Many American Whites have a romantic notions about Indians, that they were noble warriors. I believe that's mostly just a fantasy. The reality is that they were horse-thieves, rapists, and merciless savages. Many tribes even engaged in torture of captured enemies, for pleasure's sake.  Let me ask you this, hypothetically. If you were part something other than Indian, for instance Zulu, or a descendant of Genghis Khan, or of a Maccabee, would you still be proud of that heritage? You're lucky I am not working tomorrow and am an insomniac because I'm still here to reply:D If instead of a touch of indian I was some other variety of non white....you are right, I wouldn't deny it, it's not right to live a lie. But I doubt I'd be proud of it, for instance if I was to find out I was 10% jewish or black I would probably seriously consider suicide :cool: Well...I don't even know what the hell a maccabee is first of all, I should look that up lol. Descendant of Genghis Khan? Well I don't know about being proud of it but that sure would be quite interesting I must admit. I get what you're saying, most whites would be ashamed and embarassed of being a small percentage non white, unless it's indian most seem to have that romantic dances with wolves type notion and view it in a different way. There's no doubt in my mind that alot of the indians were complete savages, probably most of them. But I think there were certain tribes that weren't quite as bad. Groups like the Chippewa, Cherokee, Seminole, maybe Sioux seem to have been relatively more compatible with Euros, coincidentally those are the groups who whites most often mixed with. Groups like the Navajo, Apache, Blackfeet, things like that were the type I would expect to scalp little girls for fun. And once you get down south of the border, it's complete blood thirsty barbarity with groups like the Aztecs and Maya.     I've never exactly subscribed to the view of noble savage , I do believe that many if not most were what you describe. But I still think there were some that weren't so bad. Like the tribes I mentioned. If you think about it they couldn't have been all that barbaric and terrible or else how do you explain so many whites intermarrying and having children with them? I can't see any European mating with or marrying a complete blood thirsty savage, I surely would like to hope none of my ancestors did. So I don't believe all of them were so bad. I think there were some who were the type to go around scalping little girls and raping white woman, but I think there were others who were a bit more peaceful and compatible with Europeans. Don't get the wrong idea about me and think that I'm the type to go around mentioning to everyone I meet that I'm like 10% indian and thinking it's the coolest thing in the world. It's not like I root for the indians in the movies and have a teepee in my backyard and get a casino check in the mail every month(that would be nice though:cool:). I always consider myself white. But....like I explained, my slight indian ancestry is Seminole and they are the only tribe that never surrendered so that is unique, and I admire their sheer resolve. That's about all I have to say about that.     PS- You can't blame the injins for wanting to kill whites though. The Euros were trespassing on their land as far as they were concerned. Just as the Mexicans are stampeding into our country at this very moment and intent on taking it over. I sure wouldn't mind scalping me a few beaners :D     