Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America
Remarks concerning the Savages of North America
Benjamin Franklin''s argument was explaining the difference in lifestyles of the Indians and the Americans. Why should they be called savages just because their lifestyle is different than ours. The Indians have no police or anyone to rule the disobedience of their community nor anyone to punish them. The Indian men are the backbone of their culture they are hunters and warriors and the women are there solely to take care of the children and nourish the lands why did the Six Nations believe that there was room for improvement in their community, they wanted to instill some of their values to the Indians.
In 1744 at the Treaty of Lancaster the Six Nations thought it would be a good idea to make an proposal to the Indians in asking them to send some of their young men to a college in Virginia so they could teach them the lifestyle that they knew. Meanwhile the Indians have their own set of rules they did not respond immediately for it is their culture not to respond until the next day or they would seem rude. But they did not think that it would be a wise decision to send their men to Virginia because the white mans values were a lot different than there''s .They had some past experiences with the white man that the oppositions were not strong. The Indians felt the white man had no moral values when it came to either living in the wilderness or building cabins in other words knowing how to survive outside, or either be counselors to the young. They never wrote down rules and regulations they where all from words and rules embedded in their heads. The Indians even offered to take some of their men and teach them everything they know as well as educate them; they politely said they would make men out of them. The savages were very polite when holding conversations, they once told a story about two of their hunters whom had killed a deer and once they started to broil it a figure came from the sky with their hand
Benjamin Franklin''s argument was explaining the difference in lifestyles of the Indians and the Americans. Why should they be called savages just because their lifestyle is different than ours. The Indians have no police or anyone to rule the disobedience of their community nor anyone to punish them. The Indian men are the backbone of their culture they are hunters and warriors and the women are there solely to take care of the children and nourish the lands why did the Six Nations believe that there was room for improvement in their community, they wanted to instill some of their values to the Indians.
In 1744 at the Treaty of Lancaster the Six Nations thought it would be a good idea to make an proposal to the Indians in asking them to send some of their young men to a college in Virginia so they could teach them the lifestyle that they knew. Meanwhile the Indians have their own set of rules they did not respond immediately for it is their culture not to respond until the next day or they would seem rude. But they did not think that it would be a wise decision to send their men to Virginia because the white mans values were a lot different than there''s .They had some past experiences with the white man that the oppositions were not strong. The Indians felt the white man had no moral values when it came to either living in the wilderness or building cabins in other words knowing how to survive outside, or either be counselors to the young. They never wrote down rules and regulations they where all from words and rules embedded in their heads. The Indians even offered to take some of their men and teach them everything they know as well as educate them; they politely said they would make men out of them. The savages were very polite when holding conversations, they once told a story about two of their hunters whom had killed a deer and once they started to broil it a figure came from the sky with their hand