Although the Indians in I Heard The Owl Call My Name, and in The Black Robe are primitive in the technological sense, they are neither simple or emotional people. The Indians in both texts could be classed as primitive people - if we take primitive to mean technologically underdeveloped. The level of technology possessed by the white man is far superior to that of the Indians, yet the Indians in The Black Robe are happy …showed first 75 words of 394 total…

…showed last 75 words of 394 total…The Indians in The Black Robe can communicate with white man satisfactorily enough, considering they had little or no contact with any other white man. They are just as - if not more intelligent than most other people. The war and torture committed by the Indians in The Black Robe could be seen as simple and barbaric but this is no reason to label all Indians as barbarians, one could argue all war is barbaric.