From the start of relations between American Indians and the English there had always been differences that would eventually lead to misunderstandings, conflict, and wars. The issues between the American Indians and the English in the early seventeenth century can be boiled down to essentially just a few things; Raw cultural differences, religion, trade, and land. These differences would ultimately be chalked up as probably the worst relationship in American history, not to mention it would also lead to the near extinction of the American Indians. Who would have ever thought that this relationship started out as a mildly healthy one.

In the beginning, 1607, when the english settlers arrived in present day Virginia nobody had the intentions of wiping out an entire civilization. In fact, all they really sought out for was to save their own country. The English at the time had a serious problem with overpopulation and a linked crumbling economy.The solution to their problem was to send over large numbers of …show more content…
By 1610 the English were ready and willing to convert every Indian to christianity and were angered when the Indians did not want to comply. The English found the easiest way to convert and Indian, was to capture them. This was reassured when Pocahontas was captured and converted in 1613. Pocahontas married an Englishman named John Rolfe.

Finally, the Native Indians had enough. In 1622 tribes attacked the English ending in a massacre. The Indians brutally attacked and killed the English with anything they could. After the massacre Natives and Settlers essentially broke out in an unfair war. The Indians simply did not have the firepower or manpower to hold off the English and by 1644 less than 2,000 Native Indians remained and were forced to sign a treaty isolating themselves to Indian Reserves farther west. The same year Virginia lost its’ charter and became an English