The idea that foreigners - are The Americans - is a true, honest statement..
However - There were many early European 17th century Puritan refugees who had fled the protestant religious government in England.
It is said that Even outcast Jews were instrumental in Columbus's first voyage and even traveled with him on his journey aboard the October Flower.
Many, many more different types of Characters and Personalities of a wide variety of people came into the Land - after the Pilgrims and Puritans, many with bad intentions, cruelty and evil in their hearts.
Evil and horrible Slave Traders, Slave Owners, Indian abusers and abusers of themselves and all nature and life around them. Gun slingers and drunks, rapists and thieves. The Bill of Rights and the Constitution was a useful tool and effective idea of establishing a system of Laws and Orders with EQUALITY, RESPECT, RIGHTS and CONDUCT - that was expected LAW to be followed for ALL White Citizens. Giving bodies of governments in each City, Town and court to execute judgment and punishments.
At first of the Rights - these great Laws did not protect Blacks nor Indians because the majority of Blacks and Indians were not culturally in the same thought pattern as the Europeans. They were not educated in the way or type and style or behavior of reasoning, The thought processing, The resolution of conflicts and methods of dealing out punishments and rewards There was a great, HUGE wall of culture clash that was also made worse by language differences and the way the White, Brown and Black races even Looked so different from one another.
Paranoia, Fear, Religious and Spiritual differences. The Methods of Raising Families and Monogamy idea with a mandated, expected Lifetime OATH of enduring Faithfull commitment between Man and Wife.
The Blacks and Indians both did not have these ideas scribed into written form with a romance language and style of expressions and communications as the Whites. Even if some of them did indeed have that idea of Marriage.
The Indians or the Blacks used more Grunts and Guttural speech sound) produced in the throat; wide elaborate communicated expressive hand gestures, Slaps, Waves and Claps. Pointing and using sticks, stones, and abstract distant, vague meaning lines in the dirt or upon a wall or a tree that are removed and erased with the elements of the weather.
The Indians or the Blacks used more verbal clucking sounds - hoots and yelps and strange gestures and used allot of DEEP facial eXpressions and strong emotions, that were very foreign, strange, and useless and seemed insulting and meaningless - to the Whites. *( in their world of communication. )
The Indians or the Blacks used - Mystery and the joy of Confusion and Self Proclaimed , self injected statements of obvious playful joy to the realm of the unknown and ignorance - They had Spiritual connections to a Spirit world that had Magic Men and Shamans and Witch Doctors - who used Smoke, Drugs, Hallucinogens, Strong Smelling Weeds and Grasses and Leaves. They Used Shakers - Rattlers and Drums and Painted on their Face and bodies. They used methods of self mutilation and Self torture, Cutting their bodies. Power Quests in an drugged induced state of mind - and cutting and piercing the body parts was a token of status and importance in the uppermost, in the level of tribal obtainment.
Either - The Indians or the Blacks or Both of them - Commonly used Twisting and Contorting of the body, in great Dances and Chants, with Circles of Bodies - Crying, Screaming, Moaning and Circling, Dancing around the Fires for long, long hours, until they passed out in a Drug induced trip of intoxication or eXhaustion.
They used Human and Animal blood to perform ceremonies, drinking raw blood intoxicant Potions, flowers and roots and herbs to heal.
With acceptance of Adult men and women - Wearing just a small, short girth - cloth over the genital area, with children freely - running in the open nude. And Using bones of humans and animals, feathers and claws and - a variety of SKULLS for spiritual connections to the world of spirits and demons.
The Blacks and Indians did not both do all of these Things but one of the other did.
Just based on major difference of the Communication and Sociological - and human social behaviors. The Whites used written signs, books, symbols,
The Clash was so great and overcoming that accepting one race into the other race, if not social differences made it impossible. the Skin tone different and Facial structures - tore them apart, in an innocent but natural harmless way.
Time was the only thing that could heal this gap. Slavery and stealing of Indian lands is a crime that can never be justified.
it is a horror that we can remember and vow to never repeat, allow or Promote again.
I and People such as Myself wish that all Americans had behaved as Pilgrims, Puritans and Refugees. Who came here because they had no other safe place to dwell. But that has never been the Case.