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…on May 14, 1804 as they paddled up the Missouri in a 55-foot keelboat. Their first meeting with the Indians was on July 30 in Council Bluffs in Iowa. On October 26, they met the Mandan Indian tribe. In the tribe was Frenchan Toussaint Charbonneau and his…

…developed a good trading relationship with their business partners: the Natives (Origins, 41). The Indians were the people hunted and trapped the beaver and brought the final product to the Europeans. The relationship was very prosperous for both sides…

…together in the same place. It appeared to him that the universe was a great family, which gathered in Bassorah. It was with table, as of the second day, with an Egyptian, a Gangaride Indian, an inhabitant of Cathay, a Greek, a Celt, and several other foreigners…

…on and to survive for herself and her family who were depending on her strength. She used her sewing skills to sew things for the Indians who would in exchange give her food and items needed for survival. There were times that she would be so hungry that she could…

…of religious violence: the Moslems fighting the Hindus in India and Indian-controlled Kashmir; the Christians and Moslems battling it out in Indonesia, the Philippines, Spain, the Sudan and Nigeria; the repression of the Buddhists, Falun Gong and other religious…

…, the victims that escape the hands of the priest fall into the power of the authorities and …if we fix our eyes on the Indians, the heart grows desperate before the oppression which they endure from the priest and the caciques (128).” This theme is one…

…, and a walking medal of bravery, the blood on the hands of a skilled soldier. Who is Kit Carson? Kit Carson was a man of many professions. Kit Carson was not only a trapper but he was a cook, soldier, Indian agent, scout, and last a legend of the west. Kit Carson had…

…Indians, When we get rid of all the Indians and buffalo, the cattle... Will fill this country...These men [the buffalo hunters] have done...more to settle the vexed Indian question than the entire regular army has done in the last thirty years…

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

…as a scout under Major Gibson in Winchester, Tennessee, to avenge an Indian attack on Fort Mimms, Alabama. On November 3, under Andrew Jackson, Crockett participated in the retributive massacre of the Indian town of Tallussahatchee. He returned home when his…