s gaze to the
             past." With this quote Tompkins is again reinforcing the point that when one looks back
             on history, they only see what they want to see, ignoring all of the facts.
             Next, Tompkins looks at a book called "New England Frontier: Puritans and
             Indians" which was written by Alden Vaughan and published in 1965. His book was a
             contradiction to the previous book Tompkins looked at. In Vaughan's account of the
             Indians they were treated fairly. "New England Puritans followed a remarkably humane,
             considerate, and just policy in their dealings with the Indians." This statement from
             Vaughan's account says that the Puritans were not treating the Indians poorly at all, but
             treating them with respect. This ranged from trading with them, honor treaties or pacts
             that were made, and not going to war with the Indians.
             Tompkins then looks at "The Invasion of America, written by Francis Jennings. In
             his account of the Puritan-Indian relationship the Indians were treated horribly:
             Early settlers lied to the Indians, stole from them,
             murdered them, scalped them, captured them, tortured them,
             raped then, sold them into slavery, confiscated their land,
             destroyed their crops, burned their homes, scattered their
             possessions, gave them alcohol, undermined their systems of
             belief, and infected them with diseases that wiped out 90
             percent of their numbers within the first hundred years after
             Obviously this is a much different story than that of the one told by Vaughan. In
             his the settlers were living in harmony with the Indians. While in Jennings account the
             settlers did every thing possible to make the lives of the Indians as horrible as possible,
             stealing from them, lying to them, and even killing them to do what the settlers wanted to
             accomplish. Jennings also blames the settlers for wiping out 90 perc
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