Differences Between Savages And Native American

As children we 've seen Disney movies such as Pocahontas which is based on Europeans coming to America looking for gold in a land already inhabited by Native Americans. Conflict automatically arises between the two groups seen in one scene where both are singing “Savages” about the other group in which the Indians are referred to as “heathens” and the European’s as “pale faced demons”. Though towards the end their conflicts are settled and the Natives are left to live in peace. Which completely contradicts what goes on in an Interview Between Derrick Jensen and Ward Churchill. In the interview genocide is not only defined as killing members of the group but also causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, and lastly forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. When Europeans first settled in America they brought along with them many diseases in which the Native Americas stood no chance against. At first it wasn 't intentional but once they decided that they wanted the lands to themselves the …show more content…
Reformers convinced the leaders of Congress that with proper education and treatment Indians could become just like other citizens molding them into dedicated members of society. At the time they believed that assimilation and off-reservation boarding schools was a more productive and suitable tactic than extermination The first boarding school to try an accomplish this goal was Carlisle Indian School founded by Captain Richard Henry Pratt. Believing that Indian ways were inferior to those of whites, he decided to take it upon himself and apply the principle "kill the Indian and save the man." into every