Indians in School Textbook Research

Savage is defined as a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized and savagery is defined as the quality of being fierce or cruel. Today I used a textbook archive to search about the findings of Indians in the New World and what the settlers thought about them. But also before the time of coming to the New World the Vikings, or the Northmen, first came to calling the Indians, savages. I understood that once the Englishmen were starting to get killed by Indians the name "savages" came up. This then started the conflict of the English and Indians and the uprising of the name. The word savages started to pop up in the text when the story of Captain Smith came up. As a student reading the text, I would shape they way Native Americans are viewed in a bad way because they were named since the beginning savages. Which is a cruel way of putting it, because every person in the world is a human being and nobody should be treated the way the English treated the Indians. Just like Savagery is defined as a quality of being fierce or cruel, cruel is the main influence on innocent people.

Savagery