• They thus copied the constructions made in this maritime base of the Gulf of Saint Laurent by the Vikings and Templières fleets which then went to South America and Mexico to trade with the civilization of the Andes and that of Central America. (fileane.com)
  • In South America and Mexico, present civilizations knew how to build stone cities with running water in houses. (fileane.com)
  • As Jefferson indicated, this vision was more than continental, because South America was never regarded as permanently off limits. (fff.org)
  • More generally, Latin America has been a US sphere of influence and playground for US invasions since the early 1900s - Lyndon Johnson's invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 and Bill Clinton's threatened invasion of Haiti in 1994 being two recent examples. (fff.org)
  • The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia, and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination and to the independent development of their nations. (ncsu.edu)
  • The period of Conquest of Latin America and the Caribbean - roughly between 1492-1570- was an organized, deliberate, physical elimination of entire peoples through brutal torture and death. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • As the brilliant Latin American scholar Fernando Baez [2] demonstrates, it is this destruction of our history that lies at the heart of the contradictions, the dependency and the exploitations that continues today in Latin America and the Caribbean: a continent that has been robbed of much more than just its rich resources, its peoples have been denied its collective memory and true identity. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • It must be noted that the Lemuria, which served as the cradle of the Third Root-Race, not only embraced a vast area in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, but extended in the shape of a horse-shoe past Madagascar, round "South Africa" (then a mere fragment in process of formation), through the Atlantic up to Norway. (blavatsky.net)
  • And it is so advantageously seated, that, by Acapulco and other Ports on the South Sea, they may maintain a communication and commerce with the Indian Isles and Territories, and with China and Japan , and on this side, by Porto Belo and others, hold correspondence with Europe and Africa . (uchicago.edu)
  • It is public knowledge that between the 1500 and 1900s, an estimated 12 million slaves were taken from their homes on the resource and culture rich continent of Africa and brought to the United States to work land that the Europeans in fact originally stole from the Native American people. (yale.edu)
  • The continent of Africa is rarely explored or explained in American Public Schools, let alone in a manner that is applicable to students or paralleled with ancestral studies with the belief that all the students in our public schools should be well versed in and proud of who they are in their history. (yale.edu)
  • The red man was the original possessor of this continent, the settlement, of which by Europeans sounded the death-knell of his sovereignty. (fullbooks.com)
  • After all, given a rich empty continent for vigorous Europeans to exploit (the Indians were simply a disagreeable part of the emptiness, like chiggers), any man of gumption could make himself a good living. (nybooks.com)
  • Today is the last day of the month of October - the month in which many countries celebrate "Columbus Day", the day supposedly Europeans "discovered" the misnamed continent of America, and tonight is Halloween when tradition says that spirits of the dead may roam. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Early feminists and Marxists, among others, used the Iroquois as a counterpoint to what they described as European-bred oppressiveness at a time when mainstream America was preoccupied with westward expansion. (ratical.org)
  • The Declaration of Independence of 1776 symbolizes the beginning of the "Indian Wars" and "westward movement" that continued across the continent for another century of unrelenting U.S. wars of conquest. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The precepts of manifest destiny, grounded in the twin beliefs of virtuous American institutionalism and the uplifting effects of agrarian republicanism, rode the wagon trails westward in advance of the destinarian belief in American greatness - the proverbial city on the hill of the colonial period began its move westward. (americanyawp.com)
  • With this in mind, even the term native American, as another example, may very well indicate someone who is native to America rather than a person who is ethnically Indigenous to the boundaries of the present-day United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • Knowledge of Iroquois and other native American societies and their political organizations would appeal to architects of European and American social and political movements much as they had helped shape the ideals of some of the United States' most influential founders. (ratical.org)
  • After receiving her PhD in history at the University of California at Los Angeles, she taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • The program of expansion and the wars against Native American civilization and the agricultural societies of the vast valley of the Ohio River and the Great Lakes region began before the Declaration with the French and Indian War of 1754-63, which was the North American extension of the Seven Years' War between France and Britain in Europe. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Some of the Native American peoples that lived in Ohio at that time included the Shawnee and Siouan-language speaking tribes. (worldatlas.com)
  • The extraordinary gathering occurred in the fall of 1682 (some accounts say June 23, 1683) under under a giant elm tree (the "Treaty Elm") at Shackamaxon-an ancient Native American meeting place along the Delaware River in present-day Fishtown. (hiddencityphila.org)
