Due to the very fact that aboriginal tribes were treated as sovereign nation states, able to sign treaties of peace and war or trade and land agreements, gave them immediate rights. ... In 1763 New France was ceded to the British Crown. ... "Thomas Johnson and others had bought land from the Piankeshaw Indians in 1775. The area was originally part of the Indian Territory under the Royal Proclamation of 1763. The Indians then surrendered their lands to the U.S. government. ...

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Modern historians see even the famous treaties with the Iroquois confederacy not simply in terms of rights, but as part of British political strategies designed to deal with the French and with the other tribes further inland. ... When the British defeated the French, Indians could no longer play one colonial power off against another. ... Indians were "uncivilized" and "savages." ... The Canadian legal system, in the years after World War II, recognized no Indian rights as such. ... If Canadian law had given Indians rights, Indians had rights. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For some Latin American Countries, colonial rule was tolerated because the mistreatment of the population was eventually being attributed to an emerging class status system of mixed races of Indian and African slaves and the Spanish. ... And to obtain the greatest amount of wealth possible it was necessary to mine the metals as well as war, steal, and trade in order to secure your wealth and class position. ... In the Requerimiento authored and applied in 1514 by King Charles I of Spain, it was written if the Indians did not comply to the demands placed upon them that " we will enter your ...

• Word Count: 1046
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The French later began to trade goods for various furs to be sent back to France where such items were highly adored. ... In many cases if not for Indian assistance in agriculture, deforesting, and the providing of food many more would have died. ... Ultimately Europeans took the final step in their selfish behavior and took Indians as slaves, created war and plagued them with disease. ... When natives refused to give anymore to these new comers, they started wars killing many and taking some as slaves. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Having been portrayed in literary criticism as a giant fish, a grotesque monster, an American Indian, an African slave, his incarnation changes from "a savage and a deformed slave" to the "quintessential colonial victim". ... They pointed out, like Indians, Caliban initially viewed the newcomers as god and was friendly to them, but repaid with abuse; he originally owned the land but was soon dispossessed. ... Caliban was no longer just an American Indian, he also became the reflections of the African slave and the European wild man; or the blend if several American Indian types. ... In contras...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many natives who resisted the occupation of Spanish died as a result of wars and battles. ... The continuous decade long pressure by the priests forced Spanish government to take ineffective measures to stop Indian slavery. ... So they largely depended upon Indian population as they easily adapted to mountains and were considerably cheap. ... The Spanish and Portuguese empires had to spend hefty amounts to protect the ships containing gold and silver against pirate attacks by French, Dutch or English. The flow of silver and gold into Spanish and Portuguese empires supported the administration,...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On the other hand, during the wars of independence in Latin America, it was very common for Iberians to intermarry with native peoples, some including Indians and Africans. ... Using the term "Hispanic- includes many other groups in Latin America who don't have any sort of connection to Spain or Portugal, namely the Indians. Indians despise the term "Hispanic-, as it connects them to the people and ethnic groups that tried to take their culture away in the past. The term "Latino- is just as useless, in the sense that it accounts for many other ethnic groups other than just Latin Americ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Quite frankly the British were just very fearful of the Aboriginals and the power they held over the English especially after seeing war between the United States, and the Aboriginals. ... The Indian Act The Indian act was created in hopes of destroying all that was left of Native culture and to instill in them a new identity, an English identity. ... That is how the Indian Act was created in 1876. ... The Indian act was in no way good for the aboriginals because it only gave the government more opportunity to try and control and take advantage of them. ... The Canadian Government wanted the...

• Word Count: 2135
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate