Why did the Native American have such a strong will and courage to defy the Europeans and not become slaves?

Question

Why did the Native American have such a strong will and courage to defy the Europeans and not become slaves?

Answer 1

I wanna know just as much as you do when you find out let me know or your thoughts

Answer 2

Because initially - the Native Americans were trying to make slaves out of the Europeans.

You need to remember that the histories you are reading in school were chosen to support a politically popular viewpoint.

The histories that focus more on factual accuracy and less on political correctness tell a much different story.

For example - go read a military history of King Phillip's war and compare that with what is in you school's history books.

Answer 3

Umm...this was their land!

Answer 4

It was not the Europeans intention to make the Indians their slaves.  I wonder did you learn anything in American History in High School??

Answer 5

Europeans didn't want them as slaves, that's what black people were for. Ultimately it didn't matter what the Native Americans did, their society was doomed by the sheer weight of numbers of Europeans settling in the New World, exacerbated by the lack of immunity to European diseases.

Some people when they have nothing to lose will fight anyway for the h**l of it, it's not a trait particular to the Native Americans, but can be found anywhere that a group of people are being subjugated by despots or invaders.

Answer 6

There was nothing special about it. They died in droves. When Columbus started lopping off body parts, the slaves started running for the hills, as would be perfectly natural, but they were systematically run down. Later, their inability to withstand the rigors of slavery led their Iberian masters to import hardier stock from Africa.

The "noble savage" myth on the continent arose also from purely practical considerations: well into the nineteenth century, white slavers were few in numbers, and there were a lot of Native Americans. One doesn't generally pick a fight against a force superior in both manpower and firepower.

Answer 7

Apparently they didn't share the white's ignorant view that they were superior and felt no need to submit to them.