  • It featured a depiction of two men clasping hands: one large and with a hat (Penn) and the other smaller and hatless (a Native American). (hiddencityphila.org)
  • Unfortunately, white settlers after William Penn-including Penn's own offspring-did not respect Penn's fair treatment of the Lenni-Lenape and other Native American groups of Pennsylvania. (hiddencityphila.org)
  • I will do my best to use actual Indigenous Nation names such as the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota (Oceti Sakowin) or Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) or the Dine (Navajo) but will also use the words "Indigenous," "Native," "Native American," "American Indian," and "Indian" when appropriate, such as in quotations. (newpol.org)
  • And on this continent, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, men of English stock performed prodigies of cruelty to which parallels can be found in the history of the Inquisition alone. (fullbooks.com)
  • The Anglo-American settlers' violent break from Britain in the late eighteenth century paralleled their search-and-destroy annihilation of Delaware, Cherokee, Muskogee, Seneca, Mohawk, Shawnee, and Miami, during which they slaughtered families without distinction of age or gender, and expanded the boundaries of the thirteen colonies into unceded Native territories. (monthlyreview.org)
  • They are descendants of the Africans brought to America during the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries and reduced to slave labor. (blackpast.org)
  • Praise came fast, and then the backlash, especially against the claim that the nation's true founding should be dated not to the 1776 American Revolution but to 1619, when the first group of 20 to 30 enslaved Africans arrived in North America and were sold to Jamestown settlers. (thenation.com)
  • This group has no complete biological unity, but varies in color from white to black, and comprises a great variety of physical characteristics, since many are the off-spring of white European-Americans as well as of Africans. (blackpast.org)
  • Tamanend was soon regarded as the "patron saint of America" and later nicknamed "King Tammany" as an insult to King George. (hiddencityphila.org)
  • Métis of mixed ancestry originated in the mid-17th century when First Nations and Inuit people married European fur traders, primarily the French. (wikipedia.org)
  • The following year, on July 3, 1868, the tribal leadership signed the Fort Bridger Treaty, which affirmed that the newly established Fort Hall Indian Reservation would become the permanent home for the Shoshone and Bannock people. (sbtribes.com)
  • The primary purpose of the trip was to utilize past and present allies in the indigenous struggle to aid us in visiting a small, select group of other Nation s Missions and their Ambassadors to the United Nation to discuss the international character of treaties between my people, the Lakota, and the United States of America. (danielnpaul.com)
  • The Iroquois people also called Haudenosaunee people are organized into family, clan, nation and confederation. (fileane.com)
  • But by July of 1810, Clinton began to witness a thriving Indian economy with people drying fish, making wampum and raising children. (ratical.org)
  • However our present interests may restrain us within our own limits, it is impossible not to look forward to distant times, when our rapid multiplication will expand itself beyond those limits, & cover the whole northern, if not the southern continent, with a people speaking the same language, governed in similar forms, & by similar laws. (fff.org)
  • Under this Constitution the boundaries of freedom have been enlarged, the foundations of order and peace have been strengthened, and the growth of our people in all the better elements of national life has indicated the wisdom of the founders and given new hope to their descendants. (tufts.edu)
  • Under this Constitution our people long ago made themselves safe against danger from without and secured for their mariners and flag equality of rights on all the seas. (tufts.edu)
  • The first people to settle in Ohio were the Paleo-Indian people in about 13,000 BCE. (worldatlas.com)
  • This book is packed with information that kids will find fascinating-excerpts from actual wartime letters written to and by American and German troops, personal anecdotes from people who lived through the war in the United States, Germany, Britain, Russia, Hungary, and Japan, and gripping stories from Holocaust survivors-all adding a humanizing global perspective to the war. (chicagoreviewpress.com)
  • The first president urged Americans to render unto "that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be" "our sincere and humble thanks-for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country … for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence," evident in the nation's "tranquility, union, and plenty. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • especially considering this Island is sufficiently large to contain a numerous people, of a Northern and warlike descent, addicted to martial affairs both by Sea and Land, and advantageously seated to infest their neighbours both of the Isles and the Continent, and like to be a receptacle for Colonies of the same originals from Barbadoes and the neighbour Isles. (uchicago.edu)
  • Mikwon paid for Indian land with various goods, which Tamanend divided among his people. (hiddencityphila.org)
  • Yet the overwhelming majority of Americans continue to believe this fable, and the regular invocation of America's "unique" characteristics, which make us "better" than any other people who have ever lived and which, for reasons that are never explained, entitle us to direct events across the globe, is nothing less than a religious ritual. (blogspot.com)
  • In the past black people from african continent were cought and sold to America as slaves and they had to work on fields. (referaty-seminarky.cz)
