This picture shows the early explorers and Native Americans getting along and respecting each other. This is not an accurate picture because it does not show the truth that happened to the Native Americans. For example, the early explorers gave many diseases to the Native Americans such as smallpox, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and typus. The explorers also did not do good things to the Native Americans. They forced the Cherokee to move from their homes in North Carolina to an Indian Reservation in Oklahoma because the explorers wanted the land the Cherokee had for their own settlement and selfish desires.
I think it is really sad that the explorers could do such things to the Native Americans for multiple reasons. (1) The Native Americans treated the explorers so well. They gave them food and shelter and treated them like gods. (2) The land was the Cherokees to begin with and the explorers did not even care. (3) The explorers were so selfish that they did not even realize that they were killing the Native Americans and their culture by doing such things.
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