During colonial rule, race relations between the colonists and natives was said to be like apartheid.
This river has been the setting of many battles between natives and the Spanish.
It is particularly depressing when this takes place between natives of the same country.
Thus there could be no "final battle" between conquerors and natives.
To understand them, it is necessary to look back in time, and beyond the physical sharing of the island between natives and newcomers.
They were divided equally between natives and expatriates, just as Cherry had suggested.
Relations between the colonists and natives varied from constructive trade to armed conflict.
Instead of cooperation there were altercations between the Iroquois and local natives.
A year later the fort was abandoned following conflict between traders and natives.
There was no evidence whatever for this theory, but it served the purpose of accentuating the difference between 'natives' and Europeans.