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The excerpts from william bradford's of plymouth plantation do suggest possibilities of coexistence and cooperation between native americans and the english.
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And we're gonna talk about four examples here.
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So first is samoset and squanto.
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So within the expert or excerpt, excuse me, samoset, who's an indigenous man, approaches the english settlers and he initiates contact by speaking english words that he had learned from fisherman.
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So this led to really initial communication and eventually we see the crucial role of squanto, who's another indigenous man who had lived in england and played a significant role as a translator and intermediary between the english and the wampanoag people.
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So these individuals really helped bridge the language and the cultural gap, which really helped facilitate early cooperation between the two groups.
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The next, there is the treaty with massasoit.
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So william bradford describes the negotiation of this treaty between the plymouth settlers and the massasoit, which is the wampanoag leader.
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So this treaty, which includes mutual defense and mutual trade agreements, it really laid the foundation for cooperation, again, between these two groups.
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So this treaty was really a crucial step in establishing coexistence and establishing peaceful relations.
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Third, we have mutual assistance.
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So bradford's account really details a lot of insistence of mutual assistance...