Though colonists, “with gunpowder and steel… had the technological edge in warfare,” it is wrong to assume that natives cowered to fight back and protect their homes (5). The Indians worked by, “forging uncanny alliances with the Dutch and then the English in New York,” for their own benefit as they quickly adapted to the new European weapons and mannerisms as they tricked Europeans for working with them (6). In summary, both new Americans and Natives discovered new marvels as their ways of life were completely changed for better and for worse.
Native American Oral Literature
Along with other differences between the natives and the Spaniards in Wayne Franklin’s “The Beginnings of 1700” chapter, “Native American Oral Literature”, the colonists, whose homeland, Europe, “was on the way to becoming a print culture” found