One might actually wonder how the nations indigenous populations became "inferior" cultures on their own land, or how a nation could have committed such atrocities in the name of "progress". ... Before Columbus and the Europeans came to America there were over 300 languages spoken by the native americans, now only 8 indigenous languages of the area of the continental United States currently have a population of speakers in the U.S. and Canada large enough to populate a medium-sized town. Only Navajo still has a population of greater than 25,000 within the U.S. ...

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American expansion into the Oregon country was a crusade to convert the native population to Protestant Christianity, bring in more American settlers, and to eventually annex the area to America. ... This interest was mainly grounded in placing missionaries in Oregon to convert Native Americans to Christianity, and in stopping Catholic Canadian missionaries from operating in the same area, which was seen as a threat to eventual American annexation of the territory. ... The settlers brought an epidemic of measles that decimated the native population. ... In doing so, they nearly eradicated t...

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It also does not help matters that most of the people in these populations feel that the Popper's were hired by someone or some company to do research. ... Frank Popper stated after coming back from a conference in Saskatchewan, "A lot of the Canadian ranchers are mad at the government, but mostly because they thing setting up the park took too long," (Matthews 183). ...

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–French Canadians, Chinese, Coolies, utterly oppressed Negroes, imported Italians and Poles- all without any education, without any American pride of manhood, are being praised as the best laborers, as the veritable blessing to our varied and growing industry, as the corner-stone to our national wealth.... The introduction of new immigrants and the growth of large urban areas allowed previously localized diseases to spread quickly and infect larger populations. ...

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–French Canadians, Chinese, Coolies, utterly oppressed Negroes, imported Italians and Poles- all without any education, without any American pride of manhood, are being praised as the best laborers, as the veritable blessing to our varied and growing industry, as the corner-stone to our national wealth.... The introduction of new immigrants and the growth of large urban areas allowed previously localized diseases to spread quickly and infect larger populations. ...

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