Savage

     Today in class we read a few pages from an old history textbook. In the few pages we read, I learned about traditions, lifestyles, and appearance of Indians. We were also told to look up the definition of the words savage and savages, and according to Google  save means "(of an animal or force of nature) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled". The word savagery means "the quality of being fierce or cruel" (Google). We then searched the word 'savages' and 'savagery' in the archived textbook and read some excerpts from other parts of the textbook that used those words. These words are mostly used when describing/ talking about Indians. For example "the whites were against the savages" (p.192). If I was an american student reading this text as part of my schoolwork, I would think that Native Americans were vicious people, and that were barely human.