It began around 1805 when Lewis and Clark stumbled upon Nes Perces country (Wallowa Valley). ... Instead of the Indians running the whites out of their little country, the Nez Perces welcomed them with open arms. ... 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. ... He said, "There were a great many white people in the country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and white men could be separated. It they were to live in peace it w...

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The Puritans first made their way to the New World because of religious persecution which resulted in an "alienation" toward their country. ... 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. ... 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. ...

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One of the symbols that expresses most completely the Plains Indian concept of the relationship between human beings and the world of nature surrounding them is a cross inscribed within a circle. At the center of the circle uniting within a point the four directions of the cross and all the other quaternaries of the universe, is a human person. ...

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