  • 6 In addition to these known truths, it is accessible knowledge that the history of African-American people originates in the name. (yale.edu)
  • Among Indigenous people, the common name for the continent of North America-and the one I will use accordingly-is Turtle Island. (newpol.org)
  • Instead, Aboriginal people were dispossessed due to the legal fiction that the continent was terra nullius, or no man's land. (iall.org)
  • In 1962, Aboriginal people were finally granted the vote in federal elections, however, it was not until the historic referendum of 1967 that Aboriginal people were allowed to be counted and included as part of the population, thereby allowing for the removal in the Constitution of the impediment in s.127 to counting Aboriginal people in the official census. (iall.org)
  • I come to talk about some horrific things that have befallen Latin American and Caribbean people, but I also will talk about some extraordinary things that are making our America the most hope-filled region, a beacon for the planet's future. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • BlackPast is dedicated to providing a global audience with reliable and accurate information on the history of African America and of people of African ancestry around the world. (blackpast.org)
  • This is the Pearl of the Indian Ocean ,once an admired little land with very educated and generally well off people but today the beggar of the sub-continent. (colombotelegraph.com)
  • The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers, provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. (cdc.gov)
  • Wood and Oakes, especially, objected to Hannah-Jones's argument that the American Revolution was fought to defend slavery, and Wilentz, in a comment to The Atlantic , took exception to her remark that African Americans fought for their rights "largely alone. (thenation.com)
  • Indeed, in the eyes of the Founders, the American Revolution was largely a war between a mature empire and a nascent one. (fff.org)
  • For the terrible records of battle, murder, torture and death, of which the history of the early settlement of this continent is so largely made up, the white man and the Christian must be held chiefly responsible. (fullbooks.com)
  • The astounding truth of this matter is that the founding of the United States was largely unjust to the majority of those who occupied this nation. (yale.edu)
  • There are in the Unites States of America, fifteen millions or more of native-born citizens, something less than a tenth of the nation, who form largely a segregated caste, with restricted legal rights, and many illegal disabilities. (blackpast.org)
  • and especially the hard, continuous toil upon which the prosperity and wealth of this continent has largely been built. (blackpast.org)
  • Not satisfied with taking forcible possession of the soil, he took the first steps in that long, sickening course of treachery and cruelty which has caused the chronicles of the white conquest in America to be written in characters of blood. (fullbooks.com)
  • Let us remember some of that history because, in fact, it continues to impact us to this day: the pillaging of our America, the racism with which our peoples have been and are regarded, the misery under which many are still living, has persisted through Conquest, Colonialism and post-colonialism to this, the era of global capitalism. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes is a federally recognized sovereign nation located in southeast Idaho. (sbtribes.com)
  • It has come to represent the relationship between the executive and the legislative branches in a sovereign nation. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • Widely admired at the time and since, and not only at home, the constitution has become a touchstone of what for many are the signature values of India: a multitudinous democracy, a kaleidoscopic unity, an ecumenical secularity. (lrb.co.uk)
  • What sets Indian democracy apart from these is its demographic and social setting. (lrb.co.uk)
  • It is these magnitudes that make Indian democracy so remarkable a phenomenon, and the pride of its citizens in it legitimate. (lrb.co.uk)
  • The stability of Indian democracy came in the first instance from the conditions of the country's independence. (lrb.co.uk)
  • ¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 John Louis O'Sullivan, a popular editor and columnist, articulated the long-standing American belief in the God-given mission of the United States to lead the world in the peaceful transition to democracy. (americanyawp.com)
  • All three of these claims pushed many Americans, whether they uttered the words 'manifest destiny' or not, to actively seek the expansion of the democracy in both word and action to the great detriment of those, most notably American Indians, already occupying the physical lands in question. (americanyawp.com)
  • The new religion of American democracy spread on the feet and in the wagons of those who moved west and sought to reconfigure their social worlds to the new realities of a new landscape, imbued with the hope that their success would be the nation's success. (americanyawp.com)
  • For most Americans, full recognition of this reality is impossible, for it renders maintenance of the American fable of "responsive democracy" all but impossible. (blogspot.com)
  • and a great nation, which today ought to be in the forefront of the march toward peace and democracy, finds itself continuously making common cause with race hate, prejudiced exploitation and oppression of the common man. (blackpast.org)
  • The iconic colonial protest slogan "taxation without representation is tyranny" marked the surge of rebellion against British control, but it did not tell the whole story, considering what the tax was for: to pay the cost of housing, feeding, and transporting soldiers to contain and suppress the colonies from expanding further into Indian territory. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In the American colonies, he was noted for standing for the politics of peaceful diplomacy, and he consequently became an all-American folk hero identified and venerated throughout the fledgling nation for both his nobility and his native roots. (hiddencityphila.org)
