Cooperation or Conflict?

Europeans and Native Americans learned to work together.

• Cooperation

• Conflict

Europeans and Native Americans were able to trade for things they needed or wanted.

• Cooperation

• Conflict

Europeans traded metal tools/kettles which were stronger and cloth which was easier to clean. Native Americans traded animal furs. They also traded food for the European’s firearms.

• Cooperation

• Conflict

In the beginning, Europeans were afraid of the Native Americans. White people did not understand the American Indian culture or way of life.

• Cooperation

• Conflict

Native Americans were scared of Europeans at first because they were different.

• Cooperation

• Conflict

Europeans brought horses and Native Americans used them to travel faster.

• Cooperation

• Conflict

Native Americans shared their language with Europeans that we still use today. (kayak, moccasins, hominy, toboggan) Many interpreted between the tribes and the Europeans.

• Cooperation

• Conflict

Native American leader, Massasoit, was friendly to the Europeans. He traded goods, gave land, taught Europeans how to protect themselves, and defended them when they were attacked.

• Cooperation

• Conflict

Europeans brought diseases. Two-thirds of the Native Americans died.

• Cooperation

• Conflict

Europeans took some of the Native Americans as slaves, like Squanto.

• Cooperation

• Conflict