Well they learned basically everything they needed to know to survive in this foreign land. The white people came from an environment that was more forgiving then they encountered in Maryland. The reason I say this is; for one they didn't know the terrain, they didn't know about agriculture, they didn't know what natural resources would be readily available, and they had no shelters they could live in. All of this was taught by the native Indian. The Indians taught the colonist how to fertilize the soil and the importance of crop rotation. They helped the colonists build houses and hunt meat. Without the natives the Maryland colony would have failed along with the rest of the colonies.
We owed the Indians a lot of which we repaid in mass murders and drove them away from their land. Was it right the way we treated the Natives? (I would like to hear everybody's ideas)