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Major purpose to locate the shifting conditions and politics of women in settler societies within frameworks that provides a sense of how indigenous people and other migrants not regarded as settlers are constructed and viewed by the public eye. It also illustrates how tension and national ethnic struggles as well as racial violence have transferred over to the United States with its European Settlers. When Europeans arrived to the Americas they had no clue of how the Indigenous culture function and many had never seen them. The European settlers only new “civilized society”, the indigenous community was the total opposite of what they wanted to see or even expected. They also rejected the traditional oral stories to tell history and important events. This was just out of the question for the new immigrants. Settlers suggested that oral stories are not a reliable source to tell history because it can be told different by each individual. This book really wants to make sure the readers can understand each individual issue concerning settler societies like, colonialism, capitalism, gender, class and race/ ethnicity. It is important that one can understand these issues and then be able to visualize how they never occur on their own; instead it is always a mixture of problems that occur. With the rising conflict between the settler societies and indigenous people it is important to understand the conflicts that occurred within a society. For example when an indigenous person is educated in a white school and becomes more involved with the settler society, it can cause much chaos and discontent within the society. Just the idea is disrespect towards the elders and the indigenous community, because it sends the message that they are not good enough. European settlers proclaimed themselves the superior culture since upon arrival indigenous communities were dispossessed without remorse. The expansion of tobacco farms west was bad news for the indigenous community once more. The European settlers just too the land they need and didn’t think twice to displace Natives. Natives put up a fight and a series of wars broke out, but the European style army was to powerful, land was soon occupied by slaves and plantations. This became a regular pattern, European settlers needed land and they would simply take it from the Indigenous community and send them further and further west.