“印第安女苦役”形象作为近代西方文化与印第安文化相互碰撞的产物,成为欧洲启蒙思想家论述美洲退化问题的主要论据。而美国政治思想家托马斯·杰斐逊则认为印第安人与欧洲人在体质和心智方面并不存在差异,性别压迫的现象广泛存在于野蛮社会之中,强调唯有在文明社会,所有社会成员的权益才能获得真正的保障。在此基础上,杰斐逊构建起印第安社会野蛮的言论,积极推行印第安人“开化”政策。在19世纪以来美国白人与印第安人矛盾不断激化,以及印第安社会对同化政策持续抵制的特殊历史语境之下,美国白人开始广泛渲染印第安人在体质和心智方面的先天缺陷,将其比作不可救药的低劣种族。至此,杰斐逊基于人类种族间体质和心智平等而构建出的印第安社会野蛮的言论,演化为印第安人体质和心智具有先天缺陷的印第安人种族低劣论,成为白人屠杀和掠夺印第安人的法理基础,对近代美国社会中白人与印第安人之间群体关系的发展产生了深远的影响。 As the product of the collisions between modern Western culture and Indian culture, the image of “Indian female labor force” has become the main argument for European enlightenment thinkers on the issue of degeneration in the Americas. The American political thinker Thomas Jefferson believes that Indians and Europeans do not differ physically and mentally. The phenomenon of gender oppression is widespread in barbarous society and emphasizes that only the rights and interests of all members of society can be obtained in a civilized society Real protection. On this basis, Jefferson built barbaric remarks in Indian society and actively promoted the Indo-American policy. Under the special historical context of the escalating conflicts between white Americans and Indians in the United States in the nineteenth century and the continuous resistance of Indian society to assimilation policies, American whites began to widely exaggerate the physical and mental deficiencies of Native Americans as non-observable Poor medicine to save the race. Thus far, Jefferson’s barbaric remarks about Indian society based on the physical and mental equality of human beings have evolved into indigenized ethnic inferiority of indians with constitutional and mental defects. They have become the legal basis for the white massacre and plunder of Indians. The development of the group relations between whites and Indians in modern American society had a profound impact.