Pequot_Indians__Who_Really_Owned_This_Land_

Who really owned this land' The English’s description of the natural environment as ‘wilderness’ reflects their attitude towards the ecology of the new world as a self-centralized idea; in some aspects more than others. The main aspects being religion and the expansion of their people. The English traveled to this land occupied by the Pequots in search of clarity of their past woes and to purify them. They lived strictly by their beliefs in the bible and this led them to become one with themselves. The English believed that they were bestowed with the land that they received through god. Whereas it was really offered to them through a minor sense of vacuum domicilium due to their unseen companion, disease. But the English viewed the land as their own thus the populations began to grow and they had to expand. The only way to go was into the ‘wilderness’ and this is where the English’s view of the ecology to the new world really kicked in. To the English, you didn’t own the land unless you controlled it, modified it, cultivated it, tamed it, and built permanent structures on it. The Pequot had more of a versatile and peaceful way of ‘their’ land. They enjoyed it for what it was and used its resources to their advantage. Since the Pequots viewed the land this way and it didn’t match up with the English’s views, they didn’t view it as the Pequots land. Even if it was their land, it could be taken from the Pequots because they weren’t considered proper in the terns of religion. The English viewed the ‘wilderness’ as a reference to the devil and the Pequots living in the wilderness as the devils children. This practically explained the English’s behavior towards the Pequots. They viewed the Pequots as lower than themselves; that they didn’t have the right to live there and only the English founded this land and it was theirs for the taking. This projected these two head strong cultures to collide further down the road to see who would own the new world in terms of superiority.