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Remarks Concerning The Savages Of North America Summary
How come equality is still a factor in 2016? In the story, “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America,” there were a lot of differences and very few similarities within the Native Americans and the White Men. The differences and similarities with how White Men and Native Americans treated each other and their perceptions on life were horrible. Whites felt like their esteem was slavish and base and that the Indians were frivolous and useless.
Indians didn’t have no force, no prisons, and no officers to compel obedience. The Whites felt like the Indians didn’t have any guidance. Indian women made their food, nurse, and raised the children. It was stated in the story, “If we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality, we should find no people so rude, as to be without any rules of politeness; nor any so polite, as not to have some remains of rudeness.” That’s where the differences took
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The Commissioners knew that different nations have different conceptions of things. They felt like their education at Williamsburg College would educate the Indian youth. Commissioners think that the Whites will teach the Indian youth everything they need to learn in life. However the Indians felt like the education that’s being taught to them are useless and won’t teach the youth how to be Warriors. Indians wanted their young boys to become men, to learn how to cut wood, and build cabins. Another reason why they declined the offer was because they’ve already experienced a group of their youth going to that college. The youth came back not being able to bear the cold or hunger, they weren’t speaking their language properly nor did they know how to build things. The Indians felt like the education they were receiving wasn’t preparing them for the real

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