Indian/European Encounters

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This article provides a discussion of the encounters between European colonizers and New World peoples. In this paper the writer includes a look at the role of religion. The writer studies the European vision of the New World as a paradise of fortune and a desire for profits above all else.

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"When Columbus erroneously concluded that he had reached India after landing in the New World he set in motion a process of exploitation of the indigenous peoples of the so-called New World that persisted throughout the period of European colonization and the establishment of the United States after the Revolutionary War. That is not to say that such exploitation was terminated with the founding of the U.S. however, the specifically European as opposed to American encounter with the indigenous represented the first historical wave of the relationship and ... "

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