  • As a result of his travels in Iroquois country, Clinton concluded that Native Americans have "all the indications of an incipient civilization. (ratical.org)
  • As a result there is almost no area of American civilization in which the Negro has not made credible showing in the face of all his handicaps. (blackpast.org)
  • the eastern half of the continent was "ethnically cleansed" of Native nations by 1850, through forced relocation to "Indian Territory" west of the Mississippi. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Various laws, treaties, and legislation have been enacted between European immigrants and First Nations across Canada. (wikipedia.org)
  • The treaties were international instruments between two independent nations, unambiguous and unequivocal in defining the territories of the indigenous nations involved it covered an area the size of the contemporary country of Guatemala. (danielnpaul.com)
  • Over the decades, guided by the Constitution, treaties signed with tribes, and custom, the Federal government has recognized 566 tribes. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • A whole new generation of activists has learned the long history of the United States continually breaking treaties with the Indigenous Nations-stomping upon their self-determination any time the government and corporations demand access to Native lands to extract energy and raw materials. (newpol.org)
  • The climate justice movement is coming to an understanding that treaties must be upheld and extended, as demanded by Indigenous Nations, based on their traditional territories. (newpol.org)
  • There is also an effort to recognize each Indigenous group as a distinct nation, much as there are distinct European, African, and Asian cultures in their respective places. (wikipedia.org)
  • The referendum was rejected along with the proposal for a republic, and even though a majority of the States went ahead and amended their Constitutions to recognize the Indigenous peoples, expert panel reports, national consultative conventions and other engagement has not resulted in furthering the cause of Indigenous recognition within the Constitution. (iall.org)
  • The reason is that there have occurred many changes in the equations between nations as well as civilizations. (thestatesman.com)
  • Modern Indigenous nations and communities are societies formed by their resistance to colonialism, through which they have carried their practices and histories. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • A revolution is underway among the Indigenous nations of North America. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • Hundreds of different social organizations existed on Turtle Island prior to the arrival of capitalist markets, but one common feature was that most Indigenous Nations treated the land as something held in common. (newpol.org)
  • This paper, written under the title, "U.S. Settler-Colonialism and Genocide Policies," was delivered at the Organization of American Historians 2015 Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO on April 18, 2015. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • The form of colonialism that the Indigenous peoples of North America have experienced was modern from the beginning: the expansion of European corporations, backed by government armies, into foreign areas, with subsequent expropriation of lands and resources. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • Native nations and communities, while struggling to maintain fundamental values and collectivity, have from the beginning resisted modern colonialism using both defensive and offensive techniques, including the modern forms of armed resistance of national liberation movements and what now is called terrorism. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • Rebuilding Native Nations provides guidelines for creating new governance structures, rewriting constitutions, building justice systems, launching nation-owned enterprises, encouraging citizen entrepreneurs, developing new relationships with non-Native governments, and confronting the crippling legacies of colonialism. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are located on the Fort Hall Reservation in Southeastern Idaho, between the cities of Pocatello, American Falls, and Blackfoot. (sbtribes.com)
  • Currently, 97% of the Reservation lands are owned by the Tribes and individual Indian ownership. (sbtribes.com)
  • The Tribes inherent right to self-governance has been in place prior to the European arrival on the North American continent. (sbtribes.com)
  • The Tribes continue to exercise inherent and treaty reserved rights, and operate under the terms of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes' Constitution and Bylaws. (sbtribes.com)
  • TREATY WITH THE EASTERN BAND SHOSHONI AND BANNOCK, 1868Articles of a treaty made and concluded at Fort Bridger, Utah Territory,on the third day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, by and between the undersigned commissioners on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs and head-men of and representing the Shoshone (eastern band)and Bannock tribes of Indians. (sbtribes.com)
  • The council was established under the tribes' Constitution·& Bylaws , which was approved by the tribes and ratified by the federal government in 1937 under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. (sbtribes.com)
