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Indians and Europeans

As in every society, constituents find themselves as a direct product of their economic environments; one must note the contrasting dependence levels and schemes of value between the European colonists and the Indians, during the 1600s.
As Indians began to witness European colonists come to America, at a more consistent rate, and begin settling nearer to them, trading goods was more frequent and created revolutionary "economic dynamics" in the new world. The Indian way of life went untouched for many years, however, once the Europeans landed the established survival skills of the Indians were inevitably transitioned to a dependent state on European goods.
Indians eventually sought many of the things Europeans offered in trade, not for what the Europeans thought valuable about them, but for what those things conveyed in Indian schemes of value. The traded European goods could become rare and exotic to Indians, creating social and survival consequences.
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