>>22589980
People always start the history w/the natives based off Hollywood/west and that's all they teach in school.
The truth is, by the time 1776 rolled around, we had been at peace since the landing of the pilgrims. Most tribes vanished via assimilation, as the natives offered their daughters as wives to form lasting/unbreakable treaties and it helped us w/the little problem of having a small gene pool.
When the British conned a few native scouts into believing 'if' they helped the British fight, not only would they force out the 'white man', they could have/keep whatever was left behind. Native men were pretty dumb and some went to war w/us. Only some because by this time, the natives were several generations deep w/the original settlers so it was an easy choice for the majority of natives on the east coast, the pilgrims were literally 'family'.
By the time our nation pushed west, whole different ball of wax, they rolled those natives and just butchered them. They didn't have the same loving experience as those in the east.