Soon enough, the English realized they wanted more land and wanted to be rid of the Indians for good, so they went back to open wars to disperse any tribes that remained. ... Both the French and the Dutch were living with the Indians and dealing with the same trials and tribulations as everyone else. ... The French people, although using their Indian companions as real life puppets by befriending them and having them do what the French wanted, kept them innocent throughout the early stages of this countries history. While the French told the Indians what to do, it was really the Indians...

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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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Namely, the British in the north, the Spanish in the southeast and Mexico, the French control of New Orleans and the areas west of the Mississippi and the Native Americans of all areas. ... The US bought New Orleans, Louisiana and Florida from Spain and France. ... Before the Americans began moving westwards, the Indians lived in peace and harmony. As soon as the Americans moved west, the Indians no longer lived the lives' they had before. The Americans forced the Indians to move on to reservations, to which they had no attachment. ...

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