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    attack the stagecoach before it nears my village. This will need to be thought about further before any action is taken. We do keep some ties with these people. They have brought with them items that help to increase our hunting efficiency and so we have created trade with them. We take to them animal skins‚ furs and tobacco in return we get horses‚ blankets and guns. With this trade comes a price‚ many people within the tribe feel as though the Europeans are infecting the materials they trade

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    The Native American Culture should be saved because they are people of American‚ they have their own belief system and the different ways of living. Native Americans are people too‚ but they are treated very different from "normal" Americans. One example of a Native American Culture would be the Navajo Indians which was the tribe in the TV show "30 Days". The Navajo tribe lives on a reservation in 3 states: Arizona‚ Utah‚ and New Mexico. Navajo reservation is know for being one of the biggest reservations

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    circumstances traditional Native American cultures couldn’t have co-existed alongside European American cultures. The Americas have come a long way in their intercultural acceptance and interactions. Looking back at the relationship between African Americans and Caucasians one would have never believed that we would have a African American President. Though we have made amazing progress I do not think that the European American culture and the traditional Native American cultures could have co-existed

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    of Native Americans an act of genocide? Native Americans once lived in peace‚ but then European colonists such as Christopher Columbus began to invade their land. At first‚ the Natives and them treated each other with respect‚ but soon after‚ Columbus turned on the Natives ’ and used their generosity to his advantage. Aside from brutal acts of abuse‚ murder‚ and thief‚ they also brought diseases such as small pox and measles which slowly began to wipe out their population. Millions of Natives suffered

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    2. The U.S. was interested in Cuba for several reasons. Firstly‚ it is geographically close and provides exports like sugar. Also‚ Cuba would be able to assist in the United States’ control of the Caribbean‚ through a naval base. The explosion of the USS Maine created tensions that would cause U.S. involvement. 3. U.S. involvement in the Spanish-American was partly due to

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    HIST 172 Sec 06 Mr. Wisialowski Native Americans and their Great Change             From the 1400s to 1877 many historical events have occurred in the growing of the new world. However‚ some of those occurrences have affected many different groups including women‚ African Americans‚ and Native Americans in a negative manner. From the three groups‚ I feel that the Native Americans have seen the most changes in their lives‚ but for the worse. I believe this to be true for many reasons such as; the

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    with unknown machines and animals they also looked like Gods who‚ what ‚why were they there???‚ with this advantage they conquered a civilization once called‚ The Aztecs. The Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs by using powerful weapons such as shotguns‚ canons‚ gunpowder‚ swords killer dogs and furious horses They could advance faster and kill more efficiently . If we compare the difference between Aztecs and conquistadors weapons there is a huge gap between both of them‚ the Aztecs only had

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    The Natchez War The Natchez are Native American people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area near the present-day city of Natchez‚ Mississippi. Archaeological evidence states that the Natchez people lived in the Natchez Bluffs region since as long ago as 700 A.D. The Natchez Indians were among the last American Indian groups to inhabit the area now known as southwestern Mississippi. Only after several disputes with the French were the Natchez dispersed. The French began exploring

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    their land‚ the government illegally stole their land. And is after that when a series of treaties ware made with the Indians. Sovereignty is supreme and independent power or authority in government as possessed or claimed by a state or community‚ so it’s basically a government or state having power and authority over another. I think how treaty relates to sovereignty is because they both describe the idea of one been higher and having power over the other‚ because when the Indians sign the treaties

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    United States. The people who wanted the war were mostly Democrats and Southerners. Southerners supported the war because they were in hope that more land would be acquired meaning more states would be admitted into the union as slave states. For this same reason the Whig Party opposed the war because they were abolitionists. Abolitionists opposed slavery so with the addition of new slave states‚ their hopes of making the U.S a slave free country were thwarted. Abolitionists such as Members from

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