Writing Assignment #1Kera DutyOver thousands of years, the indigenous north Americans had displayed remarkableresilience of adapting to the uncertainties of the frequent warfare, changing climate and differentenvironment. The natives faced new challenges created by the Europeans arrival. During theprocess of the adapting their heritage and ways of life to unwanted new realities, the nativeAmericans played a significant role in creating and shaping America. When the English settlerscame during the seventeenth century the new land reigned with native life. Withing the true newSpain and new France, European diseases such as smallpox and the plague. These epidemicswiped out whole societies, Leaving the villages in in widow. Without the Native Americanshelped the first European settlers survive when they came to North America. Without NativeAmerican help, it is possible that some of the early settlements, such as the British settlement ofPlymouth, which received much support from Powhatan and the Wampanoag tribe, might nothave survived. This tribe showed the British settlers where to farm and raise crops that could be
