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The sound was turned down but images of Amazonian Indians smoking jungle grass and skinning an animal filled the room with an eerie glow
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In the same evening, in a movie on TV there is a similar scene: A tribe of Indians lives near an elephant cemetery guarded by a monster
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The Indians claim that people who are afflicted with arthritis or allied complaints should keep a raw, unpeeled, winter-crop potato—yes, I did say a potato!—close to their skin day and night until the condition is relieved
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'Mate, you Indians are good at this emotional stuff
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'You Indians have good talent, but the training - trust me on that mate
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Come to think of it, I’ve not seen too many documentaries on the Indians
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There are so many mistaken truths and outright lies about the Indians that prompt that wannabe phenomena
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The Indians want what everyone else wants, but there are so many laws, rules, broken treaties, and double standards, that for the majority of them, it’s impossible to achieve
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“There is no glorified mystical euphoria that surrounds the Indians
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He dreamt of indians, out in the wild, hunting, feasting around a large bonfire, singing, and dancing the night away
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It’s all just another game of cowboys and Indians, and Ken has the biggest gun
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Not even the Indians
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And because those games were so popular they used to play them at the Cleveland Indians spring training stadium called Hi Corbett Field located on Randolph Park where I worked as a Park Ranger later on
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I searched for the cassava root, which the Indians, in all that climate, make their bread of, but I could find none
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The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea ; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce
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Quito, which had been but a miserable hamlet of Indians, is represented by the same author as in his time equally populous
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In spite of the cruel destruction of the natives which followed the conquest, these two great empires are probably more populous now than they ever were before; and the people are surely very different; for we must acknowledge, I apprehend, that the Spanish creoles are in many respects superior to the ancient Indians
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Almost all the ships too, that sail between Europe and China, touch at Batavia; and it is, over and above all this, the centre and principal mart of what is called the country trade of the East Indies; not only of that part of it which is carried on by Europeans, but of that which is carried on by the native Indians; and vessels navigated by the inhabitants of China and Japan, of Tonquin, Malacca, Cochin-China, and the island of Celebes, are frequently to be seen in its port
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Both the Egyptians and Indians must have depended almost altogether upon the navigation of other nations for the
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There is a back trail left over from the Mingo Indians, who had a village on the river
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The Cowboys/Mercenaries had been attacked by a band of savage Indians
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Myself and my brother played cowboys and indians on it
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Content to just sit here in this cluttered old room with all its relations and cowboys and indians and cats having kittens and it's covered wagons and trains
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land acquired free and clear, as the American Indians had no part in the agreement with France
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He ate as all hungry Indians do; and Archer looked on in wonder and
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What: Mass killings and enslavement of California Indians by Anglo-American vigilantes during the Gold Rush and after
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Formal enslavement of Indians finally came to an end in 1865 only because of the Fourteenth Amendment
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While technically admitted as a free state, California law only barred the enslavement of Blacks, not American Indians
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Under the surreal name the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians, any white male could legally enslave any Native, not just children but adults of any age, by getting him declared an “orphan” by the courts
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Much of the mining during the Gold Rush was done, not be Anglo-American miners, but by enslaved California Indians doing forced labor for Anglo-American miners
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Johan Sutter and his partners enslaved hundreds of California Indians
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Concentrated populations, disease, and overwork reduced California Indians from as high as one million to under 300,000 in less than 80 years
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California Indians had little history of organized warfare and thus were uniquely vulnerable to Spanish military power
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Mexican authorities did so as well, and many California Indians either went back to their homelands or ran the missions for themselves
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The next president, James Buchanan, replaced the three commissioners with a single Superintendent of Indians Affairs for the state
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) He was also a strong believer in slavery and the supremacy of whites over both Blacks and Indians
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Yet to claim that because three of these presidents were bumbling bigots that California Indians were preordained to be almost wiped out is false
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One of Lincoln's final private statements before his murder was that he was going to work towards bettering the situation of California Indians
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California Indians would not see a further substantial improvement until Franklin Roosevelt's Indian New Deal and then again under President Nixon (See Section Eight again
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California was admitted as a free state, though in practice that meant no slavery for Blacks, while Indians were widely enslaved
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) From American Indians to early Mormons to socialists to hippies, American elites have always demonized anyone who does not worship at the altar of wealth
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That is saying quite a bit, a worse record than Communist Cuba, or Guatemala with its repression of Mayan Indians
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But because of racist segregation, Black West Indians who made up almost all the laborers could not live in the white worker areas
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The Body Count: Genocide against Natives in all of the Americas killed between 75 million to 112 million American Indians out of a total population of 125 to 140 million in 1492
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It was an ideology of conquest or extermination against both indigenous groups, American Indians and Mexicans
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What: By his principled opposition to slavery (though he felt bound by the Constitution's recognition of it) Van Buren delayed both a war of aggression with Mexico to expand slavery and the genocide of California Indians that followed
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Genocide against California Indians killed 120,000 to 300,000
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What is far less known is that Emancipation enabled a Republican effort that freed California Indians as well
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The Republican Party of California, Lincoln's appointees and allies, brought an end to legal enslavement of California Indians
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Lincoln's record on American Indians, though limited by his focus on the Civil War, is a mixture of neglect, brute force, and attempts to bring better treatment for Natives
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Shortly before his death, Lincoln said to aides that California Indians had been very poorly treated and one of his next priorities would be doing more for them
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The court ruled the federal government was legally bound to treat Indians as wards of the state and provide healthcare, education and legal protection
