The word "integrate" means "to come together into a unified whole." Though many Native Americans at first cooperated with colonial communities, selling them food and land and coexisting in other ways, they did not integrate. Worse, as more settlers to the American colonies arrived, more leaders like Captain John Smith of Virginia eventually began to take resources from the Native Americans by force. This sense of entitlement on the part of English settlers alienated the Native Americans even further.
Even before the relationships between the settlers and the Native Americans began deteriorate in this way, suspicion between the two groups already existed. The Spanish colonists had inspired a general feeling of mistrust amongst many Native Americans, so when the English settlers showed themselves to be demanding and violent, the Native Americans were primed to defend themselves.
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