… slanderous portrayals of Native Americans as bellicose brutes … supposedly friendly Native Americans joined Pilgrims for … momentous early encounters, Native Americans greeted Europeans with … encouraged the slaughter of Native Americans. “Extermination,” Nabokov …… slanderous portrayals of Native Americans as bellicose brutes … supposedly friendly Native Americans joined Pilgrims for … momentous early encounters, Native Americans greeted Europeans with … encouraged the slaughter of Native Americans. “Extermination,” Nabokov …