Americans as less and used terms to show his disdain towards them. A reference that they are like children is one of those comments. Children are naive, don't know much, and have to be watched over and taken care of. This is how they saw slaves and Native Americans.
Captain John Smith, who explored the Bay in 1607, found primarily Algonquin-speaking Native Americans living by its shores.