... were gifted with handkerchiefs and blankets. What they didn't know was that the items had come from a smallpox hospital and were infected with the disease, it then spread into their villages. This was the first germ warfare in American history. In 1609, Wahunsonacock of the Powhatan Tribe told soldiers at one of talks, "Why should you take by force that from us which you ... harder and harder for the Native Americans to hunt for food. The Europeans depleted the deer herds for the deerskins, which limited the annual winter supply of venison. Bison was shot and left to rot in the baking s...

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... religious spirits carved on them. The totem pole told a story of the history of the family. You could tell a family's importance by looking at their totem pole. Another way a family showed its importance was to have a potlatch. The inside of the house also had carved posts if the family was an important one. When a child was old enough to understand, the time had come to learn the history of the family. When it came to ... started moving west that the slaughter, unnecessary killing, of the buffalo occurred. Thousands of buffalo were killed for sport or to clear the land for the railroad...

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... worak" (what is recounted) (Ruoff 5). Besides the translations of oral stories and legends from early Native Americans come pieces written by Indian authors about history. From the 1850s to the 1890s, most of the works written by Indian authors were histories of tribes from the East and Midwest. This history of literature goes along with the history of the white migration across the United States. These books deal with policies that forced ... the Indians onto reservations and the children into schools ran by whites to make ... . Dualism is another part of writing because things in natur...

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... that the director, Kevin Costner was awarded a bronze buffalo by the director of The Natural Museum of the American Indian for helping to preserve the their history. Lake Randall, however, says that there has been more criticism than praise for this particular issue because of the inaccuracy of some details. For example, the film neglected to include certain details that were very much a part of the Sioux's way of life, such as the self-torture of the sun dance ... ritual and the common intertribal feuds, for ... ...

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