Indian Perception in 1887

1. Dictionary.com defines savage as "fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed."
4.a. The website that the textbook from 1887 derives from archive.org
4.b. In class, we researched and read a school textbook from 1887. We compared the definition of savage, to how the authors of the textbook talked about indians when they referred to them as "savages." In 1887, it appears to me, that the term savages was used when the Civilized Whites wanted to term the violent indian attacks. They referred to them as natives and to the women as squaws when examining their culture.(4.c.) If I read this in 1887 as a student, I believe that my thoughts on Indians would lean towards a violent suppressive society of uneducated barbaric people roaming the Western part of the United States.