RESOURCE EXTRACTION ON NATIVE AMERICAN LANDS Andrew Kalmey This August 2012 article “Tapping Into the Land‚ and Dividing its People” describes the controversies of whether the Blackfeet tribes should allow oil companies on to their 1.5 million acre reservation on order to drill for oil. This issue causes divide within the peoples on the reservation because of their Blackfeet beliefs of how the land is living and very sacred and whether or not to go against those beliefs in order to gain jobs and
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Northern and Southern British Colonies of North America The views of Northern and Southern British Colonies of North America developed different culturally factors including economically and political views‚ education‚ and religious instruction. Colonies in the north and south developed their own characteristics making them significant for the main land‚ and later becomes the new nation itself. Economic wise‚ the colonies had more differences than similarities. The North had small farms while the
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Greene opens up the video stating that the relationship between the Indians and the Englishmen was one of the worst relationships in the U.S history. In the beginning‚ the relationship with the Indians went so well that colonial leader John Smith ordered his men to stop stealing from the Indians. Greene articulates that both parties were willing to trade items they had in surplus with ones they did not. The Indians traded woven cloths and foods with guns and iron utensils provided by the Europeans
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of an Indian American Student By:Kavya Bomma When someone says the word Indian‚ their minds go straight to at least these three words: curry‚ light bulb twisting‚ and spicy food. Though is that all there is to being an Indian American? What are people not seeing that makes them think this. Indian American kids have a double life in most cases. Their dressing‚ activities‚ music‚ food‚ and dancing are very different from the traditional American music. While Indian American kids are Indian‚ they
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Differences in the American and French Revolutions Sometimes a revolution can take place within a country against its own current state of government‚ other times a revolution can take place externally to rid a country of another country’s influence. There are many components that are involved in a revolution taking place. One must consider the causes or reasons of the situation‚ the events that occur during the revolution and the effects or aftermath that had been created by that revolution. There
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from that America would become independent. The British won the war and conquered the Ohio River Valley like they always wished. Britain was looking forward to moving into the land they conquered. Nothing could go wrong‚ they had the land and they had the people. Unfortunately for them it did not go that well. Two major problems came up‚ money and land. Those two situations caused a lot of tension between the 13 Colonies and Britain. The colonists were not satisfied with the decisions that were being
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StudentB Essay 1 ‚ Multicultural literature Prof. Chris Patterson March 23‚ 2014 American Indians and Freedom American Indians have striven for freedom ceaselessly since the colonization in 1800s. But for different American Indians‚ the definitions of freedom vary a lot. For the chief Seattle‚ the writer of AUTHENTIC TEXT OF CHIEF SEATTLE’S TREATY ORATION 1854‚ the freedom means the rights to live with the nature harmoniously and to keep their religion and traditions. For Carlos Montezuma‚
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The American Revolutionary War was fought and won by the Colonists because of an idea. The idea was freedom. There are many reasons why freedom became a pertinent idea to the colonists and in this paper I shall discuss what events lead up to this idea. I shall examine the British theory of mercantilism‚ the French-Indian War‚ and many of the acts that Great Britain sought to make the Colonists to abide by. Through these three events‚ the idea of freedom blossomed within many Colonists ’ thoughts
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“Geography was the primary factor in shaping the development of the Britain colonies in North America?” Assess the validity of this statement for the 1600’s. When the British Colonies were started in America‚ the reasoning for the colonization varied. Most Europeans that moved to America were Puritans who first came from Catholic Church or Anglican Church in England. Moving to America wasn’t necessarily based on geography. Living in America was about starting a new life or trying to fulfill
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French Revaluation French Revaluation was one of the oldest revaluation in the world’s history of modernization in 18th century. The French revaluation has many factors of the West at the end of the 18th main causes may explain why it was most violent in the worlds history and important about this revaluation. In 1789 French had conflicts in Political‚ Social and Economic situations in French that contributed to the depression felt by thousands of French people especially those people who lived in
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