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…, at a 1 to 2 ratio, to comfort the towns they passed on the way. The US government took the Indians from their homes in 1838 in the beautiful Georgia area and sent them where the land was dry and unfertile, leaving hundreds of them to die on the way…

…The poem I choose was “I Have Killed the Deer”. This poem was written by a Pueblo Indian. He explained how throughout his life he took the other lives of plants and animals in order to survive. He said that when he died he would give his body…

…History 101 Losing the Constitution on the Trail To most people in America in 1830 the Indians and their tribes were nothing. They were lower in stature than the black slaves on farms and in houses. But to some, they were regarded…

…The Roots of Dependency The Navajos, Pawnees, and Choctaws all had to endure European, political, economical, and environmental threats to their own culture. When the life and subsistence system (hunting and gathering) of an Indian Nation…

…Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a documented account of the destruction of the American Indian in the late 1800s ending at the Battle of Wounded Knee. The author asks us to confront our past, which may make us uncomfortable…

…of people embraced the spirituality of the Indian as a relief from the over barring society. Because the Indian's political and societal structure was foreign to the same individuals, they assumed that the Indian did not possess these structures, and therefore…

…The Jamestown Fiasco The mistakes made by the early settlers at Jamestown, which threatened their survival is the fact that they didn’t harvest for themselves, but rely on Indians. During the winter of 1609-10, things could have been better, yet…

…For my book report, I read the book And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. The book is about a group of people who all get letters from an U. N. Owen, instructing them to go to a place called Indian Island. Once there, a recording plays saying…

…, it did not come close to embodying them. The independence won by the colonies directly benefited a small section of society consisting of the white and wealthy middle and upper classes. For the rest of society- consisting of women, slaves, Indians…

…Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a documented account of the destruction of the American Indian in the late 1800s ending at the Battle of Wounded Knee. The author asks us to confront our past, which may make us uncomfortable…