M’s Reviews > We Were Not the Savages: First Nations History ? Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations > Status Update

“In retrospect, if the Amerindians had not reached this stage [of human relations] by 1492, European colonization could not have occurred. Instead, because of their skin colour, political structures, strange clothing, and religions, Europeans would have been either enslaved, repulsed, or exterminated upon arrival.”