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    history of caddo

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    hunting and war. The Caddo lived in sturdy‚ grass lodges with a wooden frame about 50 feet high in villages. Each lodge can hold up to 30 people!! They planted crops in the large‚ clearing of the forests. They raised corn‚ beans‚ and squash along with hunting deer‚ turkey‚ rabbits‚ squirrels‚ and other animals in the pine woods. The women would also gather wild plant food like acorns‚ blackberries‚ persimmons‚ roots‚ and other plants provided‚ but the main source of food was corn‚ beans‚ and

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    Seneca Indians: Allies and Enemies Seneca are among the most respected and feared. The Seneca are culturally similar to their Cayuga‚ Onondaga‚ Oneida‚ an Mohawk confederates. The five tribes were known as the Five Nations or the League of Five Nations. Sometime between 1715 and 1722 the Tuscaroras from North Carolina joined the confederacy and changed the name to the Six Nations. In their relations with white settlers the Seneca played the role of an independent power and were this way from

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    1. Mayflower Compact - 1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America - Set up Plymouth colony.                                                            2. The Pilgrims - Separatists who believed that the Church of England could not be reformed–Plymouth colony                            3. The Puritans - Non-separatists – Wanted to purify the Church of England - Massachusetts Bay Colony 4. William Bradford - A Pilgrim‚ the second governor of the Plymouth colony‚ 1621-1657.                             

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    Gary Nash

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    Thayendanegea started their own revolutions to prove to the white people that they were just as equal and deserved the same treatment and natural rights despite their race. Thomas Peters‚ only being a slave‚ successfully accomplished his plan for freedom along with other ex-slaves and refugees from London who desperately wanted freedom from the cruel treatment from their masters and the British. To put life to this plan‚ he first had to escape many times from his masters and the plantations that he was enslaved

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    include rising wool prices‚ presence of large number of substitutes and higher price points. Although there are number of companies engaged in the production of carpet tiles‚ Interface enjoys a clear leadership. The other major players include Mohawk‚ Shaw‚ Milliken‚ Toli and Tandus. Interface’s Flor and Milliken’s Tesserae and Legato are the only residential tile lines in the market. The report analyzes the global

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    History of Michigan Test

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    1.The term "Three Fires" refers to the dominant tribes in Michigan during the early 1600s. The three tribes were: A) Sauk‚ Fox‚ and Algonquin B) Cherokee‚ Shawnee‚ and Sioux C) Ottawa‚ Chippewa‚ and Potawatomi D) Iroquois‚ Delaware‚ and Miami 2.How long had Native Americans lived on the North American continent before the first Europeans arrived? A) 8‚000 years B) 14‚000 years C) 10‚000 years D) 5‚000 years 3.In Carl Sandburg’s poem‚ "Four Preludes on Playthings on the Wind‚" words left behind in

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    event was the original proposition for a golf course. The course was to run through land‚ which was rightfully owned by the Mohawk community. It was the towns plan to construct a golf course over Kanesatake. After the refusal of the plan‚ proceedings took a darker and more extreme twist‚ which distinguished the sides clearly. The first death ensued after a raid on Mohawk blockade from the Sûreté du Québec ended with gunfire. The Canadian government stepped in trying to ensure that no more violence

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    Caribbean Music

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    brought to Caribbean Island. They composed music with the help of percussion instruments like drums‚ bells and shakers. The music had unique musical style elements with special tempo-setting rhythms created by claves or bells‚ multi-layered and syncopated rhythms and songs which were in the form of call-and-response formats. The European influence came through the usage of guitar‚ Spanish dance styles along with the use of Western European type of harmony. There are different types of Caribbean

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    head with a club and the soldiers fired even though the captain never said to. In revenge for the stamp act and Boston Massacre three radical patriots performed the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was when three radical patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians got on board of a British ship that was carrying 46 tons of tea and was dumped into the harbor. The conflict between the Monarchy and nobility over reform of tax system lead to bankruptcy and more. In the result the Monarchy ends up falling

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    made with deer skin stuffed with fur. The traditional ball and stick were also the only pieces of equipment the Native Americans used. In ancient lacrosse there was no protective helmet‚ shoulder pads‚ elbow pads‚ or even most importantly no cup! Along with what was as necessary for why the played lacrosse‚ they also had pregame rituals that were taken very seriously. There were strict taboos on what players were allowed to eat before the game. Many players would also go to the village’s medicine

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