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. ... Indians were "uncivilized" and "savages." ... The Canadian legal system, in the years after World War II, recognized no Indian rights as such. ... If Canadian law had given Indians rights, Indians had rights. ...

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Introduction Jamaica, from the Arawak Indian word Xaymaca, meaning "land of springs" or "land of wood and water", became a colony of Spain in 1494. ... Jamaica Prior to 1494 Prior to the arrival of Columbus, the islands of the West Indies were inhabited by two distinct races of Indians. ... Upon reaching Jamaica, he immediately instituted the very same system of slavery that had systematically exterminated thousands of Indians in Cuba and Haiti, with similar results. His successor, Don Pedro de Esquimel continued and expanded the enslavement of the Indians, and in response the Arawak...

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