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    Woodland Indians

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    Woodland And The Seven Years’ War The Eastern Woodland Indians mainly consisted of two major regions the Iroquois‚ which comprised of five tribes and added an additional a sixth later‚ and the Cherokee. The Indians in the Eastern Woodland nation lived East of the plains and all the way to the coast‚ Iroquois in North Eastern currently know as the Ohio area and Cherokee South Eastern currently known as the Tennessee and Georgia area. All Indians lived off the lands hunting‚ gathering‚ farming‚ and

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    indian indentureship

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    East Indian Indentureship The Indians arriving in the New World called themselves Jahan or “People of the Ship‚” referring to the ship that brought them across the oceans to the Americas. See chart below for East Indians arriving in South America starting in 1838 and in the Caribbean starting in 1845. In 1838‚ after the abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean‚ the agriculture production in Guyana (formerly known as British Guiana and located on mainland South America) had fallen by 60 percent

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    Cowboys and Indians

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    Cowboys and Indians – Clara Madsen 1) Resume The story "Cowboys and Indians" is about a girl‚ who is at her grandmothers funeral. She doesn’t feel very comfortable‚ so she calls her cousin David to come and rescue her. He is a real rebellion and he picks her up on his motorcycle. Their first stop is at a bar where they drink a couple of shots and a beer. Then they drive of again. At the second stop they smoke a joint and talk about their grandmother‚ and how David feels stuck in his life. Then

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    Indian Civilization

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    INDIAN CIVILIZATION Also called Indus Valley Civilization; the earliest in South Asia Contemporary with Bronze Age civilizations in pre-dynastic Egypt‚ Mesopotamia Compared to the other Bronze Age civilizations‚ Indus Valley Civilization was unspectacular Early civilizations of the Indian sub-continent were centred on two major river valleys: The Indus River and its tributaries‚ especially the Saraswati River Valley (2600-1500BCE) – associated with Dravidians. Called Harappan Culture The Ganges

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    Indian Parliament

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    Members of Parliament or MPs. The MPs of Lok Sabha are directly elected by the Indian public and the MPs of Rajya Sabha are elected by the members of the State Legislative Assemblies‚ in accordance with proportional representation. The Parliament is composed of 790 MPs‚ who serve the largest democratic electorate in the world; 714 million Indians registered to vote in the 2009 general elections. Components The Indian Parliament consists of two houses called as Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha respectively

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    Indian Constitution

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    Indian Constitution Idea for a Constituent Assembly for drafting a constitution for India was first provided by Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1895. The elections for the  first Constituent Assembly were held in July 1946. Initially it had 389 members‚ but later the reformed Assembly had 324 members. The State of Hydrabad did not participate in elections to the Constituent Assembly. The first meeting of Constituent Assembly was held on December 9‚ 1946— its president was Dr Sacchidanand Sinha.

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    Indian Tourism

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    gives an account on the development schemes that has been undertaken by thed Indian government to improve tourism in India. A lot of advantages of tourism are there as well.In this project all those advantage as well as the disadvantages of having tourism is listed.So this project gives an detail account on the tourism in India.for this reason I hope that after reading this project you will gain a lot of knowledge about INDIAN

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    The Hopi Indians

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    In the southwestern United States‚ above northern Arizona‚ are three mesas. The mesas create the home for the Hopi Indians. The Hopi have a deeply religious‚ isolated‚ tribal culture with a unique history.<br><br>The Hopi stress group cooperation. The tribe is organized around a clan system. In a clan system‚ all the members consider themselves relatives. The clans form a social glue that has held the Hopi villages together. Clan membership provides a singular Hopi identity. <br><br>The Hopi have

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    The Indian Removal

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    assimilate with white American culture‚ Indians were encouraged to "convert to Christianity; learn to speak and read English; and adopt European-style economic practices such as the individual ownership of land and other property. However‚ in 1802 Georgia and Federal Government had started talking about passing a law to remove the indians and move them west of the Mississippi. The indian removal act was put in place to give the southern states the land that the indians had originally settled on. The act

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    forward and trying to change a bad situation into a good one for having a better life is a wrong decision? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is a novel written by Sherman Alexie. The novel is about Arnold Spirit; everyone calls him Junior. He is a teenage boy with a tough life who lives with his family in poverty on a Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit‚ Washington. He hates living in poverty and wants something better for himself. “I feel like I might grow up to be somebody important

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