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Were the European colonizers more civilized than the native Americans?

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In British America, there was no greater sense of Otherness

than between Europeans and Native Americans. Both Indians

and Africans represented the "other" to white colonists, but the

Indians held one card denied to the enslaved Africans—

autonomy. As sovereign entities, the Indian nations and the

European colonies (and countries) often dealt as peers. In

trade, war, land deals, and treaty negotiations, Indians held

power and used it. As late as 1755, an English trader asserted

that "the prosperity of our Colonies on the Continent will stand

or fall with our Interest and favour among them."1

Here we canvas the many descriptions of Indians by white

colonists and Europeans, and sample the sparse but telling

record of the Native American perspective on Europeans and

their culture in pre-revolutionary eighteenth-century British

America. All come to us, of course, through the white man's eye,

ear, and pen. Were it not for white missionaries, explorers, and

frontier negotiators (the go-betweens known as "wood's men"),

we would have a much sparser record of t

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