To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

Dee Brown
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As they moved westward, settlers in the New England colonies began to speak of the Indians as “savages” who were “at war with nature.” The word “savage” had long been associated with the least civilized of peoples. The English explorer John Smith had used it in 1580 to describe the native people of North America, and it had appeared in print again in 1612. A few years later, Cotton Mather used it to refer to the Indian tribes that lived south of New England.

Source: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History Of The American West

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