The Savage Indians

Our assignment is to read from this archive on how people referenced the Indians as savages. According to Google, the definition of savage is a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized. The definition of savagery is the condition of being primitive or uncivilized.
If I were a student reading this archive as part of my school work, it would make me think of the Native Americans almost as animals. It would also influence me, and other readers, to think that I was better than the Indians. The text displays the Indians as uncivilized and uneducated. By referring to them as savages, they completely dehumanize them and make them seem like a foreign creature.

The Savage Indian