Long before the white man set foot on Canadian and Saskatchewan soil, the Indians, or rather the Native Canadians had been living in North America. ... The outburst of society driven stereotyping and racism appeared in no time, and is still prominent in Canada and Saskatchewan. ... When the white man came to Canada for the first time, the natives looked at them with reverence, instead if arrogance and opportunity. ... Still today the natives struggle for independence, and still today roadblocks are thrown in front of them at every turn by Canada's white dominated society. ... How ma...

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One might actually wonder how the nations indigenous populations became "inferior" cultures on their own land, or how a nation could have committed such atrocities in the name of "progress". ... Before Columbus and the Europeans came to America there were over 300 languages spoken by the native americans, now only 8 indigenous languages of the area of the continental United States currently have a population of speakers in the U.S. and Canada large enough to populate a medium-sized town. Only Navajo still has a population of greater than 25,000 within the U.S. ...

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American expansion into the Oregon country was a crusade to convert the native population to Protestant Christianity, bring in more American settlers, and to eventually annex the area to America. ... This interest was mainly grounded in placing missionaries in Oregon to convert Native Americans to Christianity, and in stopping Catholic Canadian missionaries from operating in the same area, which was seen as a threat to eventual American annexation of the territory. ... The settlers brought an epidemic of measles that decimated the native population. ... In doing so, they nearly eradicated t...

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"Within fifty years of the Spanish arrival, the population of the Taino natives dwindled from some one million people to about two hundred."" ... Most of the population was present in Peru and Mexico, where the majority of silver was produced. ... Soon, fourteen percent of Virginia's population was made up of enslaved blacks. ... Instead of finding this route, Hudson discovered parts of the Americas and present-day Canada. ... The French also established settlements in the Mississippi Valley, present-day Canada, and along the Gulf coast. ...

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As well as, French Colonists in present day Canada and the allied Native Americans. ... The French began influencing present day Canada through a healthy trade practice; unlike the Spanish settlers in the South, the English settlers in Massachusetts and Chesapeake Bay. ... This led the Jesuits to establish a strong presence in Huron territory and throughout most of eastern Canada. ...

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It also does not help matters that most of the people in these populations feel that the Popper's were hired by someone or some company to do research. ... Frank Popper stated after coming back from a conference in Saskatchewan, "A lot of the Canadian ranchers are mad at the government, but mostly because they thing setting up the park took too long," (Matthews 183). ...

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For example, "Bird migrations made their biggest contribution to Indian food supplies in April, May, September, and October when Canada geese, brants, mourning doves, and miscellaneous ducks passed though" (Cronon 40). ... "Whether edges became forest or fields, the eventual consequences were the same: to reduce – or sometimes, as with European livestock to replace- the animal populations that once inhabited them. ... Because of the fur trade animal populations in New England were overhunted. ...

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Essay on History of Pollution in Naylor's Run Outside of our very on school is a stream ecology. This stream is called Naylor's Run and it is located in Naylor's Run Park. This stream has a long and rich history. Throughout this history the stream was exposed to pollutants. These pollutants ...

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–French Canadians, Chinese, Coolies, utterly oppressed Negroes, imported Italians and Poles- all without any education, without any American pride of manhood, are being praised as the best laborers, as the veritable blessing to our varied and growing industry, as the corner-stone to our national wealth.... The introduction of new immigrants and the growth of large urban areas allowed previously localized diseases to spread quickly and infect larger populations. ...

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–French Canadians, Chinese, Coolies, utterly oppressed Negroes, imported Italians and Poles- all without any education, without any American pride of manhood, are being praised as the best laborers, as the veritable blessing to our varied and growing industry, as the corner-stone to our national wealth.... The introduction of new immigrants and the growth of large urban areas allowed previously localized diseases to spread quickly and infect larger populations. ...

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With the large bison population, natives used unique ways to lure and kill them. ... Finally, the Subarctic and Arctic Native Americans originated from the modern day Alaska and Canada regions where it is very treeless and freezing cold weather. ... In the early eighteenth century slaves made up more than seventy percent of the population in only South Carolina, and those slaves lived on holdings of more than twenty-five (Kolchin, 31). As the eighteenth century went on, slaveholdings became much more important and slaves started to consist of almost eighty-five percent of the population. ...

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