Native American Settlers Summary

The English settlers developed a selection of stereotypes against the Native Americans, ranking them as uncivilized and thus making it easier on themselves to lead the culture into their impossible situation, where the Natives have no choice but to either fight and lose or sit and do nothing, however if assimilation could have occurred through education or social structure the final outcome could have been mutually just for the two civilizations. The early European influences, or prejudices directly linked themselves to the final outcome of the cultural elimination of the Native Americans. The English settlers called the Natives "Savages" and labeled them as uncivilized. Several times John Smith, in his works calls the Natives evil and compares them to the devil with their so-called occult like behavior. These prejudices just allowed for more hate and greed to develop in the English settlers. Even in Crevicure, the author clearly labels the European settlers as the Americans and not even putting into mind the Blackfeet and other Natives who had lived on the land for thousands of years. This ignorance to acknowledge another culture other than their own just shows how easily the prejudice dipictions made it for them to kick the other civilization right out of the picture, making them basically obsolete. The prejudices and stereotypes of the settlers led the Blackfeet and others to a bad point in their history; in this impossible
However the concept of formal education could have been easily accepted by the natives. The Europeans already taught their children informal education and over time adapted a formal education. Why couldn't the Native Amercians have done the same thing? Nothing in their beliefs says a formal process of learning was against their ways. This could have paired the two different cultures of children together to learn the same teachings and eventually lead toward cultural assimilation very easily and even perhaps more