• During the Presidency of Jackson (1829-1837) and his successor Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) more than 60,000 Native Americans from at least 18 tribes were forced to move west of the Mississippi River where they were allocated new lands as part of an ethnic cleansing. (wikipedia.org)
  • The southern tribes were resettled mostly in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). (wikipedia.org)
  • The movement westward of the Native American tribes was characterized by a large number of deaths occasioned by the hardships of the journey. (wikipedia.org)
  • Native American tribes and the Whig Party opposed the bill, as did other groups within white American society (e.g. some Christian missionaries and clergy). (wikipedia.org)
  • Legal efforts to allow Indian tribes to remain on their land in the eastern U.S. failed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Throughout the 17th and 18th century during the Beaver and French and Indian Wars, the greatest number of and most powerful tribes tended to side with the French, though other tribes such as the Iroquois supported the English for various strategic reasons. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite the adoption of white cultural values by many Indians and tribes, the United States government began a systematic effort to remove Native peoples from the Southeast. (wikipedia.org)
  • This great family includes a large number of North American tribes, extending, from near the mouth of the Mackenzie, south to the borders of Mexico. (academic-genealogy.com)
  • The tribes of this stock in the north extend westward nearly to the delta of the Yukon, and reach the coast at Cook's Inlet and the mouth of the Copper River. (academic-genealogy.com)
  • In honoring Native American Heritage month Upper Iowa would like to share information on the tribes of the land the UIU campus and centers reside on. (uiu.edu)
  • There are 500 federally recognized Tribes or Nations in the United States. (raysofexpression.com)
  • As the National Congress of American Indians points out, "There are 567 federally recognized Indian Nations (variously called tribes, nations, bands, pueblos, communities and native villages) in the United States. (ferris.edu)
  • As the title suggests, The Indian World focuses on the relations between the early republic and the American Indian tribes that occupied western lands during Washington's lifetime. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • The book first describes young Washington's early-and inept-management of conflicting interests among Indian tribes and European empires in North America. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Tribes like the Shawnee and Iroquois, who viewed American settlers with unease, were contemptuous of Americans interested in "grasping for Indian land" and fought almost continuously against the United States. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • To that end, he sought "to maintain the friendship of the tribes and preserve peace on the frontiers, protecting settlements from unruly individuals who could not be restrained by their tribes, on the one hand, and [to protect] the Indians' treaty rights, on the other. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Popular conservative website aggregator Matt Drudge is using Thanksgiving 2012 to target Native American students who want to add their perspectives to the American dialogue on what the holiday signifies to them and their tribes and families. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Called "Manifest Destiny," it was based on the belief that God intended the United States to extend its holdings and its power across the wide continent of North America over the native Indian tribes and other nations from the east coast to the west. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • Treaty violation, however, does not nullify their legality, and Native American tribes to this day still live under the laws and restrictions that have controlled their sovereignty for hundreds of years. (lu.se)
  • The publication of a text so carefully constructed with legally non-binding terms and saturated with use of the passive voice was, to many Native Americans, unsurprising in the context of dealings between Native American tribes and the Federal Government. (lu.se)
  • But Calloway's single-volume, carefully detailed account also conveys the conditions surrounding America's westward expansion, its first unsuccessful attempt at regime change, and the "hard lessons in war and diplomacy" learned by the early American republic during its westward march. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • In Across the Nation, printed in 1868, Currier & Ives seems to portray westward expansion and the railway system as being inseparably tied to one another. (warpost.org)
  • During American colonial times, many colonialists and particularly the English felt their civilization to be superior: they were Christians, and they believed their notions of private property to be a superior system of land tenure. (wikipedia.org)
  • The American Series (139 volumes) consists of Gage's correspondence with military officers and civil authorities in North America, including colonial governors, generals, commanders and subordinate officers, Indian superintendents and deputies, admirals of the British Navy in North America, engineers, army contractors, and various prominent civilians. (umich.edu)
