Yep, nice to know you are able to read the same documentation that I've been teaching...and my same statement still applies!!! The documentation is exerts from White Men who were staging/making plays/providing a biased opinion about the 'RED WARRIOR'...but nice try!
From the first link..
http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/native/savage/index.html
The Development of Two
Savage Stereotypes : 1665-1860 I was wrong, it was more than 100 years
Two polar opposite stereotypes developed: the
noble savage (peaceful, spiritual, mystic guardian of the land who exists in harmony with nature and was the original conservationist), and the
ignoble savage (a marauding untamable murderer; a hellish demon who scalped women and children. Once conquered, he was depicted as a thief, a drunkard, and a beggar, unwilling to work but willing to accept government handouts).
The noble savage stereotype developed first in Europe. It first appeared in the United States in areas where "the Indian problem" had been solved. It's important to understand that as manifest destiny swept westward, it was possible for Indians to become picturesque and quaint in areas where they were either vanquished or powerless; i.e., no longer a threat. In recent times
the ignoble savage caricature has been most prevalent when Indians reclaim their rights, such as spear fishing rights in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan, or as they've started to gain economic and political power through casino revenue. It seems that White Americans today become exceptionally angry at Indians who do not fit the romanticized noble savage mold and so recast them ignobly.
Both stereotypes depict the Indian as childlike and
primitive, and always the "Other," distinct from any other race.
The ignoble savage came first, created by the Puritan distrust of the wilderness and the precarious position they found themselves in during the early colonial experience. The Pilgrims wintered aboard the Mayflower after their arrival in New England in 1620. William Bradford wrote in Of Plymouth Plantation, "Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts
and wild men
The creation of the
noble savage stereotype was influenced by the advent of Romanticism and its influence on the first generation of American writers, especially Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. Irving, in his essay "The Traits of Indian Character" (1819-1820), firmly placed "Indianness" within the environmental "scenery" in which the Indian lived. By Romanticizing and glorying the wilderness that had created the
noble savage, a wilderness that was quickly disappearing, he was also criticizing the first European colonists
Another site confiming what I said
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage
Sorry Saxon, your thread got hijacked