Article: In search of the savage sauvage: an exploration into North America's s political cultures.(perceptions of the native Americans by early European explorers, missionaries, and colonists)

Introduction

On his 1534 voyage to the St. Lawrence, Jacques Cartier first encountered the "Sauvage" when he saw Beothuk Indians, elusive in the distance, as his ship reached the barren coast of Labrador. He described these aboriginal inhabitants of North America as having well-formed bodies, but as "gens effarables (frightening) et sauvaiges" (the older French spelling of "sauvages") with their hair tied up on the top of their heads like a handful of twisted hay with feathers in it, and clothed in skins of animals (Cart ier, 10 I). As his journey progressed Cartier made closer and closer contact, until the French were trading with and offering food to various ...

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