  • Like other Europeans who attempted to govern the Indian nations that lived on or within their colonial borders, even the unusually astute Washington was "out of his depth in a complex world of rumors, wampum belts and tribal agendas. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Combined, the resolutions provided the basis for the proposed colonial government and effectively laid the foundation of what was to become the new nation's first written constitution, the British North America Act, 1867. (activehistory.ca)
  • In the 20th century, colonial Europe and America imposed the Westphalian nation-state as the official model for international law on a global level. (c4ss.org)
  • Gerald Vizenor describes the word Indian as "a colonial enactment, not a loan word, [whose] dominance is sustained by the simulation that has superseded the real tribal names" (11). (lu.se)
  • Many Europeans thought Native Americans to be a savage people. (wikipedia.org)
  • Institutionalized throughout the nation and exported to other countries, these images and others include dual portrayals of the good Indian (those who help Europeans) and the bad Indian (those who resist Europeans), nostalgic vanishing, brave warriors, romantic princesses, and countless ignoble images of brutality and degradation. (ferris.edu)
  • Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by listening to Indigenous and native voices from across the continent. (uiu.edu)
  • As the United States grew, it developed a mythology that helped provide Americans with a laudable national heritage while serving to rationalize the dispossession and conquest of indigenous peoples. (ferris.edu)
  • Rebecca Roanhorse… [is one] of the Indigenous novelists reshaping North American science fiction, horror and fantasy - genres in which Native writers have long been overlooked. (changinghands.com)
  • Through a comparative analysis, the duality that characterises Pico's verse will be highlighted, and will place him in a tradition of indigenous poets who demonstrate that duality is a defining feature of Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • In academic writing about Native American literature, one will find a variety of nomenclature to describe America's indigenous. (lu.se)
  • The law, as described by Congress, provided "for an exchange of lands with the Native Americans residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi. (wikipedia.org)
  • With a few exceptions, the United States east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes was emptied of its Native American population. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Native Americans also had to adopt settler values, such as monogamous marriage and abandon non-marital sex. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • In this wickedly funny new comedy, a magically charged world is ignited by wise-cracking spirit animals brought to life by puppets, as estranged brothers of the Blackfeet Nation are pitted against one another in a fierce debate over the personal and economic issues Native people face today on their sovereign land. (theautry.org)
  • Upper Iowa is proud to honor the contributions of the first Americans commemorating Native American Heritage Month with a series of events for faculty, staff and students, as well as resources and videos to raise awareness. (uiu.edu)
  • Below you will find some past recorded events, Native American organizations, and informational resources. (uiu.edu)
  • She also shares how Native Americans have been portrayed through the decades in Upper Iowa University's Collegian student newspaper. (uiu.edu)
  • The mission of the Native American Rights Fund is to preserve tribal existence, protect tribal natural resources and promote Native American human rights. (uiu.edu)
  • Some of my art features Native Americans, also known as American Indians, who have lived and thrived on the North American landscape for thousands of years -- long before there was a United States. (raysofexpression.com)
  • 10% of profits from the sale of my Native American Art will be donated to help Native Americans. (raysofexpression.com)
  • Initially, depictions of Native males and females were used to symbolize the North American continent in the international iconography of the day, representations that proliferated. (ferris.edu)
  • [3] As he responds, "Native Americans use a range of words to describe themselves, and all are appropriate. (ferris.edu)
  • American Indians are richly diverse, yet all too often their public portrayals-in books, advertisements, shop signs, terminology, and even children's toys and games-are greatly at odds with actual Native peoples and cultures. (ferris.edu)
  • It is illustrated with images from the Jim Crow Museum, drawn from its collection of objects depicting Native Americans and consistent with its goal to tell stories of injustice towards all groups. (ferris.edu)
  • The collection is particularly strong in documenting British administration of North America after the French and Indian War, interactions with Native Americans, and the years preceding the American Revolution. (umich.edu)
  • A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics. (sott.net)
  • It is also the time of the month when people talk about Native Americans. (sott.net)
  • The first fact of the history of American immigration is genocide: the displacement and destruction of the Native people of North America. (sustainlv.org)
