True or false?

Lyrics to 'colo(u)rs of the wind'.


These are lyrics which can describe the 'feelings' which natives to many lands can have to European and other expeditioners which left their Country in pursuits of finding new ones. The 'discoverers', so to say.

Many natives feel that their, the discoverers', journeys into new lands in the early centuries was done with coldness and with an attitude of not caring for human life but as it were only for their own purposes. The discoverers' supposedly brutal murderings and rapes also is kept in mind to natives to their cruelty when landing upon new lands.

I, however, only have read accounts of certain 'rapes' or 'murders'. I cannot say with certainty that rape and murder was actually a part of the 'discoverers' ways when landing on 'new' lands.

The way the 'accounts' are portrayed is as such:

The discoverers' enter and try to make peace.
They do what they want.
When they don't receive what they want, they use physical force.
When they do receive what they want, they still use physical force.
They begin seeking to 'own' the land they landed on and use physical force to do so.


I'm not sure if these were the ways they did. I can neither say these ways were done nor can I say that these ways were not done.

But historians usually portray the picture as such. Historians of and to the 'natives'' own lands and tongues which have recorded these accounts.