1800s Textbook

I used this textbook archive

Savage-  (of an animal or force of nature) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled.
Savagery-  the quality of being fierce or cruel.
In this blog I am looking at a textbook from the 1800s, and I am looking at how they depicted the Indians.
  
 If I was a student and I read these textbooks, I would have a pretty bad opinions about Indians, one of the words that the author uses to talk about the Indians is "savages." Calling someone a savage is like calling someone a wild animal. The only times that Indians are even mentioned are when they have caused conflict, there is only things said about them that would help you develop a bad opinion about Indians. It seems like the only reason they are calling them savages is so they can be easily separated from the white people that they talk about. If I was a student in the 1800s reading this, there would be no other opinion but a bad opinion that I could develop about Indians.