The land grab and expansion west placed all native Americans into harms way. ... The quest for more land and gold were the driving force behind the destruction of the Native Americans. ... The tribes were remove from their native homelands and force into reservations. ... Many Indians claimed different ethnicity, and only later to returned to identify their true heritage. ... This hurts the image of Native Americans, but I still support the issue if it betters the quality of life for Native Americans living of reservations...

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The groups include women, African-Americans, and Native-Americans. ... Indian wars broke out between European settlers and Native-Americans. ... In the Black Hawk War, an effort by tribes to return to their homelands ended in a terrible slaughter. ... The Native-Americans did not end up much better than the slaves at first. ... The settlements moved farther inland and missionaries were invited to return and establish schools. ...

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They then returned to St. ... The expedition started up again on April 7th, 1805, continuing west with only thirty-three members, the others returning to St. ... They spent their winter at the fort and prepared for their return to St. ... After that they returned to St. ... Lewis and Clark's journals of the expedition give a description of the natural resources and native peoples of the west and contain information on many scientific matters. ...

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Columbus dubbed these and other peoples of the New World Indians', and unlike their North American counterparts (which are now more fairly and politically correct referred to as Native Americans) we still call them indigenous people. ... The pirates were mainly runaway men that included criminals, refugees and escaped slaves who saw no point in returning to their native lands. ... Fray Pané's accounts were mainly of the religious traditions and customs of the Taíno people, as a friar commissioned not only to make critical observations about the religion he was studying, mo...

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Jefferson has a specific instruction for Lewis and Clark when they were to run into an Indian tribe. " In all your intercourse with the natives treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit; commercial dispositions of the U.S of our wish to be neighborly, friendly and useful to them." ( Barth, 21) The reason Jefferson told Lewis to treat them as people and not savages is because Jefferson felt that the men would be showing the Indians that Americans will treat the native Indians better than the British, Spanish and French. Lewis also gave the Nati...

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