Native American Culture

I find that with the stories we have read recently, mostly with the last two stories, the Native Americans were judged extremely quickly, and this view didn't change throughout a long span of time. They were always considered savages that had no sort of sense of civilization or moral restraints, when in fact, they were more civilized then the pilgrims. The pilgrims always were fearful of them, even though the Indians brought them food so they can live and provided them shelter. They were even able to forgive the deaths of their fellow brethren to make a unneeded friendship of the pilgrims. This fascinated me that the pilgrims were so ignorant and high nosed to not have it cross their minds that the Native Americans were actually a well civilized and established people. It also continued and came up in the story of the Rainy Mountain were the natives were chased off by Americans from their ritual spot. This seams very undeserving even though calm, peaceful Natives was not always the case. Just, in these stories that we have read, the Indians play a major role as a the victims that keep on helping the problem. I think that says a lot about how their culture was and possibly still is.