Papers 2631-2640 of total 7777 found.
Category: /History
…After 1763 George Grenville, the British Prime Minister, sent the army over to the colonies to supposedly keep the colonists and Indians from fighting. The colonists did not believe that they needed any further military support from Britain and looked…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…"Polacks" (p. 21). Dave Moss, another salesman later refers to Polish clients as "deadbeat Polacks" (p 29). He then goes on to degrade Indian clients. Richard Roma, a recently successful salesman also refers to Indians as "deadbeat wogs," and says…
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…was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a Commissioner to the National Indian Gaming Commission. He is a partner in the St. Paul, Minnesota law firm JOHNSON HAMILTON QUIGLEY TWAIT & FOLEY PLC, which focuses on Administrative Law, Indian Gaming & Economic…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…in the rim rock and is in tune with the land and her surroundings. Being torn between the white world and the Indian world and the unfortunate circumstances of his upbringing, leaves Tayo feeling invisible and hollow inside. TsÂ’eh helps him to become in touch…
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Category: /Literature/English
…, American Indians were being discriminated against under the assumption that they were less evolved wild animals. Many Europeans disregarded them as animals without souls. Thus, making it acceptable to displace, enslave, and even kill them. If they were animals…
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Category: /Literature/English
…by Indians. They quickly find Linda among the Indians. At first they do not realize who she is, but she explains what happened. Linda is aged and obese. Also, Linda has a son named John who is the Director's child. John is educated and mature, having read…
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Category: /Literature/English
…not, they refused to work. The expected the Indians to provide food. At this time many settlers died of starvation or disease. Because the first settlers refused to work, in May of 1611, Sir Thomas Dale arrived to Jamestown as governor where he established laws…
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Category: /Literature/English
…of the novel is the dispossesion of Native Americans. A historical novel, Tracks is set against the reservation period in the history of U.S. relations to Native Americans, when the government relocated Indians to strictly defined reservations.The Dawes Allotment…
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Category: /Literature/English
…this phenomenon, known as the origin of man (Hunt) then used this story. Many cultures, for example, have a different myth to explain the origin of man. Native Indian myths suggest that the joining of sprits created man. The sprits also taught man how…
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Category: /Literature/English
…trip to South Africa and he was greeted with prejudice and discrimination against the fellow Indians living there. What was supposed to be a trip, ended up being a 21 year stay as he began to work towards a cause he believed in, Indian rights. He…
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