https://archive.org/stream/conciseschoolhis02camp#page/n29/mode/2up
Savage is cruel and vicious; aggressively hostile. Savagery is the quality of being fierce or cruel.
Today I looked at an old textbook and read what it had to say about indians. Then I searched for what it had to say when I typed in the word savage. I also looked up the definition for savage and savagery.
If I was a student reading this textbook, it would shape my view of the Indians in a negative way. This is because the way they talk about them using the word savage and talking about all of the conflict that they caused and the warfare. It would call it "savage warfare" and "savage chieftain". It also talked about the savages killing and capturing people. All just awful things. So if this is what I read to get a view of the Indians it would be very negative because it sounds like all they do is cause trouble. It talked about how people would go to the Indians and force them to supply things for them such as corn so this also shows that people were just using the Indians. However when they described what the Indians looked like at first it talked about them in a positive way. It said they were very revengeful and it said they thought war was the most honorable employment. It said they would also burn prisoners and torture them even more. Once again all negative things about the Indians.
No comments:
Post a Comment