The "WE" at the end of D.E.W.

At the end of the period we have called D.E.W. (Discovery; Encounter; Witness), the "WE" seems to have started to form.  People have started to identify themselves as colonists or people of the land they have colonized.  It's not too major of a view yet, but it is beginning.  Based on the writings that we read, the "WE" seems to be the Puritans or the Christians who live in the colonies.  But, if you go more into it, it seems to be the white people who came to the colonies or whose families came to the colonies and work together.