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Indians could now sue the federal government when treaties were not honored
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What started Grant's Peace Policy was his disgust at the massacre of Indians
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He did not use enough troops or enough force to stop white racists from killing either Blacks or Indians
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Roosevelt's New Deal for Indians also brought self determination for Native tribes, leading to their economic success and longer life spans
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John Collier, Director of the Indian Bureau, formulated the New Deal for Indians
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The New Deal for Indians also ended forced assimilation in boarding schools that killed thousands of Native children and destroyed cultures and languages
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Farmers, farm workers, servants, merchant marines, and manual laborers were left out, which meant that a much higher number of American Indians, Asians, Blacks, and Latinos were not eligible
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In camp and on interminable marches, he studied the first language of the province, that of the Indians
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Today, it exhibits, however, a chronicle of vertiginous rows of jewelry, textile, colors, sounds, aboriginal gastronomy, fragrances and above all flowers, which the Indians consider a symbol of prosperity
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Regimented by the monks, he took well to military life (where even Indians, as the invaders referred to his People, were accepted as conscripts) and earned his commission on the battlefield
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Since the vast majority of Ladinos totally ignore Indians and would therefore never suspect one could be a narcotics detective, he was considered perfect for the job
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The exhibits carried Sylvia to the history of the early 1800’s when the racial makeup of the province experienced its first changes, as black fishermen of turtles settled the coast and intermarried with the native Indians
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Her approach, writing from the points of view of both whites and Natives, was groundbreaking at the time, and much of the hostility towards her argument came from the old guard, some who viewed Indians with openly racist contempt, and an even larger faction that admired Custer and hold him up as a martyr, an almost Christ like figure whose death was supposedly necessary to “tame” the west
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On some of the larger, with hilly interiors and waterfalls spilling into the bay, villages inhabited by Cuna Indians – who continue to live much the same as their ancestors for countless generations – could be seen
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One might wonder why those tragedies and not others? Surely the Irish in the 1840s, Chinese in the 1850s, Africans in the 1890s, and Haitians in 1937, all of whom died or were killed in huge numbers, deserve as much consideration for why a president did nothing as Blacks under slavery, California Indians, Holocaust victims, or Rwandans do
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Blacks, most Mexicans, and most American Indians in the south were pro-Union
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This is a look at how the American military influenced American Indians and how, in turn, Natives influenced US military tactics, symbolism, and basic training
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you see the horrid light of day, and you decide to get up, and you think it might be better to shave and shower so at least for the rest of the day you can present a face to the world that won’t bear much scrutiny from civilization, and you won’t appear the derelict you are, and the bars are not open yet at least not the ones near you-so as I was saying what you most loved to do was get in old Blackie and drive out to the coast and go in that self pump gas station next to Sea Bluff and run by the Indians from India
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Indians with turbans, Indians who are up early in the morning getting the bucks, and buy a cold six pack of Bud from the Indian, and then go next door to Sea
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It is possible that due to the type of philosophy they followed, Indians and Chinese did not resist the idea of monotheism when Catholic missionaries arrived in the land, in more modern times
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The Indians refused to help Mr
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They have no more manners than a pack of wild Indians
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These Indians in Amazonia
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The Indians of the New World were descendants from original hunters who crossed a “land bridge” from Asia probably in “waves,” during Ice Ages fifty and ten thousand years ago
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The thought crossed Jason’s mind, might the Indians have been “white men” before they became “red men”?
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Young Colonel Washington realized that the French alliance with the Indians had to be broken
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During the French and Indian War, the Indians
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The battles and atrocities between the Indians and the settlers, backed by the U
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It was the largest battle loss of an American force at the hands of the Indians
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But he was as hard on the southern Indians as he had been on the British
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President Lincoln intervened to reduce the number of executions of captured Indians, much to the chagrin of Minnesotans
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The part that was left out was the widespread attempt to herd the Indians onto reservations after the buffalo were nearly eliminated and their horses reduced
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The defeat of General Custer was a grand moment for the Plains Indians, but it was a moment that sealed their fate
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Jason wondered if the figure more accurately presaged the take of present-day casinos! Along with a counterproposal, President Andrew Johnson declared the Indians hostile
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One hundred and fifty Indians were killed and fifty wounded
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and the American Indians
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The schools at Riverside, California and Carlisle, Pennsylvania were construed to convert the Indians into members of the prevailing culture
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As opportunities and the generation of wealth in the opened land grew, the treatment of the Indians deteriorated even further
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Although the Indians were said to have lived in harmony with the land, many tribes were clearly territorial and hierarchies developed with the use of force
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The Indians were the descendants of the original hunters who migrated from Asia
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Pushing Indians from “promised lands” into reservations and deliberately stripping them of their culture by breaking the chain of their traditions and sending their children to the Indian schools, if not “ethnic cleansing” in the modern sense, was at least a cruel practice and a failed idea
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With the Indians in flight westward, might the settlers of the expanding new country have pursued the most enlightened policies ever conceived by a “conquering culture”? As
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carve out large land grants for the Indians complete with mineral and oil rights, allowing them to keep their culture(s) in parallel with the emerging America? Exceptional as that might have been for its time, historian Ellis tells us in American Creation, it almost happened, or at least it became a priority for President Washington in 1790
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He wrote the president saying the question of the new nation’s relations with the Indians must be clarified
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The Constitution’s only mention of the Indians rested with Article I, Section VIII’s provision that “Congress shall regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states and with the Indian tribes
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” Knox saw the Indians as foreign nations
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He convinced Washington that only the federal government, and not the states, had the authority to deal with the Indians and that the exterminative strategy of Indian removal east of the Mississippi went counter to the ideals of the Revolution, smacking heavily of European imperialism
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Cowboys, Indians, and Yankee aristocrats volunteered for the Rough Riders, sparing the military the need to train for horse and rifle