European Ethnocentrism Regarding the Writings for Native Americans

After reading on the invasion of the America's it was clear that the book contained a lot of European ethnocentrism. The chapter was based on Calloway's point of view as to what happened. He had a lot of testimonies that came from different European soldiers as to what they felt the Indians experienced. In order to not have the European ethnocentrism Calloway needed to include the Indians point of view as well. He somehow needed to obtain testimony or documents that were written by the Indians'. Calloway did try to give the point of views of what the soldiers thought the Indians felt but it still didn't give the same effect that we would have gotten if it came straight from the Indians themselves. The chapter starts out by discussing some of the routes that were taken to reach the America's by different countries that sought out to create new colonies. …