early settelers' journals

All this week we have been looking at journals. Journals in movies and journals in our books. And every journal we have read has been from the point of view of the settlers. But what if we studied history through the eyes of the Indians? It’s not that I am saying we should disregard the settlers' accounts, but it has to be realized that the Native Americans saw things in a completely different view. What the settlers saw (from what I can put together by journals) were humans. But they weren't humans that resembled those making the same voyage; they were a completely different species. And the difference and radical changes that came with the Native Americans scared the settlers and formed an image in their mind of people who were an enemy and someone to be protected from. But to the Indians, the settlers were invaders. Strange men and women much paler than they and living a very different lifestyle. The Indians loved nature and saw it as a mother to them, while the settlers took land for granted, as something that could be conquered and tamed. Something they had at their disposal and could do with as they pleased. So how would our view of our history, and of what happened to form our country, change if we took it from a Native American point of view? What if we saw ourselves not as those that conquered this strange, new, challenging, and dangerous land? But, as those who had already established a way of life, and were invaded by a culture that saw us as enemies and savages, and then finally, as an allies. Now I’m not claiming to be an expert on either the Native Americans or the settlers, but am throwing out the question, what if?