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    I believe that Jacob’s option and focus differed from Jeffrey’s in several ways. Being that Jeffrey’s focused mainly in the Oregon territory and the Whitman’s‚ it was a more personal story about the missionaries. Jeffrey’s told the story that followed Narcissa Whitman as she grew up‚ wed her husband‚ had a child‚ lost her child‚ the adoption children‚ and became a missionary wife. On the other hand‚ Jacobs focuses on the Indians‚ she tells more of their story‚ both here in America and in Australia

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    1 The legacy of the independence movements in South America became a usual pattern among the rebelling countries. Violence and anarchy were the results of these movements‚ with the native Indians often suffering the worst of the disorder. Often it took years for the broken countries to make stable governments and restore order and happiness. 2. Andrew Jackson‚ being a frontiersman‚ believed that white settlers had the right to seize Indian lands. After being pushed out of their lands all the way

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    First in the story ‘Things Fall Apart’ Umufio had to face the white man that came from the Americas it challenged them into believing in one god and one god only.Okwownko’s sense of identity was challenged with the introduction of western ideas into the Ibo culture.Okownowo started out in the novel as a hardworking man‚ but the cultural collision of the British colonist and Ibo people affected culture to the point of changing their beliefs.The reason for belief change in their sense of identity included

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    Precious Metals

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    Lure of precious metals: Precious metals were a major pull factor for the west because everybody was looking for the opportunity to become wealthy individuals which was known as the American dream at that time. Gold and silver was the metals that every single person was looking for in the westward expansion‚ immigrants and citizens were willing to kill to get their hands on any gold or silver mine. The killing‚ weirdly enough‚ was mostly was the removal of Indians. The India wars: War was inedible

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    Yakama Reflection

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    Hey Facebook! Here’s an update on my life for those who want to know: I spent my spring break working with an organization called Sacred Road on a reservation in Yakama Washington. I have also spent my semester studying and researching poverty on Native American reservations‚ specifically in Yakama‚ and I will be working on a number of economic development projects with Sacred Road on the reservation for much of this summer! God has placed this group of people on my heart and in my mind for reasons

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    The apotheosis and popularization of the American West has left an indelible and lamentable stain upon the historical record of the United States for both European and Native Americans. Moreover‚ this revisionist history has obfuscated the objective reality of the American West. Relations between European and Native Americans have been vexed by this miscarriage of justice all the way through the present era. In this fallacious and farcical narrative of rugged individual European Americans conquering

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    EQ – 1 The five Indian tribes that lived in the New York State area‚ before English colonists arrived‚ merged together into the Iroquois Confederacy around 1450 in an effort to get rid of fighting between tribes and to create a larger and more peaceful Indian nation. Furthermore‚ the tribes intended to create a form of representative democracy to ensure all of the tribes that joined were happy with the changes that would have to be made to keep the peace among the groups.¬ In an effort to achieve

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    In my opinion‚ the relation between Europeans and the Amerindians were terrible in the last 50 years. It has been terrible since the start because‚ the white men wanted to conquered the Amerindians in a form of mass assimilation. One of the forms of a mass assimilation is to put the Indians on the reservation and be able to control them. There are 64 reservation in the States‚ also the (BIE) or Bureau of Indian Education are responsible for the school educations for native students. The (AIM /ARM)

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    The Pequot war‚ a war that was imposing that it impacted history. It was a grave war as it had lasted for 38 years and ended in 1675. Some say that this battle between the Native Americans and the Europeans in 1636 ended in the Pequot suffering due to a mysterious death of John Oldham changed America and is now what it is today. After battling over clash of trade‚ land‚ and how the puritans were living‚ they have decided to take action.. This dreadful action was what led to the almost complete devastation

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    Dawes Act Dbq

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    There were benefits and sacrifices for adapting the Dawes Act in 1887. It allowed Native Americans to merge with Americans through U.S. citizenship. It also opened land for settlers to move West‚ but at the same time allotted Native Americans a selective amount of land. Native Americans were required to register with an English name on the Dawes Poll to be considered in the land distribution. The Act is perceived by some that it benefited the American people more than the Native Americans. The

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