Savagery among Settlers

Throughout history civilizations have considered themselves superior to others and deemed certain civilizations as savages. These savages were often given this label due to a difference in cultures such as religion, how they dressed, or what weapons they carried. England did this with their neighbors the Irish mainly because of their lack of religion. Europe did the same thing in America when they decided the native who lived there where savage and unworthy of living with them. They stole the native’s children and tried to convert them to Christianity and tortured them in various ways. Shakespeare predated this in his play The Tempest he depicts the savage as dark skinned and with freckled showing the radicalization of savagery.
When describing savages the white settlers falsely labeled them with many stereotypes. The Indians were far from what these settlers called savage and in fact demonstrated many of the very characteristics the natives were accused of. Even Columbus, who murdered and took many natives as slaves, described them as kind people who loved their neighbors. When the settlers were experiencing a harsh winter and were starving from the cold local Indians delivered food to the colony and in doing so kept them alive. Meanwhile the settlers were digging up graves to eat the flesh of fellow settlers and murdering family members and children to provide food for them. They then replayed the native by attacking their villages in order to steal their food. When the white settlers described the natives they depicted them as savages who were ruthless cannibals. In reality the cannibals were the white settlers who demonstrated actions far more savage like behavior than the kind natives.
Soon the cultural differences took a toll on the far more primitive natives whose bow and arrows were no matches for the gun power of the settlers. The settlers began to attempt to convert the Indians to Christianity by any means necessary. A war was aged on this civilization nod the white settlers, though in a new land, clearly had the upper hand. They raided villages destroying homes and killing all men, women, and children that stand in their way. That, however, wasn’t enough for the vicious settlers. They also tricked the Indians through trades and treaties. On one occasion a white settler lead others into a village to purpose a peace treaty between the two civilizations. Upon completion of the treaty he had the Indians toast to the occasion but the wine in their glasses were poisoned and the settlers viciously murdered the villagers who were not killed by the poison.
To call these natives savages is inaccurate and wrong. The cultural differences between the two civilizations should be respected and acknowledge which would allow these civilizations to learn from each other. Instead one civilization decided to take over the other by marking them as ruthless savages. In reality it was the “civilized” settlers who acted ruthless and deserved to be labeled as savage. The natives provided the settlers of food when they needed it sacrificing food during a harsh winter. One of the biggest problems the settlers had with these natives was their lack of Christianity. Though this civilization didn’t follow Christ they lived with love for their neighbors, a commandment for Christians to follow, while the settlers attacked their neighbors