Summary about this story: ) coming of age in the dawnland

Charles C. Mann wrote "Coming of Age in the Dawnland" to disprove a common misconception, and the erroneous label placed on the Native Americans.

In his writing, he claimed that the Native Americans were also civilized people.  This means that they did not practice the stereotypical barbarism, which was widely attributed to them.  

They operated an organized system of government.  They observed moral principles and acceptable rules of conduct.  Above all, they interacted among themselves and lived in houses that factored in the weather and the dynamics of their time, training up their children in the ways of their cultures.

Before the dawn of the Europeans, the Native Americans did not engage in endless and senseless bloodletting.  They observed human decorum in their conflicts and sought amicable ways to resolve their differences.

Thus, the Native Americans cannot be described as savage.

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