Some Native American adopted a sedentary lifestyle because they found that farming was an easier and more certain way of getting food than was hunting and gathering alone.
Others adopted that lifestyle because they were forced to after being militarily defeated by the invading Europeans.
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The Native Americans were subjected to many foreign diseases and were also forced out of their native land. Their population also decreased due to European enslavement. British settlers purchased and captured Native Americans to use as forced labour in making tobacco, rice and indigo.
The pope required that the Spanish monarchs make the conversion of native people to Christianity a priority during colonization.