Thomas Morton If This Land Analysis

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One of the ways that they did this was by learning the season and moving according to where best benefited them the most. This caused many things different aspects of their life to be affected. Thomas Morton wrote “If this Land be not rich, then is the whole world poore.” (33) And while it seemed like the Indians where poor by their lack of material possessions, they were migratory people. Because Indians moved around so much they needed to keep their possessions and belongings to a minimum and only the necessities to be brought along. This caused many Europeans to have a pre-conceived notion that Indians were in poverty. Their houses were made of wooden frames and covered by bark or grass and could be easily taken down, were used in the summer …show more content…
In the spring the tribes would stock up with fish and plants. Because spring time was when most of the time was being used up the Indians devised a diverse labor much different than the Europeans. Women were in charge of the farming and the men would be in charge of hunting, in Europe farming was seen as a man’s job and hunting was done as a sport, because of the lack of wild animals (with the exception of animals on acreage on richer families). This also caused the settlers to view the Indian men as lazy. When farming did occur the Indians used their cornfields to raise more than just corn, an agriculture that seemed unorderly under the European eye, who were accustomed to monoculture fields. Champlain noted “ with the corn they put in each hill three or four Brazilian beans, which are of different colors. When they grow up, they interlace with the corn, which reaches to the height of from five to size feet; and they keep the ground very free from weeds. We saw there many squashes, and pumpkin and tobacco, which they likewise cultivate.” Although the Indians may have not realized it at the time the harvest of beans and corn provided the amino acids necessary for a balanced diet of vegetable
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