Europeans changed the homeland of the Indians, which they renamed New England. In Changes in the Land, Cronon explains all the different aspects of how Europeans changed the land. Changing the culture and organization of life of the Indians, the land itself, including the plants and animals of the region. Cronon states, "The transition from Indian to European rule in New England involved major changes well known to historians in the way these peoples organized their lives, but it also involved fundamental reorganizations less known to historians in the plant and animal communities of the region". (Cronon, XV). New England has gone through human development, environmental and ecological change by Europeans. Cronon raises the question of whether or not to believe in Indian rights to the land. The Europeans believed that the way the Indians used the land was unacceptable since the Indians wasted the land's natural resources. However, the Indians did not waste the natural resources and wealth of the land, but used them differently, which the Europeans failed to see. The political and economic life of the Indians needed to be known to understand the use of land, “personal possessions could be replaced, and their accumulation made little sense for ecological reasons of mobility” (Cronon, 62). Indians and Europeans use land differently but they also define ownership differently. The Indian woman defined and claimed the land as her own based on the crops planted and the rest of the land could be free to be improved. Europeans believed that “To define property is therefore to represent boundaries between people; equally, it means articulating at least a set of conscious boundaries between… middle of paper… style in which they used only what they needed to survive. The different lifestyles determined the different environmental uses of the territory. Although, however, the culture encouraged trade. Europeans and Indians made alliances from the trading market, which changed the Indian way of life. The Indians now had prices for items that had never had a price before. Market trading would become detrimental to the Indians' way of life, which the Indians were unaware of. When Europeans arrived in New England they not only changed the environment of the land, plants, and animals, but they also changed the lifestyle of the Indians already living there. Europeans transformed New England into a form of global capitalist economy, changing New England forever. Works Cited Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Settlers, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. Print.