The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Efforts at compromise failed, and both sides prepared for war. ... The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was containment - to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction. The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. ... Previous regional independence movements such as the Gr...

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As a result, Indian attitudes towards the courts and litigation as a strategy are changing. ... 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. ... The Canadian legal system, in the years after World War II, recognized no Indian rights as such. ... If Canadian law had given Indians rights, Indi...

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It was first invented by the Native Americans well over a century ago and then adapted to be part of the French and Canadian cultures as well. ... To the natives, lacrosse is still known as "the creators game" because it was also used to help prepare them for war. ... The violent play in this league resembles the way lacrosse was first played in Native American tribes, when the strategy was to disable as many players as possible. ... In conclusion, lacrosse has grown from being a violent sport invented by the Indians to prepare for war, to a game that is known as one of the northeast's be...

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Thus Brazil fought no war of independence. ... It is said to be less than one hundred and fifty thousand Indians now. ... The people of Brazil come from essentially three main cultural backgrounds: these are the natives (Indians), the European immigrants (mainly Portuguese), and Africans. ... The average Brazilian has a interesting family tree for example there may include a Portuguese great-grandfather, a native Indian grandmother, a slave grandfather, a German father, and so on. ...

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