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The arrival of Europeans can truly mark the end of one people's way of life as the Natives are forced to conform to this foreign model of religion and social structure demonstrated through changing gender roles.  Although, the view of these early encounters is primarily, and unfortunately, exclusively from the white male perspective it is clear from ''The First Ship'' reading that both parties view of each other was completely alien.  As told my Mary Rowlandson and Mary Jemison, it is evident that even that these two women did not have the same outlook on their capturers, the social structure that they were forced into was foreign and unlike anything they had ever known.  These contrasts, in ways of life sharply decline, as seen in the story of Sarah Ahhaton were she was severely punished and made to feel remorseful for her adulterous actions.  Actions that some fifty years early would have "incur no ill repute or insult" according to Champlain. It is clear that when Europeans arrived in America they encountered a people whose female members shared a mutual respect with male members, maintaining positions of power in both the public and private world.  A power that was not understood by European standards of society and that were quickly eroded to fit an imposing mold.