European immigration in America has changed many aspects of the land. It has altered the population, culture, and inhabitants of America immensely. Overall, the impact that
European immigrants had was negative. The traditions and customs of the native communities began to quickly disappear due to the immigration of Europeans to America.
Due to the Europeans migrating to America, the identity of the Native Americans has since deteriorated. The natives’ association with the European immigrants resulted in the subjugation and death of their tribes. The Europeans brought a variety of diseases with them while migrating to America, and the diseases, along with warfare, killed a majority of the Native
Americans. According to Of Plymouth Plantation, consequently, many of the immigrants also…show more content… The natives were defenseless against the epidemic.
Although the natives were impacted dramatically by the diaspora of Europeans, the
Native Americans also affected the immigrants by exemplifying how to assemble better houses and cook mouthwatering meals. In Coming of Age in the Dawnland, author Charles C. Mann describes how well built the “wetu”, home, of the Native Americans are. “ The wetu was less leaky than the typical English wattle-and-daub house, too,” (1146-147). Mann admires the wetu for the way they, “...deny entrance to any drop of rain, though it come both fierce and long,”
(148). In the text, the food that the natives dine upon is, “...so sweet, toothsome, and hearty…,”
(162). The immigrants learn how to construct wellbuilt houses and delicious food from the
Native Americans.
Although in Of Plymouth Plantation and Coming of the Age in the Dawnland, the immigrants and the natives have a harmonious relationship, in The Tempest, the relationship between the “immigrants” and the “natives” is not as congenial. In The Tempest, Prospero
