lack of facts on indian history

There have always been disputes between the early settlers of the New England area and the native indians where they settled, as to what type of relationship they had. Although many people weigh in on the subject it really amounts to your biased opinion at the time. The people studying the subject now look back to books wrote by the settlers then during their encounters and base our opinions off of theirs. Although their "real facts" are all different, there are no concrete ideas of their relationship. One says that they really didn't exist in his eyes, and the land was there for the taking, others claim that we destroyed their civilization and brought disease and discomfort to their lifestyle. Another opinion is that the English didn't do anything different that they did to their own people which was to exploit and take over. Jane Tompkins overall feels that she has no real defenite feeling of what actually happened because she does not have first hand experience from a non biased point of view, all records are tainted because of their situation when arriving and encountering the Indians.