Louis"(Brown), or "a Kiowa man who refused to relinquish the shirt which had smallpox on it beside Columbia River" (Mayor, 60), but the truth is not like that. ... Peter's up the Missouri River from St. ... It carried smallpox inside and appeared "among the southern-most tribes along the river" (Brown) before it actually speared out to the "Mandans at Fort Clark and tribes north" (Brown). ... There is another important version of Smallpox Blankets which claimed that "Jim Beckwourth, a Black mountain man adopted by the Crow tribe of the upper Missour...

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Most of the northern part of Brazil is low-lying and veined by the mighty Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon is the largest river in the world. The native people of Brazil lived in the forests and along the rivers, hunting, fishing, and gathering fruits and nuts. ... Children start school at six to seven years old, and are supposed to go on the age of fourteen or fiftieth. ... Children have to pass examinations every year. ...

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On April 21, 1836, Houston conducted a surprise attack against Santa Anna's army near the San Jacinto River. ... The southern boundary of Texas had always been the Nueces River and still was to Mexico, but the United States extended the boundary to claim all the territory north of the Rio Grande (Mexican-American War (Causes)). During the revolution President James Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to occupy the disputed territory in March 1846, having instructed him to advance aggressively until he neared the town of Matamoros on the Rio Grande River (Lillegard). ... During this time, bot...

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This day started with all the same good intentions of those today but ended with only a few Native Americans signing the treaty which allowing for the removal of all Indian peoples to the west of the Mississippi River. ( Brill, The Trail of tears: The Cherokee journey from home.) ... Many of the old and the children died on the road. ... There, unarmed and innocent men, women, and children were murdered by scared soldiers, who never took the time to find out what this was all about. ... And then all American children know that The only good Indian is a dead Indian. ... This day started with al...

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There are also the Eastern Woodlands who relied heavily on lakes and rivers. ... There were a number of trade routes along the rivers, which led to a heavy reliance on imports and exports. ... We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.... It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. ... The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live uponnothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away....

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Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. ... His tribe, the Pima Indian tribe, lived on a reservation located south of Phoenix on the Gila River. ... With no privacy or father figure to keep all the members of the family together, Jeanne lost sense of her heritage as did many other children in the camps. ...

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Nor was it during "Operation Wetback- in the 1950s which primarily focused on Mexicans being deported back to Mexico, along with their American born children, which were technically American citizens (Operation Gatekeeper: -New Resoures-1). ... There was also an increased anti-immigrant sentiment in California demonstrated by the passage of Proposition 187, which denied benefits to illegal aliens, including the deprivation of Mexican children attending public school (American Friends Service Committee). ... The winter after the introduction of Phase II, 16 migrants, including children, froze...

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To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River. ... (The relatively close linguistic relationship between Yoruba and Igala has led some scholars to suggest that Yoruba country may have been settled by migrants who came from the region where the Igala now live, near the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers.) ... Lagos, the home of our urban sample children, is the centre of a greater metropolitan area with a projected population in 1991 of 10 million (Federal Republic of Nigeria and UNICEF 1990). ...

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During the late 1700's, two great revolutions occurred, the American Revolution and the French Revolution. These two historical events happened at the same time, but had a great number of differences and very little similarity. When French Revolution occurred, it turned into a very violent and blood...

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On May 8th, veterans of the Vietnam War whose lives or children and wives lives were affected by the use of Agent Orange during the war accepted a settlement in their class action suit. ... In some cases the dioxin was thought to have been the cause of nerve damage and major birth defects in the unborn children of the veterans. ... The lawyers had also speculated that the number of claimants including wives and children could reach nearly forty thousand people. ...

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Romanticism, is a movement in the literature of virtually every country of Europe, United States and Latin America . It lasted from about 1750 to 1870. This epoch is characterized by the reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach, freedom of thought and expression and idealization of ...

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Technological progression in audio and video recordings, record-breaking pop acts, and high profiles for heavy metal and new age music highlighted 1987. Business boomed as sales of compact disk (CD) players rose rapidly and record companies issued many new albums and reissued old albums on CD. New ...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. It is im...

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A third of slaves on plantations were children and another fifth of adults were not involved in field tasks. ... These states were better suited for the production of cotton, and with the development of river steamers and railroads, the costs of moving was reduced and became more feasible. ...

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Today's economy of the world involves various sectors that are involved in the delivery of facilities that enhance the production of other sectors of society. Many nations across the world have been separated by their individual resources possessed. Some of these resources include minerals such as oil, gas and other fluids that create a basis for production in many economies. The majority of the minerals are located deep within the earth's crust. These resources are mostly natural and require man-made means to extract them for manipulation by various organizations. ...

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They went through Indian villages ruthlessly attacking tribes, capturing their children and putting them to death. ... Many tribes in the East were bribed, coerced, or forced to move to reservations west of the Mississippi River, leading to incidents such as the Trail of Tears in the late 1830's. ...

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It is known that the first written text on the use of medicinal plants is about 4000 years old and appears in a clay small board in the Sumerian culture, an antique group of people who lived at the south of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, which would be equivalent to the current Iraq territory. ... Plant-based cures that have followed the children of this continent on their voyages across oceans and to different lands, whether it was by choice or force, force being the main reason. ...

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Washington Monument Architect: Robert Mills Location: Washington, D. C. Date: 1848-1885 Building Type: Monument Construction System: Masonry Cut Stone Climate: Temperate Context: Neo-Egyptian Fact: At 555 feet tall, the highest all-masonry tower in the world. It is 55 feet wide at the base. Notes: Alone among the Founders of the United States George Washington earned the title "Father of his Country" in recognition of his leadership in the cause of American independence. ...

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NICARAGUA HISTORY Nicaragua takes its name from Nicarao, chief of the indigenous tribe then living around present-day Lake Nicaragua. Although it is the largest republic in Central America, has a relatively tiny population of approximately 4.5 million people. Nicaragua is bound on the north by Honduras, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by Costa Rica, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. It is slightly larger than the U.S. state of New York with an area of 130,000 square kilometers. The capital city is Managua. ...

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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese led their first attack on American soil by bombing the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack was the turning point for America's role in World War II. On December 8, Americans anxiously sat around their radios, ready to hear President Roosevelt address the...

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American Foreign Policy / POLS 4690 A paper submitted to Dr. Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12, 1817. The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to Europ...

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