This misinterpretation of the Native American government led to the belief that the Native Americans ran around wild and lawless without any sense of laws, and led to the expression, "acting like a bunch of wild Indians."" ... Because of these physical differences, and well as the differences in heritages, Europeans began refereeing to all Native Americans as one people and called them names such as "red-skin- or "red race."" ... This process was called assimilation. ...

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The artistic community was called into action, producing whole schools of painting, which glorified the development of the nation. ... The so-called Hudson River School appeared in the mid 1820s. ... The Hunter's Return represents wild woods surrounding a glade where a family seems to be living in symbiotically with the prevailing forces of nature. ... America was still a new country, and many considered it as a Garden of Eden, plentiful and wild. ... As Albert Boime says, "inevitably, the extermination of Native Americans is tied to the conquest of the wilderness and its transformation i...

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