To say all the Spanish people were horrible is in fact a nasty thing to say; there were some people under the Spanish crown that wanted fair treatment of the natives. ... (Knaut 154) The diseases introduced into the Indian communities would force the natives to become more dependent upon the Spanish; albeit, the Spanish would exploit this fear through religion and tribute. ... These external struggles as stated above caused the Pueblo culture to almost disappear, but one internal struggle between the different sects of the Pueblos helped incite a revolt in 1680. ... The raids by the A...

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Spain began its settlement of North America with St. ... Despite the Native American's resistance the Spanish ultimately prevailed. ... Those that made it through winter had the help of Native Americans who had forged ties with New France for their own benefit. ... After a smallpox outbreak in 1640, many Hurons looked to the Jesuits for help as the Jesuits had immunity to the disease. ... There presence helped solidify an alliance between the Native Americans and New France. ...

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These boundary issues and fears would help the supporters, who wanted to expand the United States borders, to push for acquiring new territories in North America. ... The Lewis and Clark expedition, along with the help of Sacajawea and her husband Toussaint Charbonneau, explored much of this Louisiana territory. ... In 1818, Andrew Jackson went into Spanish controlled Florida and took over Pensacola under the guise that it was to protect American's from Seminole attacks, and not for land acquisition, however, in 1819 Spain would give Florida to America with the Adams-Onis Treaty. The Uni...

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Jefferson feared that the Spanish would block the route to New Orleans and then America wouldn't have any way of trading. ... All this was to hope that the Indians will trade with the Americans and not the British or Spanish. ... Lewis also found interest to hear that the Shoshoni Indians dislikes the Spanish because they would not trade guns with them. "The reason that the Spanish refused to trade with them is because they said the Indians would probably shoot themselves." ( Barth 131) But the Shoshoni's were angry since the Spanish wouldn't trade anything for guns it made t...

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They could direct commerce in ways that helped them also compel Africans to wage wars that might otherwise not have been waged. ... The belief was strong among the first missionaries [who] wanted to protect the new believers at any cost from contact with the, in their eyes, godless Spanish colonists." ... After the discovery of Americas, The emperor of Spain, King Charles V declared Indians as subjects of Spain due the belief that they were innocent children of God. ...

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It's good to note that, Christopher Columbus, a Portuguese citizen approached the King of Spain and asked for a ship to sail around the world, and find the shortest route between Europe and India. ... His gross miscalculation led to him landing on the Americas, and since he did not want to be found wanting over his inadequacy of sailing from Europe to India, he decided to rename the Native Americans as, 'American Indians' and write his letters back to the Kingdom of Spain as to have found 'the Indians'. ... This makes them heavily dependent on the rest of the count...

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This later helped the generations to come with how to deal with the whites. ... It seems that when Cortes is describing the Native Americans in his letter to King Charles I of Spain he almost sounds disgusted, like they are scum of the earth. ... He is just some white guy that the King of Spain picked to find more about the new world. ...

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In Wisconsin Chippewa tribe children learn the language of their ancestors with the help of computers. ... In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain in search of a sea route to Asia. ... Spanish settlers arrived in North America in the early sixteenth century. ...

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These Spanish settlers believed that they had discovered America, after all, despite thousands of years of Indian inhabitance on the same land. ... In many societies, hunters observed rituals that helped them maintain respectful relationships with the animals they hunted. ... At the same time, the Iroquois was mobilizing for a massive counterattack on the Huron, with the help of the Dutch. ... The settlers were desperate for assistance, and found the Powhatan Confederacy readily available to help. ...

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Within United States History, there has been some horrible discrimination upon certain races of people. At the trail of tears native Americans were persecuted against heavily. Until 1828 the federal government had Cherokee rights to their land and in that same year Andrew Jackson was elected preside...

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After the war, filibustering, another tactic of U.S. territorial expansion, was also driven against Spanish Florida, Mexican Texas, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean Islands. ... This empowerment of women's rights helped trigger the first movements in the 1840s. ...

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France had previously owned the land west of the Mississippi, and then sold it to Spain. ... The Mandan were kind and gladly helped the Corps find a place to stay the winter. ... Sacagawea was a great help to the expedition. ...

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