Most people are taught that the natives were treated friendly when the Europeans came to explore, this is not the case. Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford and The General History of Virginia by John Smith are novels of settlers and native relations. In both John Smith and William Bradford's texts, the men show themselves as heroes and the natives as lesser by denigrating their language, tricking them with contracts, and, having negative expectations.
The Pilgrims, like the settlers at Jamestown, first see themselves as better by degenerating the language of the Native Americans. The settlers go through a long voyage at sea with many problems.…