When European powers fought one another during this period,
it was over territories where Native Americans and settlers were living. Wars that were fought during this period
often affected both groups. Both sides
had Native American tribes fighting for them.
Apart from being used in these conflicts, many of these tribes were
nearly wiped out by diseases brought by colonists and settlers. On the relationship between settlers and
Indians, both have fought each other over land.
The Native Americans resented the intrusion of settlers into their
ancestral territory and this led to numerous conflicts between them.
