When the United States Congress devised the Northwest Ordinance in 1787, the vast amount of land between the Allegheny River and the Mississippi River was opened up. ... On October 15, 1788, John Cleaves Symmes was granted a charter to search and survey the land between the Great and Little Miami Rivers. ... On November 18, 1788 Benjamin Stites led a party of 26 settlers to the opposite side of the Ohio River to a site about one mile west of the Little Miami River. ... On December 28, 1788 Mathias Denman along with 25 other settlers settled on the land opposite of the Licking River, which they...

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This book forces us to face the dark side of our American history and how far the colonials went to fulfill their Christian manifest destiny. ... Since there are two sides to every story, Brown clearly shows us one we rarely see. ... He spends all of his time making alliances with the other tribes and in 1675 attacks 52 settlements, destroying 12 of them, but being destroyed in the process. ... In 1865 the settlers tried to invade Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, in the Powder River Invasion. ... Along with these attacks there were other villages attacked the same way. ...

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Wallace also explains how racists white people treated the Native Americans and forced them to leave the east and head west of the Mississippi river. ... In the late 1830's, the Indian tribes of the east were leaving one after the other. ... Right after the Choctaws headed west, the Chickasaws made the journey and were finally past the Mississippi river about three years later. ... If he had to pick on side and write about it, I would guess he would favor the Indians, only because of the way Jackson had them treated and forced off their land. ... I would recommend this book to oth...

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They attended this mission not knowing what to expect, travel to new places, and face war with other tribes and other nations, traveling in the west. ... " ( Barth, 67) On June 29, 1805 Clark and his party were traveling across the Great Falls of the Missouri River when all of a sudden there was a down pour that made the river very strong and powerful. ... "The swiftness of the current wheeled the boat, broke out toe rope and was nearly over setting the boat, all hands jumped out on the upper side and bore on that side until the sand washed from under the boat." ( Barth, 86) . ... In addit...

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The excuse of Manifest Destiny was used when the Indians were being removed from the Mississippi River area. ... This was a place made by the white Americans, west of the Mississippi River for the Indians to live. ... Also in 1863, " the governor of Colorado Territory and other officials came to Conejos A treaty was signed there, giving the white men all the Colorado land east of the mountaintops, leaving the Ute all the land west of the divide" ( Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee 367). ... In the early morning, when the soldiers were asleep, the Navaho " attacked the for from three sides. ...

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This book places the reader on the side of the Shawnee Indians in the time period just before the revolution up and up to the middle of the War of 1812. ... In 1779 the Kentuckians decided it was time to fight against the Indians and they sent a mounted militia to attack Chillicothe, a Shawnee town on the Mad River. ... To make a long story short, the Indians that heard the Prophet speak would tell other Indians about it, and the message ended up traveling to other tribes. The village was moved to a position between the Wabash and Tippecanoe rivers and the name was change to Prophetstown. ... ...

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Unfortunately there is a close association between achieving superiority and causing hurt to others. ... After some time of European co inhabitance, it became obvious that the Whites were eventually planning to take over all of the land, as they frequently asked for more and more, moving slowly through the Indian's territory and up to the Hudson River. ... Others turned to Christianity and education as offering hope for survival." ... With this knowledge, the Indians elected to side w...

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The chief asked if they could have until the fall season due to their livestock being scattered all over the Wallowa Valley and the river being too high to cross. ... In grade school I remember learning about the Indians and whites and their conflicts with each other but I don't quite remember it being presented from an Indian standpoint but more so from a white or European point. It is always important to be able to hear both sides of a story and you can be sure that somewhere in the middle would be the truth. This essay presented me with that other side. ...

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Cooper can envelop this situation convincingly because it is history extending into his own lifetime: during the 1820's and 1830's the United States policy of Removal was continually shifting the Indians to areas west of the Mississippi River. ... The novel, never meant to be realistic in any strict sense, is of course filled out with an excess of other customs and motifs. ... It is the intention of universal brotherhood, of loving acceptance of others with their individual "gifts". ... Cora and Uncas are buried side by side, and all the white characters except Hawkeye leave....

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There were two causes for war to breakout amongst these two sides. ... Others were not so fortunate and were savagely burned to death inside the house or brutally butchered as they came running out of the burning inferno. ... After Mary finishes her piece she snatches the other piece from the baby's hand and eats it herself. ... In those examples she can not understand how the Indians were able to flee from the army or why God gave them the strength to cross the river while the English had to find a crossing downstream. (pgs. 104-106) Mary Rowlandson and many other English captives we...

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Throughout time one could see the two sides unit together as one and one could also see them collide with disastrous ends. ... On the other hand, Tecumseh's younger brother, Lalawethika, wasn't well liked. ... He fought at Frenchtown, Raisin River, Fort Meigs, and Fort Stephenson. ...

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We seem to do this because the other option of considering the other side would rock our fundamental beliefs so much, that we fear that we will never be able to return to what we once had. ... Here, Rodriguez's education is creating a preconceived notion for him, that his parents are not as good as others because they can not speak English as well. ... When the educator responded: "Let's say for the sake of the argument, that all the men on earth were to die, but that the earth itself remained, together with trees, birds, animals, rivers, seas, the stars... wouldn't all of this ...

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DDT is a very active, broad-spectrum pesticide, particularly effective against beetles, moths and butterflies, flies, and mosquitoes, it controls insect-vectored human diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, river blindness, elephantiasis, epidemic and murine typhus, and bubonic plague. virtually eradicated malaria from more than "20 countries populated by more than 1 billion humans. ...

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