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How did the first english settlers and rbe native americans they met form a relationship?

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Colonists captured Powhatan's favorite daughter, Pocahontas, who soon married John Rolfe. Their marriage did help relations between Native Americans and colonists. With the reorganization of the colony under Sir Edwin Sandys, liberal land policies led to the dispersion of English settlements along the James River.

The English treated the Natives as inferior, believed they stood in the way of their God-given right to the land in America, and tried to subject the Natives to their laws as they established their colonies.

The British had no respect or kindness for the Native Americans of the New World. Far from respecting the Native American's right to land, freedom, and health, the British did not even recognize the Native Americans as people. The Native Americans were thought to have the soul of animals.

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