Well, if a small handful of cryptic old accounts or legends are to be believed, so called “first encounters” in the Americas did not lead to violence in all cases. There is a brief mention in the logs of Columbus, about an exploring party he sent out on one his first landings. These men wandered inland awhile in search of game and fresh water, when they encountered a group of tall white men, dressed in blue, who made threatening gestures toward them, and scared them badly enough that they returned to the landing site and refused to return. The local indigenous people made no mention of these people, at least that was recorded. So if these guys ever really existed, they must have had have had good realtions with the natives. There is a similar account in Norse Sagas, from about 500 years earlier and much farther to the north, possibly the east coast of what is now Canada or the New England area of the U.S. An exploring party of adventurous Norsemen, probably from Lief Ericsons group, reported that indigenous people whom they called the Scraelings, had indicated to them that other pale complexioned men were living to west. According to Norse reports, these people wore robes, walked in “lines” or processions, and always carried a “big stick” in front of them. Possibly Irish monks or clerics who had somehow beat the Norse across the Atlantic? No reports from the natives in the Saga of any conflict with these people, whomever they may have been. Unlike the Norse experience, which quicky went south with conflict, forcing them to abandon thier southern settlements. Interesting stuff. And where there is smoke there is fire. I think these reports have a basis on truth..as opposed to writing them off as wild stories made up by people who surely had more important business on a strange new continent than to sit around, scratch their butts, and dream up wild stories…