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In Loewens writing of red eyes it talks about the negative image that is incorporated with Native Americans. This writing talks about how in the standard textbook that may be viewed by many young students from elementary to high school there is generally a false conception of native Americans. Loewen even says "one does not start from point zero, but from minus ten." This quote means that many children are seeing the negative view of Native Americans, seeing them as one dement ional primitives. This piece also shows that since many children have this view as native Americans as being involved in savage war fare this creates a little bit of ethnocentric feeling seeing as the textbooks have the Europeans as having to fight the Indians for land. Loewen views this as unfair due to the fact that many people skip out on the fact that Native Americans were very settled and had their own society built and developed before foreigners landed on the wrong continent. This writing also continues to show the fact that Americans only see certain parts of history that glorify are beliefs. Many of these textbooks don’t show this pre distinguished view of Native Americans and their society only the war fare with Americans who came to their land.
My personal reflection on this writing is that I can see the bias opinions that are often linked to textbooks. I remember going back to my early childhood days the idea of Native Americans being seen as more of brutal warriors who were willing to fight. This was re-enforced through text and other examples.