  • The message is timed precisely - just a few days after the State of the Union address from the president of the United States - and it reaffirms the sovereign status of nearly 600 tribes and nations. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • Native Americans resisted across the continent and many tribes disappeared in the ensuing wars. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • In 1919, 75 leaders of southern California tribes founded the Federation of Mission Indians, The group adopted the slogan "Human Rights and Home Rule. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • With more than 250 tribes and member, NCAI is the largest to represent recognized Indian nations. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • In the course of that war, Anglo-American settlers intensified their use of counterinsurgent violence, which the Anglo settler elite dubbed "savage wars," against Indigenous peoples' resistance to their incursions into the territories of the Ottawa, Miami, Kickapoo, and the confederations identified with Pontiac's leadership of the Great Lakes region, spreading to the Illinois and Ohio countries. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Tamanend (the "Affable One" in the native language) partnered with Penn ("Mikwon") to bring about the bold accord in which Quaker settlers and local Native Americans would live together peacefully in Pennsylvania. (hiddencityphila.org)
  • Indian conflicts, especially in the relatively fertile Utah Valley south of Salt Lake City, began soon after settlers arrived and continued throughout the Civil War and into the post-war years. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • This morning, in this building, I will add to my French nationality a new, supplementary identity: I will become an American citizen. (city-journal.org)
  • Although the equality of each citizen before the law is the rock upon which the American Constitution rests, economic equality has never been an American ideal. (nybooks.com)
  • Many Indigenous theorists now consider "modes of relationship" a more useful concept than "modes of production" when talking about what Winona LaDuke, a citizen of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation, has called the co-evolution of Indigenous peoples and their environment and surroundings. (newpol.org)
  • Little did they anticipate, that when taught to think and feel as the American citizen, and to have with him a common interest, they were to be despoiled by their guardian, to become strangers and wanderers in the land of their fathers, forced to return to the savage life, and to seek a new home in the wilds of the far west, and that without their consent. (uh.edu)
  • Four centuries later, in 1776, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams drew on the Great Law to draft the US Declaration of Independence, as did the fathers of the US Constitution in 1787. (fileane.com)
  • But a group of liberal historians reacted harshly as well, among them Princeton's Sean Wilentz, who, along with four other esteemed scholars-James McPherson, Gordon Wood, Victoria Bynum, and James Oakes-sent a letter to the Times demanding a retraction of the claim, made by Hannah-Jones, that "one of the primary" causes of the American Revolution was that colonists "wanted to protect the institution of slavery. (thenation.com)
  • When I first came to New York in 1975 to help establish the UN office of the International Indian Treaty Council, we were in the midst of an indigenous revolution. (danielnpaul.com)
  • Produced by the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy at the University of Arizona and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, this book traces the contours of that revolution as Native nations turn the dream of self-determination into a practical reality. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • For nations that wish to join that revolution or for those who simply want to understand the transformation now underway across Indigenous North America, this book is a critical resource. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • Veterans of the American Revolution preferred having a residence in Ohio. (worldatlas.com)
  • ¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 The Young America movement, strongest among members of the Democratic Party but spanning the political spectrum, downplayed divisions over slavery and ethnicity by embracing national unity and emphasizing American exceptionalism, territorial expansion, democratic participation, and economic interdependence. (americanyawp.com)
  • The major narrative to which I have devoted a number of essays -- a narrative which is profoundly false both in its general outlines and in every detail, and one which has been and continues to be literally lethal in its effects -- is the tale of "American exceptionalism. (blogspot.com)
  • The staff of the National Congress of American Indians gather at the organization's new headquarters, the Embassy of Tribal Nations, in the heart of the diplomatic enclave in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of the National Congress of American Indians. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • A fter ratification of the United States Constitution, the political ideas of the Iroquois and their influence on the American mind persisted for most of the nineteenth century. (ratical.org)
  • One important part of the process that was overlooked was the ratification of the state's constitution. (worldatlas.com)
  • The ratification of the Ohio Constitution took place on May 19, 1953. (worldatlas.com)
  • 1. Could Indians and white Americans peacefully coexist? (uh.edu)
  • [4] References such as this helped America to develop an identity distinct from the British parliamentary tradition. (ratical.org)
  • To make Slaves and Drudges to the American Tracts. (uchicago.edu)
  • Of those 12 million slaves, only 10 million made it to the United States alive and by the 1800s only a stifling six percent of that original number had made it to North America and survived. (yale.edu)
  • To be impressive, however, is not to be miraculous, as Indians and others still regularly describe the political system that crystallised after independence. (lrb.co.uk)
