The natives listened to the foreigners' beliefs without complaint and did not mind their supposed ways but they did change their view of the white men when they began to scour their land for precious materials, such as gold.  The white men attacked the natives for their land so that they may take what it held.  They killed many and enslaved the rest to be shipped off to Europe as slaves.  Resistance brought on the use of guns and sabers, and whole tribes were destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people in less than a decade after Columbus set foot on the beach of San Salvador, October 12, 1492.

-Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee