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In this article, Columbus Meets Pocahontas in the American South, Theda Perdue, shows how Europeans viewed the Native women. Perdue also compares the way the Native women were treated by the European men. Perdue starts off by explaining both Columbus and John Smiths encounters with the Natives. Perdue feels that John Smith is viewed in a more positive light then Christopher Columbus because John Smith was friendly and calm were as Columbus’s crew was violent and aggressive. Columbus left a third of his crew on Hispaniola. When he returned he found all his men dead. His crew was killed by the local caciques. They were killed because they had no respect for the Native women. Columbus’s crew violently beat the women, raped them, and used them however they wanted. When John Smith encountered the Natives he didn’t receive any resistance from the Native women. They practically threw themselves at him and his crew. They walked around naked and danced passionately in front of him. The Nat