Joseph Brant was born in 1742 and his Indian name was Thayendanegea. Thayendanegea meaning he who places two bets. Joseph’s father was a sachem of the Iroquois Confederacy‚ which was to where the Mohawks belonged. Whereas Brant’s mother was not a Mohawk like his father. Brant did become a war chief but never rose to the rank of sachem. His parents were said to live at the Canajoharie castle in New York. Even though his family would have been a consideration and he was the grandson of one of the
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The years directly before the civil war were marked by escalating tensions and sharply declining relations between the North and South as differences between the two territories were made clear. John Brown’s raid in October of 1859 came at that volatile time and provoked an extreme reaction from the South immediately afterward; as the furious public option of the South was that the entire North had personally supported and condoned Brown and his violent actions in the ultimate quest of abolition
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During the years of 1846 to 1848‚ America and Mexico were in war due to conflicts regarding slavery and territories. Henry Clay (the Secretary of State at that time) tried to end the war by introducing a series of bills called The Compromise of 1850. The Compromise had five laws that were put in place to help the Northern Free States and the Southern Slave States come to a natural balance. In September 9‚ 1850‚ the government passed three of the laws from the Compromise of 1850. The first three
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horse was increasing and Indians were now recognizing the pressure that was taken off of them to fulfill tasks and duties. Raids were becoming more and more common especially among the Comanche tribe. In these raids not only horses were stolen‚ however. Mules were stolen due to their high prices in the eastern markets. Along with the animals‚ a vital by-product of the raids was
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In Gayle Rubin’s revolutionary essay‚ “Thinking Sex”‚ which shook the very foundations of feminism and queer studies‚ she introduces the idea of six ‘features’ that can get in the way of other’s ability to comprehend sexual oppression and rebuke it. Though “Thinking Sex” doesn’t quite explicitly state or list these motifs of Western culture‚ the six features of Western thought that get in the way of our ability to comprehend sexual oppression and denounce it are capitalism‚ politics‚ religion‚ psychology
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The general view of the Vikings between the 9th and 12th century is that of raids‚ pillage and destruction. However‚ ’In recent years the role of Vikings in stimulating international trade and peaceful commerce has been emphasised‚ and their war like activities played down.’ Their skills at trading were unparalleled‚ opening up new routes between eastern and western Europe. Wealth therefore flowed through Britain and Northern England where the Vikings chose to settle. Their lasting footprint on
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freedom Fighter. My belief is that he was a freedom fighter ‚and not a terrorist. He was not because none of his actions were meant to cause fear to anybody. His raid on Harpers Ferry was not a terrorist attack. His attack was not meant to cause fear. He just wanted the guns in the armory. He did not want anybody to die in the raid. That is what happened at Harpers Ferry and next is Pottawatomie. His killings at Pottawatomie were not terrorist attacks. He gave the people he killed a chance
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personal status depended on were the accumulation of wives and horses. Welch underscores the importance of the horse to the Blackfeet early in the novel. Fools Crow participates in a raid on a Crow village in order to strengthen his personal power through stealing horses and increasing his wealth. He earns twenty horses in the raid‚ and although he gives five to the medicine man‚ Mik-api‚ he feels "that his change for fortune was complete. Mik-api’s prayers in the sweat lodge for him had been answered. The
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means of attacking Japan was via aerial attacks. Originally‚ these aerial raids were meant to be strategic in nature – targeting only the military factories. Unfortunately‚ this proved to be ineffective due to the unstable weather surrounding Japan. This forced the military to move onto another tactic – fire bombing. According to Thomas R. Searle‚ “The United States Army Air Forces devoted the bulk of its effort to ‘area raids’ that used incendiary bombs to burn down Japanese cities and to kill hundreds
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and led successful raids against the Sudanese military. This resulted in the government of Sudan arming the Janjaweed with heavy military equipment and training‚ and aerial raids against the rebels. Instead of the government directly killing innocent non-Arab civilians they chose the Janjaweed to do it. This way the Sudanese could deny direct military involvement in the genocide. The Janjaweed who face resistance from the rebels are often backed by government forces in their raids of villages. In the
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