... side by side. It became U.S. government policy to remove Indians to the unsettled territory in the west. Many tribes in the East were bribed, coerced, or forced to move to reservations west of the Mississippi River, leading to incidents such as the Trail of Tears in the late 1830's. The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of Native American tribes following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 passed by Andrew Jackson. This occurred as a result of the discovery of ... often cited the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois Confederacy as the model for the U.S. Constitution, supported Indian R...

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... be inferior to their own white race. They worked diligently to make enemies of the two groups as well as make them hate one another. In some areas, Native Americans eventually began to absorb the white European culture. Benjamin Hawkins, who was the Superintendent of the tribes south of the Ohio River at the time, strongly and forcefully encouraged several southeastern tribes to adopt chattel slavery in ... led warring women to dress like traders in a unanimous effort to get captives before the male warriors. The Cherokee in particular thought of slavery as the result of weakness in war...

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... . As Albert Boime says, "inevitably, the extermination of Native Americans is tied to the conquest of the wilderness and its transformation into an Edenic garden - The wild and dark area with the natives on the left contrasts with the right side of the painting, a light and open area occupied by the white Americans, which represents the "paradise regained - in which civilization inoffensively ... obstacle. The tracks divide the picture diagonally, with civilization on one side, and wilderness on the other. On the left, pioneers chop trees, erect houses and a school, while wagons are getti...

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... keeping with the "theory of the Bering Straits crossing" of Native American peopling in this Hemisphere, the findings of ancient remains in Washington State should be of no surprise, this would have been the path the Native Americans used when crossing the land bridge. In fact the Columbia River area contains some of the greatest variety and abundance of Indian artifacts in the United States. The reason the Kennewick Man's bones have attracted far more attention than other finds ... the Native Americans would feel threatened by what is happening as a result of the Kennewick Man issue? O...

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