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…Dee Brown's book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. This non-fiction story takes place in the West of America in the late 1800's, from the point of view of an American Indian. This story explains in a straight forward way that the white men of our own…

…Colonists and Americans From the end of the French and Indian War, there was a sense of unity brewing among the colonies. The colonies had to unite in order to overcome a common foe as expressed in the Albany Plan of Union that called a combined…

…their need for power. I feel that the treatment of the Indians and Africans by the Europeans was completely unjustifiable. While the Indians and Africans were less technologically advanced and the Europeans were uneducated, in this particular field, nothing…

…tried to steal the land and resources from the Indians, but the Indians weren't going down without a fight. The Indians fought a tough battle to keep their land, but at the end they were still forced to move onto reservations. Western expansion cost…

…residence in Honduras in 1524 when Hernan Cortes instructed Cristobal de Olid to claim Triunfo de la Cruz. Other people followed and founded their own communties. It made one of the greatest struggles for power the world has ever seen. The native Indians…

…Matt Mr. Tucker American History October 10, 2000 History of the Iroquois Indians The Iroquois Indians were a tribe that was from upstate New York. Archeological evidence indicates that they were living ever since about 1100 AD, which was long…

…specifically to find gold and become rich. They robbed and stole from the Native Americans and raped many women native to the land. Probably even more infuriating to the “Indians” was the uncompromising need to convert them to Christianity. Throughout history…

…to the destruction of entire peoples and the environment. In The Deerslayer, Cooper expresses the racism toward the Indian people through a white settler who killed an Indian, “…’Twould ill become me to take a wife, under red-skin forms, from among heathen…none…

…chest of tea. The three ships carried all together 342 chests of tea, about 90,000 pounds, worth about 9,000 pounds sterling. On December 16, 1773 some of the men who were involved with the organization divided up into three groups and dressed as Indians…

…. Furthermore, the attitude that resulted from the book proved to further deteriorate the already poor view of the indian bands within Canada. To support her argument, Carter uses the newspaper, The Daily Patriot, to show the type of rumors already in place when…