  • This belief that God has specially blessed America has been widespread in our history. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • Some nations, specially Chinese and Italian keep their traditions and languages and live in small communities. (referaty-seminarky.cz)
  • Fifty tribal leaders met in Denver, CO in 1944 to establish the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the oldest national native organization. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • As the erstwhile President Trump asked Europe: what was the need for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? (thestatesman.com)
  • The American Public Health Association is a worldwide organization of public health professionals that conduct public health research and establish standards for public health practices. (cdc.gov)
  • The Great Law which Binds: it comprises 117 articles and defines the functions and prerogatives of the fifty chiefs or royaneh who sit on the Council of Nations, as well as the number of royaneh per nation. (fileane.com)
  • The Referendum Council will advise on progress and next steps towards a referendum to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution and report back by June 2016. (iall.org)
  • The 1783 Treaty of Paris resulted in the British ceding control of the American lands to the US. (worldatlas.com)
  • Second, the lands on the North American continent west of the Mississippi River (and later into the Caribbean) were destined for political and agricultural improvement helmed by American example. (americanyawp.com)
  • And We do further strictly enjoin and require all Persons whatever who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any Lands within the Countries above described or upon any other Lands which not having been ceded to or purchased by Us are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid forthwith to remove themselves from such Settlements. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The unspeakable brutality and duplicity - the acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide, as we say today - were crimes, not merely against individuals, but also against whole societies and nations. (fff.org)
  • Our nation was born in genocide, when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. (thenation.com)
  • However, an even greater genocide against the indigenous peoples of this continent is "controversial" or denied, instead of outwardly repudiated. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • 1947) W.E.B. DuBois, "An Appeal to the World : A Statement of Denial of Human Rights to Minorities in the Case of citizens of Negro Descent in the United States of America and an Appeal to the United Nations for Redress. (blackpast.org)
  • Our nations agreed to peace at a treaty negotiation at Fort Laramie. (danielnpaul.com)
  • The eagle is grasping a wampum belt symbolizing the renowned "Treaty of Amity and Friendship" between William Penn and Tamanend and his Indian colleagues. (hiddencityphila.org)
  • The Treaty of Amity was reputedly agreed upon at the riverside location that is today Penn Treaty Park, about two miles north of the Tamanend Statue. (hiddencityphila.org)
  • While the legendary treaty itself was probably an informal unwritten pact, it did engender relatively little strife between the Quaker newcomers and the Lenni-Lenape (later known to the English speakers as Delaware Indians) living in the region. (hiddencityphila.org)
  • Only Australia fails to recognise the sovereignty of its first nations by way of a treaty. (iall.org)
  • It has been stated that apart from a change in the Constitution the inclusion of a treaty would also bring about a resolution to the existing problem - while constitutional recognition sits within the 'framework of government', a treaty could allow for Aboriginal sovereignty. (iall.org)
  • In the words of the oath, we cease to be subjects of foreign powers in order henceforth to "support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States. (city-journal.org)
  • Often, the Iroquois League's ideas were welded to the Classical imagery that was so evident in the first decades of the American Federal period. (ratical.org)
  • Pakistan was for decades a favoured ally that significantly lived off American aid, but no longer. (thestatesman.com)
  • This combination, which began in the late nineteenth century, gathered force in the two decades following 1900, and was firmly cemented in place by World War I and then the New Deal, resulted in the creation of a class made up of the American elites. (blogspot.com)
  • Under this Constitution twenty-five States have been added to the Union , with constitutions and laws, framed and enforced by their own citizens, to secure the manifold blessings of local self-government. (tufts.edu)
  • ¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 In every age of the world, there has been a leading nation, one of a more generous sentiment, whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity, at the risk of being called, by the men of the moment, chimerical and fantastic. (americanyawp.com)
  • After the war for independence but preceding the writing of the US Constitution, the Continental Congress produced the Northwest Ordinance. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • In 1777, during another trying time in American history, the Continental Congress issued the first official Thanksgiving Proclamation. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • By subjecting the North to the same sort of invasion the South had been subjected to - in essence, bringing the war home - Lee hoped to increase this sentiment and force the North to negotiate a settlement. (trevorloudon.com)
  • American settlement in Ohio was influenced by the American Revolutionary War and the formation of the United States. (worldatlas.com)
