Compare and contrast the settlers' relations with Indians in early Virginia and New England

In both areas, relationships with the Indians started out
well enough but soon became disastrous because of abuses by the Europeans. In Virginia,
the Indians showed the colonists how to plant corn and traded with them for hatchets,
guns, etc. Things changed during the "starving time" when John Smith was forced to
return to England. When their own food supplies ran out, the colonists stole Indian food
supplies and destroyed that which they could not steal. One colonist claimed to have
captured an Indian queen and several children, forced them to march to the river where
he forced the children into the river and then shot them to death. The marriage between
John Rolfe and Pocahontas was only to prevent an imminent Indian massacre after
colonists stole Indian corn and kidnapped Pocahontas. When more land was needed to plant
tobacco, the colonists simply stole it. When the Indians resisted, they claimed the
entire resulting war was all the Indians fault:

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That all men may see the impartial ingenuity of
this discourse, we freely confess, that the country is not so good, as the natives are
bad, whose barbarous selves need more cultivation than the ground itself, being more
overspread with incivility and treachery, than that with briars. For the land, being
tilled and used well by us, deceive not our expectation but rather exceeded it far,
being so thankful as to return a hundred for one. But the savage, though never a notion
used so kindly upon so small desert, have instead of that harvest which our pains
merited, returned nothing nut briars and thorns, pricking even to death many of their
benefactors. Yet doubt we not, but that as all wickedness is crafty to undo itself, so
these also have more wounded themselves than us, God Almighty making way for severity
there, where a fair gentleness would not take
place.

In New England, the
Indians were originally helpful in showing the colonists how to plant corn; but the
colonists persisted in stealing land the Indians had already cleared and keeping for
themselves. When the Indians resisted, they also blamed the Indians. In the Pequot War,
resulting from unfair treatment of the Indians, the colonists said God punished the
Indians by allowing them to be slaughtered wholesale:

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And indeed such a dreadful Terror did the
Almighty let fall upon their Spirits, that they would fly from us and run into the very
Flames, where many of them perished. And when the Fort was thoroughly Fired, Command was
given, that all should fall off and surround the Fort; which was readily attended by
all; only one Arthur Smith being so wounded that he could not move out of the Place, who
was happily espied by Lieutenant Bull, and by him rescued. The Fire was kindled on the
North East Side to windward; which did swiftly over-run the Fort, to the extream
Amazement of the Enemy, and great Rejoycing of our selves. Some of them climbing to the
Top of the Palisade; others of them running into the very Flames; many of them gathering
to windward, lay pelting at us with their Arrows; and we repayed them with our small
shot