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Native American Barbarians

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By 1650, thirty years after the pilgrims arrived in America, they seemed to have no regard for the natives and thought they were unfriendly and in-fact lesser people than they themselves who were always looking to shoot arrows at the pilgrims. William Bradford even referred to them as “these savage barbarians” and intimated that the natives were “wild men” just like the “wild beasts” that occupied the “hideous & desolate wilderness” to which he gave the Lord credit for redeeming them from their oppressors the natives

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