  • A dislike of economic equality is something deep-grained in the American Protestant character. (nybooks.com)
  • Before he became an evangelical for independence from Great Britain, Benjamin Franklin proposed a partnership between England and the American colonists to help spread the enlightened empire throughout the Americas. (fff.org)
  • As an "ongoing initiative," The 1619 Project "aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative. (thenation.com)
  • The first democratic confederal constitution in human history. (fileane.com)
  • Thomas Jefferson - "the most expansion-minded president in American history" (writes Gordon S. Wood) - set out a vision of an "Empire of Liberty," later revised as an "Empire for Liberty," and left the presidency believing that "no constitution was ever before as well calculated as ours for extensive empire and self-government. (fff.org)
  • Of all the characters who figure in the dark history of Indian warfare, few have attained greater notoriety, and none has been more persistently villified than the subject of this sketch. (fullbooks.com)
  • African history, for instance, makes so much more sense if you know what the continent is like. (exodusbooks.com)
  • It is my hope that the history of World War II, rendered accessible to younger students in Richard Panchyk's readable account, will inspire another generation of Americans as we wage a new struggle against the enemies of freedom. (chicagoreviewpress.com)
  • The North and South Poles become exciting routes to learning about science, geography, and history. (chicagoreviewpress.com)
  • Nineteenth-century America and the world of Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, come to life as children journey back in time with this history- and literature-laden activity book. (chicagoreviewpress.com)
  • Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history," declared George W. Bush, "to be a model to the world of justice. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • Assuming that one knows even a minimal amount of history (which, I grant, is far too often a completely unjustified assumption today, even and especially with regard to the "best educated" Americans and the members of our ruling class), and if one considers this mythology with any degree of honesty, its inconsistencies, outright contradictions, and numerous points of incoherence quickly become apparent. (blogspot.com)
  • At the opening of the last installment , I summarized certain common errors regarding American history committed by many liberals and conservatives. (blogspot.com)
  • 5 Many of these students are taught from an adapted history workbook that paints the settling of America as just and righteous with their ancestral heritage beginning with the role of slavery in the United States. (yale.edu)
  • African American students should be taught their history prior to slavery. (yale.edu)
  • I dare to answer for them: that Columbus was a mass murderer, an unrelenting racist, who carried out one of the most complete and extensive genocides in history upon the original peoples of our America. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • In conversation, this would be "I am Haida," or "we are Kwantlens," in recognition of their First Nations ethnicities. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's not that no one traveled before the 19th and 20th century, or outside the North American continent-it's just that because the new nation was so vast, and there were so many natural barriers (the Mississippi River, the Grand Tetons and Great Smokey Mountains, the Mojave Desert), new forms of getting from here to there were not only a good idea, they were a necessity. (exodusbooks.com)
  • Readers will find accounts of an 1861 attempt to court-martial a Virginia-born commander for treason, battle reports from the January 1863 Bear River Massacre, documents from the army's high command authorizing Governor James Doty to enlist additional Utah troops in October 1864, and evidence of Colonel Patrick Edward Connor's personal biases against Native Americans and Mormons. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • The slavery was abolished in 1865 after the war between North and South (1861), but they were discriminated for a long time. (referaty-seminarky.cz)
  • The art of teaching Iroquois Indians, at the sources of the first constitution. (fileane.com)
  • These Iroquois were thus the first Native Americans to build more comfortable and secure buildings than their tents' rallies. (fileane.com)
  • Six nations of the Iroquois group, decided to gather around an oral law, the Great Law that Lies, to end their incessant conflicts. (fileane.com)
  • Indigenous peoples in Canada comprise the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aboriginal peoples as a collective noun is a specific term of art used in some legal documents, including the Constitution Act, 1982, though in most Indigenous circles Aboriginal has also fallen into disfavour. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Paleo-Indian Clovis, Plano, and Pre-Dorset cultures pre-date the current Indigenous peoples of the Americas. (wikipedia.org)
  • First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples of all backgrounds have become prominent figures and have served as role models in the Indigenous community and help to shape the Canadian cultural identity. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, "Aboriginal peoples of Canada" includes First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. (wikipedia.org)
  • From the High Plains states and Prairie Provinces to the southwestern deserts, from Mississippi and Oklahoma to the northwest coast of the continent, Native peoples are reclaiming their right to govern themselves and to shape their future in their own ways. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • American Indian sovereignty is as old as the Constitution, but over the centuries it has eroded and nearly perished, as European and American conquerors rolled over Indian Country. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • Three hours later, on the stroke of midnight, 14 August 1947, a date and time stipulated by Hindu astrologers, Nehru - in defiance of any earthly notion of time, announcing that the rest of the world was asleep: London and New York were wide awake - assured his broadcast listeners that their 'tryst with destiny' was consummated, and had given birth to the Indian Republic. (lrb.co.uk)
