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…William Henry Harrison, (1773-1841), was 9th President of the United States. The oldest president up until then, he was also the first to die in office, surviving only one month. With his known Indian fighting his was given the nickname “Old Tippecanoe…

…things like any president would probably do. He starts with the Spoil System. This is where Jackson can give away any government job to any one of his friends. This will backfire later. Then there is the huge problem of the Indians. The five civilized tribes…

…. Finally, racism reflects every aspect of American society. For in the United States, the European, the Negro and Indian coexist uneasily, with the Europeans dominating the other races tyrannically. The situation of the Negroes has led them to a state…

…Ghandi Gandhi was a man who put all his personal interests and needs on the line for his people and country. Ghandi’s campaign began in South Africa with his defense of the civil rights of Indians who were living in South Africa. After the success…

…some of the items found at the sites once inhabited by known as the Early Woodland Period of the Indian peoples of the Northeast are conch shells from the Gulf of Mexico, copper from Lake Superior, silver from Ontario, and Canadian grizzlybear teeth from…

…the United States barged in and manipulated them tell they got moved out of their land. The Cherokee Indians are just one example of the United States destroying the lives of Native Americans. The United States’ large power let them constantly take more land…

…I found chapter thirteen offensive and obscene. The things that were done to the Seminole Indians were just unbelievable. First the US soldiers steal their land and then they put them on prison ships. I had a hard time reading it. It starts out…

…Mexico is our neighbor to the south. The United States was once part of Mexico. The country is a place for tourism and vacations for us. For the Mexicans, it’s home. They live different lives then us. Near the year 7000 B.C., Indians learned to grow…

…of their basic rights due to laws that stole their culture, language, and children. The consistent mistreatment led to the creation of the Indian Act that was passed by the Canadian government in 1876. The Indian Act was aimed for consistent assimilation, integration…

…discuss rumors the Europeans heard about the Natives: "The "savages" of America, it was said, were not content merely to kill their victims. There were stories that they liked to torture their captives and even to eat them. Some Indian cruelties were…