sentences:  If this integration was successful, the assimilated colonists would gradually exhaust their European supplies (ammunition, clothing) and discard European culture (language, style of dress, agriculture) as Algonquian lifestyle became more convenient.Colonial era Europeans observed that people removed from European society by Native Americans—even if captured or enslaved—were reluctant to return; the reverse was seldom true.Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that, at some point, the assimilated colonists or their descendants would resist efforts at recovery.