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Native americans nobel or savage

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Native Americans Noble or Savage Native Americans were considered savage in the 18th century by most white settles, who with there technology considered themselves superior and civilised compared to the seemingly wild and unorganized Native Americans. In this essay I am going to put forward the suggestion that they were noble, due to their respect for nature and their effective use of raw materials. However they could also be considered savage due to their rituals such as the sun dance and battle conduct such as scalping. Due to there nomadic lifestyles and respect for nature they did not believe that a person who was not higher than an animal could own land, so the white settlers view of this was that the Native American most be uncivilised if they didn't even believe themselves to be higher than a slug, the native Americans believed the white settlers to be the barbaric...

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