[…] the chiefs came to a determination, that Jewitt should be married (they knew better than to think of savagizing Thompson) […]
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Savagize
Synonyms for "savagize"
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But there are many tribes of Indians and islanders more expert with their canoes — as for example the Alaskans and the Kanakas — than any European, however savagized by forest life.
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This conceptual change allowed the Indian as tractable heathen to be rather rapidly replaced by the Indian as uncivilizable savage. When, therefore, nineteenth-century white historical writers wished to elegize or savagize the Indian, it was comparatively easy for them and their audience to assume that Mohicans, Pequots, and even Wampanoags no longer existed.
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