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    indians


    1. The sound was turned down but images of Amazonian Indians smoking jungle grass and skinning an animal filled the room with an eerie glow


    2. 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


    3. 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


    4. 'Mate, you Indians are good at this emotional stuff


    5. 'You Indians have good talent, but the training - trust me on that mate


    6. Come to think of it, I’ve not seen too many documentaries on the Indians


    7. There are so many mistaken truths and outright lies about the Indians that prompt that wannabe phenomena


    8. 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


    9. “There is no glorified mystical euphoria that surrounds the Indians


    10. He dreamt of indians, out in the wild, hunting, feasting around a large bonfire, singing, and dancing the night away

    11. It’s all just another game of cowboys and Indians, and Ken has the biggest gun


    12. Not even the Indians


    13. 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


    14. I searched for the cassava root, which the Indians, in all that climate, make their bread of, but I could find none


    15. 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


    16. Quito, which had been but a miserable hamlet of Indians, is represented by the same author as in his time equally populous


    17. 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


    18. 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


    19. Both the Egyptians and Indians must have depended almost altogether upon the navigation of other nations for the


    20. There is a back trail left over from the Mingo Indians, who had a village on the river

    21. The Cowboys/Mercenaries had been attacked by a band of savage Indians


    22. Myself and my brother played cowboys and indians on it


    23. 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


    24. land acquired free and clear, as the American Indians had no part in the agreement with France


    25. He ate as all hungry Indians do; and Archer looked on in wonder and


    26. What: Mass killings and enslavement of California Indians by Anglo-American vigilantes during the Gold Rush and after


    27. Formal enslavement of Indians finally came to an end in 1865 only because of the Fourteenth Amendment


    28. While technically admitted as a free state, California law only barred the enslavement of Blacks, not American Indians


    29. 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


    30. 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

    31. Johan Sutter and his partners enslaved hundreds of California Indians


    32. Concentrated populations, disease, and overwork reduced California Indians from as high as one million to under 300,000 in less than 80 years


    33. California Indians had little history of organized warfare and thus were uniquely vulnerable to Spanish military power


    34. Mexican authorities did so as well, and many California Indians either went back to their homelands or ran the missions for themselves


    35. The next president, James Buchanan, replaced the three commissioners with a single Superintendent of Indians Affairs for the state


    36. ) He was also a strong believer in slavery and the supremacy of whites over both Blacks and Indians


    37. Yet to claim that because three of these presidents were bumbling bigots that California Indians were preordained to be almost wiped out is false


    38. One of Lincoln's final private statements before his murder was that he was going to work towards bettering the situation of California Indians


    39. 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


    40. California was admitted as a free state, though in practice that meant no slavery for Blacks, while Indians were widely enslaved

    41. ) 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


    42. That is saying quite a bit, a worse record than Communist Cuba, or Guatemala with its repression of Mayan Indians


    43. But because of racist segregation, Black West Indians who made up almost all the laborers could not live in the white worker areas


    44. 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


    45. It was an ideology of conquest or extermination against both indigenous groups, American Indians and Mexicans


    46. 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


    47. Genocide against California Indians killed 120,000 to 300,000


    48. What is far less known is that Emancipation enabled a Republican effort that freed California Indians as well


    49. The Republican Party of California, Lincoln's appointees and allies, brought an end to legal enslavement of California Indians


    50. 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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