... the Utes in 1879. In all these cases, although the government and military would hold the prisoners without food, the main cause of death was in fact disease. Ironically, Captain Henry Wirz, a Confederate officer during the Civil War, was executed after Union prisoners at his camp died due to the same conditions that the Indians had suffered at their camps, yet ... more tribes, New France was completely extinguished thirty years later. The Dutch first began interactions with the Indians along what is now the Hudson River, named after the Dutch explorer Henry Hudson. He began to set up t...

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... settlers could not simply fight their way into land, but had to negotiate for it. As settlers moved into occupied Indian Territory, they received military protection. Governor of Indiana William Henry Harrison threatened, bribed and purposely intoxicated Indians to get them to move out of the land. Tecumseh, who was a Native American leader, opposed this invasion, and organized an Indian Confederation ... ...

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... schools came from experiments with Indian prisoners of war. While in charge of Indian prisoners from the Red River War of 1874-75 at Fort Marion, Florida, U.S. Army Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt instituted a program of discipline, work, and education that included cutting the prisoners' hair, clothing them in army uniforms, assigning them to manual labor, and schooling them in Christianity and ... ...

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