Compared to Mary, Chumash women were forced to weave blankets or clean laundry all day. In the evening, Spanish soldiers entered the women's dormitories and offered food for prostitution. For those who could not bear the harsh standard of living, some ran away. These men and women risk their lives because crossing the unforgiving environment and terrain was not an easy task. A key point to remember is that Mary was considered a hostage while the Chumash were a free people. One would imagine that the Mary and the Chumash would have had to exchange positions to match their description, but the Indians consistently demonstrated this camaraderie. The natives greet everyone with the same respect they have for each other. Their hostages have better meals than those of the free people of Chumash. So it seems that life would have been joyous without the growing hostilities between the two camps. Jamestown was also saved by the Indians. Their town would have been destroyed without the kindness of the natives towards the settlers. Then there are the people of Jamestown who were desperate enough to engage in cannibalism and resort to savage-like methods to survive. Although it is possible that some Indians also resorted to cannibalism in desperate circumstances, the Indians did not move into claimed territories or take advantage of others. The Puritans, on the other hand, had good intentions from the start and opened their arms to the Indians on the first Thanksgiving. Tensions, however, began to rise as the Indians began to become more aggressive and both sides began to attack each other. Eventually this came to a head and caused the Pequot War where the Pequot tribe was wiped out and scattered. The story behind this war was the ignorance of the colonists. They