Research Paper on:
Indian and European Interaction Patterns

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during colonial times were a seething continent of discontent both as a result of the bitter interaction which was unfolding between the Native Americans and between the various factions of  the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in regard to their interaction with the Native Americans  werent, after all, the only European invader in this land. There were also the Dutch, Swedes, French, and the Spanish and all had their share of problems both with  the Native Americans and with other Europeans. Many times, in fact, Native Americans were successful in capitalizing on the problems which existed between the Europeans. More often than  not, however, it was the Native Americans who lost the most in the seething cauldron of colonial discontent. Native alliances with the various  European factions varied both according to the time period and according to group. Rather than acting as a united body to deal with the white encroachers the tremendously diverse  Native Americans found their interests and allegiances split. This diversion of interests is no better illustrated than in the Southeast. There the Choctaw would ally themselves with the  French and would have extensive warfare with the Chickasaw. The Creeks on the other hand played with allegiances to each of the main colonial powers, English, French and Spanish.  The Creeks would have extensive warfare with the Cherokee because of territorial overlap and because of the Cherokees eventual alliance with the English after the Seven Years War.  The different alliances which were chosen by Native American groups during colonial times accounts for only one of the factors which served