" The concept created by the Puritans that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" in reference to the ones Natives were not "saved" peaked during the late nineteenth century with a "nearly genocidal assault on Native American civilization (Olson & Wilson, 1986). In addition to missionaries forcing religions onto the Native populations, ranchers would often encroach on land reserved for Native American use. For example, in 1867 a treaty gave joint reservation land of nearly three million acres to the Kowas, Comanches, and Kiowa-Apaches. This treaty closed the land...

• Word Count: 2111
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We have been taught since elementary school that the pilgrims journeyed away from Europe to escape from the oppression of the British king to be free in the new land of the Americas. ... What right did we have to take that land, when it was owned by several Native American tribes whom travelers, hunters, and journalists transformed from human beings with various cultures into savages all because of the different ways they lived, their speech, their styles of clothing, and probably more so, their skin color. ... Their race has been almost wiped away into extinction, because it was either move i...

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Ironically, the same story the white Christians connected with in motivating themselves for separation from England was used by the slaves in motivating them for their eventual release from their current oppressive ruler ship.7 While white Christians saw themselves as the New Israel they were at the same time enslaving people who considered themselves the current Old Israel, waiting to be delivered from their oppression through faith in God.8 For white America, similarities to convince them of their relation to the Israelites consisted of "the bondage in Egypt, the rescue at the Red Sea, the...

• Word Count: 1954
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He then goes on to charge Leopold's regime of the following crimes: fooling Africans into signing over their land, having military bases cause massive amounts of death and devastation, unnecessary cruelty to prisoners, lying about the construction of hospitals and schools, rape, and slavery (ironic since the fazade Leopold put on was indicative of being anti-slavery). ... Once there, he found massive amounts of dead workers and destroyed villages. ...

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A white farmer once promised freedom and a piece of land to his slave; nevertheless, the farmer was not willing to give fertile land to the slave, therefore, he tricked the slave into thinking that the richest and most fertile land lies in the hills. The slave believed him and took the land from him, he even let himself believe that the reason for calling the place the Bottom is that when God looks down from heaven, the Bottom is the first place he sees (Morrison 5). ...

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Sometimes running from and sometimes working with the police authorities, Jake Lo eventually comes to recognize the importance of the American presence in China through the figure of his dead father who had been working for the U. ...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
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