This idea that Indians are "uncivilized" comes from many different things, from the fact that their culture and lifestyle did not coincide with Western values and the idea of “noble savage,” especially the “savage”” part. In the video one of the Brooklyn residents said that people “thought that [the Indians] were scalpers and not very nice people,” which helps show that the Indians they were seen as less moral and were not seen as having a set of rules like most “civilized” societies (To Brooklyn and Back). The fact that Native Americans helped build steel buildings in an urban area negates the idea that Native Americans are less “civilized” because they help build something that Western culture approves of and sees as something highly
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