The French were suspicious of the Indian culture, as they did not understand it, yet the French did not impose their culture upon the Indians. The French treated the Indians as equals to themselves. ... The French accepted the Indians over time and eventually even married Indian women. The French had such strong ties with Indians that they employed them as auxiliaries in several of their wars. ... The French economy greatly benefited from their good treatment towards the Indians. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Plight of The North American Indians The history and culture of the American Indian is sadly misrepresented because of culture biases and inaccurate reports. ... America has much to learn about the heritage of our American Indians. ... These diseases "spread like wildfire among Indian populations."... For example Indian hunters hunted animals based on demand and not on need as they once did depleting the animal populations and causing competition for hunting grounds and creating inter-tribal wars. ... Convincing the Indians that their wa...

• Word Count: 3899
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• Grade Level: High School

The most important cause of the war of 1812 were the economic sanctions put upon the US by the French and British. ... Yet again, this war the British abandoned their Native Indian counterparts. ... Some large events that had a large impact on the war was the death of Tecumseh and the Battle of the Thames where the Native Indian people were overrun by the Americans. ... While the Napoleonic Wars were going on in France, Canada was left unprotected for some time. Then after the war in France came to an end the British were able to protect Canada more thoroughly. ...

• Word Count: 2017
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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 1774, Cornstalk knew that war with the whites would be inevitable. ... Edmunds did a wonderful job writing about the traditional way of Indian life and how trading with the early French and British traders changed the culture. ... Tecumseh had to have many meetings with the officials at the fort to assure them that the large number of Indians weren't there for war. ... The war had begun. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the West, British were giving the Indians weapons so they could stand up to the white settlers. ... As a result, British violations of American neutrality rights on the high seas led to President Madison declaring war against Britain "War of 1812. ... With the ongoing battles between Great Britain and France in the early 19th century, the newly formed United States found itself thrust in the middle of this struggle. ... In 1810 Macon's Bill No. 2 reopened American trade with all nations, including France and Britain as long as the respects U.S. neutral rights and stop seizing s...

• Word Count: 736
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• Grade Level: High School

Thomas Jefferson admired and lauded the American Indian. ... The only Indians he saw, as a boy, were "civilized". ... It was then contended, by France's Count Buffon, that all flora, fauna, and men of the New World were degenerate. ... In secret messages to his cabinet and Congress, Jefferson outlined a plan for removal of all Native Americans east of the Mississippi to make sure that this land would never fall to the French or the British. ... William Apess, a Native American of mixed Pequot and white parentage who fought for the United States in the War of 1812, became a Me...

• Word Count: 2097
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• Grade Level: High School

(Brinkley, p. 44) During the French and Indian War, the tension between the English and Native Americans began to further develop. Nearly all of the North American tribes sided and fought with the French against the English. ... The Iroquois were hesitant to fight the French for a known fear of them. ... After the American patriots won the war, they (Americans) slaughtered 96 Delaware Indians for the attack on a white family. ... Indians took Ft. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Jefferson has a specific instruction for Lewis and Clark when they were to run into an Indian tribe. " In all your intercourse with the natives treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit; commercial dispositions of the U.S of our wish to be neighborly, friendly and useful to them." ( Barth, 21) The reason Jefferson told Lewis to treat them as people and not savages is because Jefferson felt t...

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Even though he just wanted to hurt the British and French economically, he hurt the Americans more. ... This became known as the Black Hawk War, in which the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by Black Hawk, defended their ancestral land whilst being forced out. ... Jackson's Indian Removal Act caused this war to occur, so he was the cause of these Indian deaths. ... This entire event of destroying the national bank was called the Bank War. This wasn't a bloody war, but a political one. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is obviously not a desire for anyone to become a captive of war, however this was the case for hundreds of colonists both French and English during the colonization of the "New World". ... They do not know that the Abenakis, allies to the French, are with in striking distance of their town. ... He discovers how some have been ransomed by the French and others allowed to return home. ... Why would Eunice decide to abandon her former Puritan ways and adopt a new Mohawk Indian way of life? ... It is interesting however to analyze the differences in raising childr...

• Word Count: 965
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• Grade Level: High School

American Indians, or Native Americans first came to North America during the last ice age. ... Other Europeans, for example, the French and the Dutch, came to the New World in search of profit. ... Shinnecock Indians used the island for fishing and hunting, but they did not live there. ... None of the tribes were allowed to enter the war on their own. ... It also fought on British side in the war against France, which lasted from 1754 to 1763. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Starting with the Indians and ending with the Filipinos. ... As a quickly established power in the beginning after such battles as the French and Indian and Mexican war the United States earned respect. ... During this time period the U.S. offered regulations such as these to the Indians and the Mexicans. ... The Indians, were promised land, set aside to be theirs, the Mexicans freedom and liberation. ... Much like the case of Indian removal the Indian interfered with Manifest Destiny and the Filipinos interfering with the power involved with the connection of the two great oceans. ...

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It was the site of several decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War. ... South Carolina seceded from North Carolina in 1729, before the War of Independence. ... Michigan originally was an Indian country. ... Oklahoma was in 1866 a land allocated to Indians by the government. ... New Mexico is a historical place where the whites defeated the Indians. ...

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The main character is Benjamin Martin, played by Mel Gibson, who is a hero of the French/Indian conflict. ... However, he gets pulled into American revolutionary war when a brutal British commander impairs his second oldest son, Gregory Smith. ...

• Word Count: 522
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Their ancients, several generations back to about 400 years ago, were all immigrants from Europe, such as British, French, and Spanish. ... According to the statistic punished by government called "American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2011", the population of Native American in 2010 is about "2.9 million were American Indian and Alaska Native only, and 2.3 million were American Indian and Alaska Native in combination with one or more other races" (American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2011). ... For example, back to 1637, the ancie...

• Word Count: 2968
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• Grade Level: High School

Irving was called the literary vagabond in England, Holland, France and Italy and frequently wrote using the creative tools of fiction to comment on historical background and events of American history. ... "He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians."... The story makes several references of pre and post situations of the American Revolutionary War. ... The effect of the Revolutionary War on this typical villager was to a certain extent significant, but wasn't influential ...

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Prior to his presidency, Jackson was very active in war and politics. ... There was no specific name of his domestic or foreign program, but in foreign affairs Jackson scored two diplomatic triumphs, one with Britain and one with France, that ended long-standing disputes with those countries. In 1834 the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) was created as a permanent homeland for the native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River. ... The Black Hawk War of 1832 and the Seminole War that was renewed in 1835 represented the last efforts of the eastern Native Americans to retain their a...

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France had previously owned the land west of the Mississippi, and then sold it to Spain. ... The Corps of Discovery soon meet the Sioux Indians but avoided conflict with them because the Corps clearly explained that they wanted to make peace. ... While the Corps camped for the winter Chief Sheheke told them about the land to the west where the Shoshone Indians lived. ... While staying near the Mandans during the winter, Lewis and Clark met a French-Canadian trapper that lived among the Mandans named Toussaint Charbonneau. ... The tribes knew that no war party would have a women and child along...

• Word Count: 1816
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School