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==Pre-Columbian Americas==
In Mesoamerica the [[Aztec]] civilization used the word "[[Chichimeca]]" to denominate a group of nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes that lived on the outskirts of the [[Aztec Triple Alliance|Triple Alliance]]'s Empire, in the north of Modern Mexico, and whom the Aztec people saw as primitive and uncivilized. One of the meanings attributed to the word "Chichimeca" is "dog people".

The [[Incas]] of South America used the term "purum awqa" for all peoples living outside the rule of their empire (see [[Promaucaes]]).

[[Colonial history of the United States|European and European American colonists]] frequently referred to [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] as "savages".<ref>Franklin, Benjamin (first published 1791). ''The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin''. Chapter XIX. Online version: [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm] "During his absence the French and savages had taken Fort George, on the frontier of that province, and the savages had massacred many of the garrison after capitulation...."</ref>