The moment Arthur Barlowe handed a few gifts to Wingina’s scout from his ship, that was a moment the Native Americans and the British settlers really could have started their partnership off well. Both parties could have brought so much to the table that would have allowed each other to prosper and grow. Though friendly and mature partnership could have been formed between the Natives and British settlers, the exact opposite happened. How did it come to be that instead of trading resources with each other peacefully, both Indians and British faced an event where a head was found in Edward Nugent’s hand? Why couldn't the Indians and the British just get along? When Queen Elizabeth I gave Sir Walter Raleigh, the man that is known as the real pioneer of American Civilization [xi], the right to discover, search, find out, and view a new land [35], Raleigh was immediately ready for it. He sent out two sailors, Philip Armadas and Arthur Barlowe, off to find a new colony. Around the summer of 1854, they discovered the Island of Roanoke and made friendly contact there with the Algonquian-speaking Indians, one of them Granganimeo, the brother of a weroance named Wingina. As the Indians grew to understand the British more, they started exchanging goods with each other. The Natives were completely amazed by the items the newcomers had brought with them and believed it held a great source of montoac. To the Natives, montoac represented a power that was far beyond any human capability and something that was mysterious, immediate, and influential [29]. They found that the newcomers’ weapons, like axes, knives, swords, and especially guns, held so much power and could do so much damage to whatever it hit [45]. The Native Americans wanted to know more about the British settlers, especially after seeing such a great source of montoac in their technology. Because of this, the weroances selected two men named Manteo and Wanchese to accompany the settlers back to their homeland [50]. The stay of Manteo and Wanchese in England lasted nine months and during their stay, they learned more about the English culture and how England was. They witnessed the culture and the great power they had and while Manteo still saw opportunity with the Englishmen, Wanchese began to see the opposite [55]. Wanchese began to see how the English behaved, how their pressure was on food supplies, and how much crime and violence they had. Wanchese began to see the Englishmen as a threat [79]. It is at this point where the relationship between the Indians and the British gradually deteriorate and where we start to see just why they could not get along. The Natives started to lose their trust for the newcomers. When Manteo and Wanchese left their island, the Algonquians saw a total eclipse of the sun. When the newcomers came back on their second trip, the Algonquians witnessed a comet appearing on their land. While these astronomical events didn't mean anything to the newcomers, it meant a whole lot for the Algonquians. Because of their beliefs and practices, the Algonquians took these celestial signs as a warning for alarming events to come and they began to doubt the British’s presence in their home [59]. Violent events that happened between the Native Americans and British settlers also adds on to why they just could not get along. For the Native Americans, especially for Wingina and the rest of the weorances in Roanoke, a world of balance was very important [24]. This, unfortunately was ruined when the settlers returned to Roanoke from England around 1586. Sir Grenville who was the leader of this return trip, was caught in a storm while heading back to the Carolina’s outer banks. The ship called Tyger, was badly damaged and left Grenville and his people food that would only last for twenty days [61]. While looking for help and possibly food, they continued to sail along the coast and came across a town called Secotan where they were welcomed with open arms, a place to spend the night, and an enormous feast [64]. The day after, Amadas complained of a cup missing and was furious of this action that the Natives had pulled on them. The weorance found this anger irrational and said that he would have the cup returned [64]. When the Natives failed on returning the cup, Amadas and his men burned the town of Secotan and spoiled their corn [65]. This was a true act of violence that truly changed the views of indians towards the newcomers. This particular story of how a head ended up on Edward Nugent’s hand shows just how “at Roanoke, the English newcomers intruded into an Indian story” [3]. Both the English and the Natives were too different cultures. The English brought their faith and their language hoping that the Natives would become just like them, but it never happened. Just because the Natives traded commodities with the English didn’t mean they wanted to be like them [71]. Even when the Natives began to pray the same way the English did, they they did not do it because they desired Christianity or wanted to be Christians. They only did it because they believed that if they praised the same gods of the English men, they would be able to survive the diseases that were now on their land [74]. These diseases were very new and very deadly to the all the Natives. The diseases struck quickly killing many Indians, in some towns about twenty, in some about forty, in some sixty, and six score in one [73]. The Natives started to see that these diseases were an English weapon and realized these were not good. English diseases killed many more Algonquians than English weapon did [103]. Though the Natives were completely impressed by settlers culture and technology, their diseases frightened them [73]. Wingina started to see that his connection with the English brought death, violence, and diseases on his land so he decided to distance himself and his people for Grenville and the rest of the settlers [92]. Around after the death of his brother, Granganimeo, from the diseases the settlers brought, Wingina changed his name to Pemisapan meaning “the one who watched things closely” [81]. Governor Ralph Lane saw this name as a sign that Pemisapan was planning something against the English colony, perhaps to kill Lane and his people [80]. All Pemisapan really wanted to do was just to lead his people out of contact from the English because he believed that the they were the source of his community’s problems [92]. Lane decided to plan an attack on Pemisipan and his people and on the way there, he and his men beheaded two indians that were in a canoe floating in the Croatan sounds [96]. Because the Natives failed to fulfill the English’s wishes of meeting with them, violence struck between the two parties. Lane decided to storm into Pemisapan’s village and attacked him and his people. Pemisapan was then shot by Amadas, headed into the woods and was later beheaded by Edward Nugent [98]. This act of violence is another act of violence that drove that Indian’s hearts away from the newcomers. This horrific scene of Pemisapan’s head on Edward Nugent’s hand, a hand that belonged to an Irish man that is not at all mentioned in History books [xiii], emphasizes why the British and Indians could not get along. The death of Pemisapan through a vicious attack and the deaths of both Granganimeo and Enesnore, two leaders that were greatly admired, left the Natives a vacant leadership, one that could not be filled through typical leadership-selecting traditions. The newcomers took away the past and the future lives of the Natives and left them nothing. The diseases that the English brought with them wiped out generations that were yet unborn [104]. This act of violence made the Natives realize that the English were violent people, people who were becoming a burden to them in many aspects. They did not want to be around them any longer. Being with the English was practically being with death. Their presence became too powerful and too dangerous and brought many consequences to the Natives [92]. It truly destroyed a world that was supposed to be built with peace and balance. Although this act violence, the beheading of Pemisapan, lives only in the town of Dasemunkepeuc, it is shared by many hearts of Natives. This crime gathered different Natives from Secotan, Aquascogoc, Pomeiooc, and Dasemunkepeuc, and together they began to share great hatred for the English [104]. The British colonists which were also known as invaders, with the violence, the diseases, and the crimes they brought with them, indeed create a new world for the Natives [104].This crime, the beheading of a greatly admired weroance, replaced philanthropy [102].