FIRST CONTACT:

White Perceptions of the Indian "Other"

I.          Race and Republican Ideology

A.  Republican Virtue

B.  White American perceptions of Indians

II.        Social Construction of the Other

A.  The British in Ireland
                    1.  "Nature" vs. "nurture"

III.       English Perceptions of Native Americans

A.  Virginia

1.  Cultural Differences
                        2.  Land-use
                        3.  Powhatan Confederacy
                        4.  Indian Genocide
                        5.  Savagery as Cultural

B.  Puritans in New England

1.  Savagery racialized
                        2.  Competition for land
                        3.  Puritan Self-perceptions
                        4.  Indian Genocide

IV.       Construction of the "Noble Savage"

A.  Racial Construction by location

B.  Thomas Jefferson

V.        Conclusion