This paper focuses on the oppression of American Indians in the U.S. during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. ... The arrival of Europeans to the Americas in the seventeenth century marked a major change in the natives' society and culture. ... This idea of, "otherness," led to centuries of oppression and discrimination against native people. ... The Euro-American view of the American Indian is historically significant because it shaped the attitudes of those who would later construct Indian policy in the nineteenth century. ... In the early nineteenth centu...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. ... The nineteenth century saw the continental expansion of the United States and a transportation revolution that resulted from it, as well as industrialization, astonishing population growth and urbanization. ... The Hunter's Return was specially made for New York art collector George Austen, and the painting w...

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The second part of the paper will deal with the images the early settlers developed of the inhabitants of the New World and how these images have evolved throughout the centuries. ... This is understandable, since the story dates back to the beginning of the seventeenth century, a time when no written records were kept of events or people's lives, certainly not in the Native American culture. ... Moreover, in the four centuries that have passed since the birth of Pocahontas, numerous legends and myths have sprung up around her, which makes the efforts to bring the real Pocahontas into foc...

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Unfortunately they failed to recognize a non-materialistic wealth i.e. spiritual, cultural and intellectual the Indians had achieved over centuries. ... Unfortunately they failed to recognize a non-materialistic wealth i.e. spiritual, cultural and intellectual the Indians had achieved over centuries. ... Disease has been the number one killer of the North American Indians from the fifteenth through the twentieth century. ...

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