Answer:
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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