(Q) The above excerpt most directly reflects which predominant view of the Native American by the New England colonists by the mid- to late 1600s?
(A) Native Americans were a free people from whom much could be learned.
(B) Native Americans had an admirable system of law.
(C) Native Americans were crude and ungodly.
(D) Native Americans were civilized, but incapable of abiding by their own laws.