19th Century Textbook

https://archive.org/stream/conciseschoolhis02camp#page/n21/mode/2up 

For this activity I am using a 19th century textbook (link above) to discover how kids during that time learned about colonists first interactions with Indians. They were seen as "savages" and this was a term used mostly when the book wanted to discuss Indians in a negative light.

If I were a student being taught material from this textbook, I wouldn't have a very positive view on Indians, nor would I appreciate their way of life. The observations written in the book seem to have a skewed point of view, as though written from the point of view of a white individual or group of white individuals who wish to teach kids in this time to be frightened of  or even hostile toward Indians. I believe that of this way of writing could be due to what was going on in the 19th century in the west with Indians.