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<blockquote data-quote="Sammie" data-source="post: 213556" data-attributes="member: 8657"><p>Arrow,</p><p> </p><p>You might want to look at this with a different point of view. Between s<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">mallpox, plague, famine, starvation, lack of shelter and violence, many of our first colonists didn't survive. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Until the natives took the initiative and developed relationships,</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> or I doubt the white race would have made it. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Just one of many examples - When a group of settlers showed up here without a clue for shelter or food, the Maryland Yaocomico's felt so sorry for them that they agreed to live in half of their village for a year and they invited the settlers live in the other half. Worked out great.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">You think we taught ourselves to build shelters, to garden and cook what grew here, to hunt and fish? Native American practical information and what little primitive healing the English knew kept folks alive. You enjoy going to a sauna, right? Where do you think that idea came from? We coexisted quite well and quite often! Many of the colonial maps show cities with an Indian community at the edge of town and there was no animosity.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Until we got greedy.....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammie, post: 213556, member: 8657"] Arrow, You might want to look at this with a different point of view. Between s[FONT=Verdana]mallpox, plague, famine, starvation, lack of shelter and violence, many of our first colonists didn't survive. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Until the natives took the initiative and developed relationships,[/FONT][FONT=Verdana] or I doubt the white race would have made it. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Just one of many examples - When a group of settlers showed up here without a clue for shelter or food, the Maryland Yaocomico's felt so sorry for them that they agreed to live in half of their village for a year and they invited the settlers live in the other half. Worked out great.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]You think we taught ourselves to build shelters, to garden and cook what grew here, to hunt and fish? Native American practical information and what little primitive healing the English knew kept folks alive. You enjoy going to a sauna, right? Where do you think that idea came from? We coexisted quite well and quite often! Many of the colonial maps show cities with an Indian community at the edge of town and there was no animosity.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Until we got greedy.....[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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