  • Third, Americans who supported expansion believed that God and the Constitution (the political manifestation of divine perfection) ordained an irrepressible destiny to accomplish redemption and democratization throughout the world. (americanyawp.com)
  • She then created the Holy Twins: Pökanghoyah and Palöngawhoyah, who were placed at the north and south pole as guardians and who keep the world in balance up to the present day. (silvercircle.org)
  • The delegation of Cuba to this assembly, first of all, is pleased to fulfill the agreeable duty of welcoming the addition of three new nations to the important number of those that discuss the problems of the world here. (ncsu.edu)
  • The organized political struggle for greater sovereignty began in 1911, when a group of Native Americans met in Ohio to establish the Society of American Indians. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. saw something essential about our nation: Imperial expansion west over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution's relationship to slavery. (thenation.com)
  • The fact is that the Indian is very much what his white brother has made him. (fullbooks.com)
  • It is also a proud moment for America to elect a woman as Vice-President, whether she be white or coloured. (thestatesman.com)
  • In this multicolored assembly, representing all the continents, I am a rare white European. (city-journal.org)
  • That was the goal of independence, with both the seasoned Indian killers of the Revolutionary Army and white settler-rangers/militias using extreme violence against Indigenous noncombatants with the goal of total domination. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The document drew on British, American and White Dominion precedents for an original synthesis, combining a strong central executive with a symbolic presidency, a bicameral legislature with reserved seats for minorities, a Supreme Court with robust provincial governments, in a semi-federal structure denominated a union. (lrb.co.uk)
  • Similarly, there is an equal and perhaps even larger number of white Americans who also descend from Negroes but who are not counted in the colored group nor subject to caste restrictions because the preponderance of white blood conceals their descent. (blackpast.org)
  • If however the effect of the color caste system on the American Negro has been both good and bad, its effect on white America has been disastrous. (blackpast.org)
  • We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. (thenation.com)
  • The jurisdiction of this Constitution now covers an area fifty times greater than that of the original thirteen States and a population twenty times greater than that of 1780. (tufts.edu)
  • Americans: Native Americans, american Indians, are today just small part of american population. (referaty-seminarky.cz)
  • Many - but assuredly not all - Americans of the time would have cheerily agreed. (fff.org)
  • Jonathan Edwards, America's greatest theologian, expected a "great work of God" to soon begin in America. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • ¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 O'Sullivan and many others viewed expansion, particularly to the West, as necessary to achieve America's destiny and protect American interests. (americanyawp.com)
  • The prolongation of that great continent into the North Atlantic Ocean is in no way subversive of the opinions so widely held as to the site of the lost Atlantis, and one corroborates the other. (blavatsky.net)
  • The province and city of Puerto Príncipe are officially known as Camagüey, their original Indian name, which has practically supplanted the Spanish name in local usage. (wikisource.org)
  • There are over 600 recognized First Nations governments or bands with distinctive cultures, languages, art, and music. (wikipedia.org)
  • We are one of only three sovereigns listed in the U.S. Constitution, alongside the federal and state governments. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • The conflict in Ukraine has prompted several level-headed commentators to point out that, of all governments, the U.S. government is in no position to lecture Russia about respecting other nations' borders. (fff.org)
  • As Dwight Eisenhower put it, "The American experiment has, for generations, fired the passion and the courage of millions elsewhere seeking freedom, equality, [and] opportunity. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • He is the author of "Faith and the Presidency From George Washington to George W. Bush" (Oxford University Press, 2009) and "Heaven in the American Imagination" (Oxford University Press, 2011). (wthrockmorton.com)
  • Utah and the American Civil War presents a wealth of primary sources pertaining to the territory's participation in the Civil War-material that until now has mostly been scattered, incomplete, or difficult to locate. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • And for this unjust view of his character American historians are not wholly to blame. (fullbooks.com)
  • Once the initial impact was made,on July 1st 1863 in a battle between Brigadier General John Buford's Union cavalry division and two corps of Union infantry and two large Confederate corps that attacked from the north and northwest under General Richard Ewell, the armies came together and the battle was on. (trevorloudon.com)
  • There is always some gap between the ideals of a nation and the practices that seek or claim to embody them. (lrb.co.uk)