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With the coming of the English and other Europeans in the early 1600s, that good life and just about, everything else was completely transformed forever. Years ago, the Public Broadcasting series Masterpiece Theater had a production of The Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper’s historical novel describing the last days of the dominance of Indian civilizations in eastern North America after the coming of the European settlers. In his introduction, series host Alistair Cooke succinctly summarized the period: “The (English) colonists who came to North American annihilated one civilization and replaced it with another”. This description was literally true in many areas. Locally the process was more indirect, but yielded the same result. Imported diseases and hostile pressure from other tribes allied with the French and English led to the disappearance of the Mohacans and Mannahoacks from the Blue Ridge region. Whether they all sknply died or were assimilated into other tribes is not clear.
What changed perhaps more than anything else with arrival of the colonists was the conceptual relationship of humans to the land. Of great significance to all that later
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