Puritans and Natives Essay

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Puritans. They saw Indians as the inferior race and that led to conflict because they had different prospective on land ownership, Indians believe that land is open to everyone, puritans will enclose any piece of land and call it theirs.
Puritans beliefs- The Puritans believed that the Bible was God's true law, and that it provided a plan for living. In short they believed in god, they have a very strict life and rules, they normally did not like any one that wasn’t puritan and they hate witches
Indian beliefs - there were very many tribes when the religious principles were passed down verbally. Many of these groups had their own beliefs though many of them were similar in the major aspects. Native American religion tends to focus around nature. The landscape, animals, plants, and other environmental elements play a major role in the religion of Native Americans. Many of the legends passed down were an attempt to explain events that occurred in nature. Native American religion includes a number of practices, ceremonies, and traditions. These ceremonies may be in honor of a number of events. The practice of taking certain hallucinogens was commonly used to gain greater insight or communicate with the gods. Ceremonies may include feasts, music, dances, and other performances. In the past, Native American religion was not classified as a religion. Their beliefs were not understood and the complexity of their religion was not seen. This was partly the result of not having a