Phillip Deloria

One thing I took in from the this handout was D.H. Lawrence's opinions about Native Americans. He believed that white Americans needed to either destroy the Indians or to assimilate them into a white American world. Americans wanted to feel that the continent was completely theirs but they knew only the Indians could teach them the ways of the land. But even in spite of this, Lawrence believed the Americans basically had to destroy the Indians for total control of the continent's landscapes. What I took away from the Boston Tea Party was the Indian disguises were used not neccessarly as a way of maintaining secrecy as it was to cast blame on a third party. Of course it was all a way of poking fun at the British by depicting a picture of Mohawk Indians that traveled hundreds of miles to dump Boston's tea into the harbour. The noble savagery that is reffered to in the handout in my opinion is talking about how whites admired the Indians because of their way with dealing with their land from a spiritual standpoint. But at the same time the Americans needed that land so they could call the whole continent home