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2. Today we looked at a history textbook from 1887, and read a selection of pages talking about Native Americans during the 1600s. We did this to see what conclusions someone in school might have drawn from these textbooks in the late 1800s, and how it might have shaped their views of Native Americans.
3. If I were a student reading this textbook in the late 1800s I think this textbook would definitely have changed my view of Native Americans. The textbook calls them vengeful and states that they considered war to be "the most honorable employment," and that, "the one who could show the greatest number of scalps, torn from his foes, was considered the bravest warrior." These quotes make it seem like the Native Americans were warmongers, when in reality they were no more aggressive than the Europeans who colonized their land. The textbook even goes as far as to use the word "savage" interchangeably with Indian as if the terms are synonymous with each other dehumanizing them. So it would probably give me a bad impression about Native Americans.
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