James W. Loewen: Chapter Analysis

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In this chapter of the book James W. Loewen talks about how the Native American's history has been misunderstood because of the how the textbook company has either disregarded it or it just went off of popular myths. Loewen's major concern is how their civilization, how syncretism played in Native peoples, and how the Europeans culturally imperialized them into European culture. Firstly the Native peoples in America had very civilized life just not how we as Europeans see it. Many of the tribes had a government that consisted of chiefs and elders. However ever the Europeans thought that they were savage peoples who lived a very primitive life style, but the people's living here came up with languages that differ as much as European's languages