| Initial European perceptions of Native
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| | viewed as inherently different in regards
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| Americans viewed them as uncivilized
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| | to color until the mid-eighteenth century
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| savages who, with time and effort, could
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| | and the label "red" was not used until
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| be educated and assimilated into European
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| | the mid-nineteenth century. Some causes
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| culture. Christopher Columbus reported
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| | of the changing perception were an
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| his opinion of the Indians in the
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| | increase of Europeans, bloody conflicts
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| following manner:They should be good
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| | and atrocities, codification of laws
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| servants and of quick intelligence, since
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| | designed to control Native peoples, and
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| I see that they very soon say all that is
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| | the view of Europeans began to unify as
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| said to them, and I believe that they
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| | being "white."The changing perception of
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| would easily be made Christians, for it
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| | Indians also caused a change in how
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| appears to me that they had no creed. Our
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| | Europeans dealt with them. In the
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| Lord willing, at the time of my
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| | beginning, Europeans intermarried with
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| departure, I will bring back six of them
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| | them, and used teachers and missionaries
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| to your Highness, that they may learn to
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| | to convert them to European culture and
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| talk (Hurtado 46).This passage shows that
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| | religion. Later, education ceased and
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| Columbus believed the Indians intelligent
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| | Europeans moved to subjugate the Indians
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| and would be easily converted to European
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| | through displacement on reservations and
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| ways, but did not think them equal to
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| | by war/genocide.The Dawes Act of 1877
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| Europeans. Columbus demonstrates his
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| | reverted back to assimilation of the
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| ethnocentricity by disregarding Native
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| | Indians through education and the
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| American religious beliefs, and by
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| | practice of farming. The reservation
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| assuming that because they did not speak
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| | lands were divided up into individual
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| a European language they could not
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| | sections for private ownership. Also the
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| "talk."Europeans viewed the Indians as
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| | federal government came to believe that
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| having inferior cultural practices such
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| | educating the Indian children would be
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| as their laws, government, economics,
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| | the quickest and most effective manner to
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| mode of living, religion, property
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| | destroy Indian lifestyles. Boarding
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| ownership, and education/writing.
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| | schools were established for Indian
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| However, the Europeans believed that
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| | children to teach them American values
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| these cultural traits of the Native
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| | and customs, while eroding their Native
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| Americans could with little difficulty be
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| | American beliefs.At first contact,
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| changed to resemble European cultures. In
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| | Europeans believed Indians could be
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| 1620, the first college for Native
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| | assimilated into European culture. Then
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| Americans was established to educate
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| | they shifted to the removal and
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| Indians in European ways, and in 1640,
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| | reservation policy. In the late 1800s,
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| Harvard opened a college for Indians.
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| | Americans returned to assimilationist
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| This proves that the main objective of
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| | policies, and in the 20th century Indians
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| the Europeans was to assimilate the
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| | have struggled to resist total
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| Native Americans into European culture by
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| | assimilation by striving to maintain
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| way of education. Europeans justified
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| | their cultural and religious
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| their conquest of the Indians because
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| | beliefs.BibliographyHurtado, Albert,
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| they believed they had a divine purpose
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| | Peter Iverson, and Thomas Paterson,
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| to convert them to Christianity. Also
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| | editors. Major Problems in American
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| Europeans believed they could "redeem the
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| | Indian History: Documents and Essays.
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| savages" in much the same way the Roman
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| | Houghton Mifflin Company Collegiate
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| Empire had conquered and civilized the
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| | Division, 2000.
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| rest of Europe.Indians did not come to be
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