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Dear journal

Today I am going to write about my earliest childhood memories. The earliest memories I have is a story that my great grandfather told me. It was about the sixteenth century when his life would begin to change drastically. One day he started to see men with pale complexions this was unusual to him he had never seen men like this. It was not just the complexion of their skin but the hair on their faces and the clothes they wear. This was not the most shocking thing to my great grandfather; this was the first time he was exposed to such technology. The men with pale complexions carried steel knives and swords. Their ships were like nothing he had ever seen before equipped with cannons and mirrors and brass kettles. The technology was like nothing any of the Native Americans had ever seen before. The Native Americans and the pale men would soon come to dislike each other. The Native Americans appreciated nature and their surroundings but the Europeans saw everything as a resource the trees were lumber for building and the heard of buffalo would be look at as a heard of robes for them to wear. Soon the Europeans would see my people as resources to. The Europeans were very materialistic this is something my people were not accustomed to. We looked at it as they were destroying our home land and everything we worked so hard to preserve. The Europeans not only brought with them their will and desire to conquer our homeland but when they came they brought with them something that my people could have never prepared for. They brought with them diseases that would wipe out a mass number of my people. Then the Europeans started arriving in massive numbers claiming land as if we were never here. Treating my homeland as if it was theirs and I was never here we preserved the land just for them to come and tear down what we were so accustom to. We did not own the land we shared our land with each other the Europeans come in and start marking their territories taking what was ours. We lived without conflict but it was eventually going to come. We were greatly outnumbered and their weapons were far more superior to ours. The first conflict came due to the Europeans thinking we would welcome them and provide them with our food in exchange for their tools. Our leader Wahunsonacook at first agreed with the exchange of food for tools but the Europeans were putting us at risk of starvation. What the Europeans did not understand was that we only hunted and gathered enough supplies