In chapter one page nineteen, the bishop describes to Mark that "...the myths are the village and the winds and the rains...the river...salmon...owl...even the mountain goat" are the village. ... Mark watched as the tribe struggled with the dilemma of sending their children off to the schools of the "white man". These children were being taught the ways of another people and this greatly troubled the elders of the tribe. ... Craven even says that the elders are glad to see the children come home from school and happy to see them leave. ... Mark tried very hard to become "one" of the tribe...

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For example, in one of the lines it says, "They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house." ... I can't even begin to imagine what I would do if I had to stand there and watch what these barbarians do to these people especially the women and children. They raped the wives of the village rulers and took the newborn infants and threw them into the rivers to drown or be eaten by the sharks and other man eating ...

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Before she was captured, she was a very religious person, for she was the wife of the Reverend Joseph Rowlandson and the mother of their children. ... Her house was set on fire, forcing her and her children to exit. ... On the Sixteenth Remove she struggled while crossing the Banquang River and the Indians laughed at her. ... She prayed for her children, and God answered her prayers by reuniting all them together again. ...

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The excuse of Manifest Destiny was used when the Indians were being removed from the Mississippi River area. ... This was a place made by the white Americans, west of the Mississippi River for the Indians to live. ... He stated that the land was not as fertile as the land further west, and states specifically that, "It is much better sometimes to do what does not please us just now, if we think it will be best for our children" (Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee 370). ...

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Before long, the war was brought to Mary's home, where she and her children were dragged away into the wilderness as captives by the Indians. ... If she could keep her beliefs and stand against the black creatures, than she would be accepted as one of God's children. ... In those examples she can not understand how the Indians were able to flee from the army or why God gave them the strength to cross the river while the English had to find a crossing downstream. ...

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The chief asked if they could have until the fall season due to their livestock being scattered all over the Wallowa Valley and the river being too high to cross. ... When the soldiers had them cornered they tried to fight back but the chief and the warrior men eventually surrendered, while the non-warrior portion of the tribe (including women and children) ran for the Canadian border. ...

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