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Why might Native Americans not trust Europeans?

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Because they have been treated terribly by them throughout generations, their land stolen and their people murdered.

If the question was referring to lack of trust upon the first contact, then because they were new, unknown people, and they had no idea if they were going to help or hurt them.
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Because they where colonized by the Europeans

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