  • One of many Native American leaders of the assault was Loopy Horse, an Oglala Sioux. (thespiritualmental.com)
  • Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto is a 1969 nonfiction e-book by Native American writer, theologian, historian, and activist Vine Deloria, Jr. The e-book questions how U.S. authorities companies, church buildings, anthropologists, and others have approached points affecting Native Individuals. (thespiritualmental.com)
  • The irony gets pretty thick if you remember - unlike Jindal - that English is the native language not of America, but of England. (c4ss.org)
  • The event, hosted by the American Indian Student Union (AISU), aims to "discuss Thanksgiving from a Native American perspective" over a potluck dinner. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • posted on November 19, Drudge links to a story published on the conservative CampusReform.org website that highlights voices of conservatives who say Native students are wrong for promoting Indian values on Thanksgiving. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Many Native American college student groups, tribal organizations, and Indian advocates hold such events yearly around the nation in an effort to remind American society that Indians played an important role in the founding of America, and that Native American perspectives are alive and well. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Such attempts to paint American Indian awareness as somehow anti-American are common in American society, but they sometimes backfire, as was the case for U.S. Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., who tried to use her Democratic opponent's participation in a similar pro-Native Thanksgiving event when he was in college in the 1990s against him in their recent race for a California U.S. House seat. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Through the use of several analytic methods and postcolonial theories, this thesis will analyse representations of language, place, and identity, and argue that they are constructed in the border between Native American and American consciousness. (lu.se)
  • Firstly, Tommy Pico's Nature Poem will be read alongside a selection of Native American poets. (lu.se)
  • Long Soldier's work demonstrates the complicated relationship between Native American poets and the English language, utilising linguistic and poetic methods to disrupt the hierarchical power of English in public discourse. (lu.se)
  • The variety of terms and lack of consensus in Native American literary studies does highlight the reality that this nomenclature is a postcolonial issue. (lu.se)
  • However, the diversity of Native American poets is considered in the literature. (lu.se)
  • As the poet Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe) wrote, "there is no such thing as Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • For continuity, in this thesis the term Native American will be used. (lu.se)
  • The history of Native Americans after the arrival of the pilgrims in 1620 is one of disenfranchisement, genocide, and forced migration. (lu.se)
  • In 2009, the United States Federal Government issued an "acknowledgement and apology," acknowledging a "long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies" in its dealings with Native Americans (Congress.gov). (lu.se)
  • China's close security and military relationship with the African continent could help protect the nation's vast international investments and economic interests, allowing it to police the trade routes that support the Chinese economy. (blackcommentator.com)
  • Give your students new perspectives on race relations, on the history of the American Revolution, and on the contribution of the Founding Fathers to the cause of representative democracy. (teachwithmovies.org)
  • The Maps series (87 maps) includes maps and fort plans created for British military leaders in North America in the years before the American Revolution. (umich.edu)
  • The expansion of the republic and movement west on this continent, in part, people justified by the overriding philosophical underpinnings since the American Revolution. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • If one goes to their friendly local bookstore in North America, Europe or even in Hong Kong, not to speak of Australia, the chances are is that all one will find there would be tomes written by anti-Communist Chinese or Russian 'dissidents', people that have been living off Western grants, receiving countless awards so they can spend all their energy on smearing Communism, and glorifying anti-revolution. (countercurrents.org)
  • This is the most widespread ethnical and linguistic group in North America, comprising most of Alaska and the Canadian Dominion from the Eskimo domain to the Churchhill river north and south, and from the Rocky Mountains to Hudson Bay west and east, besides isolated enclaves in Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and North Mexico. (academic-genealogy.com)
  • There were civilizations and empires and then, there were nations of small ethnic and linguistic groups. (countercurrents.org)
  • Why is it seen as necessary for fake "pilgrims" and fake "Indians" (portrayed by real children, many of whom are Indian) to sit down every year to a fake feast, acting out fake scenarios and reciting fake dialogue about friendship? (sott.net)
  • The standard history of Thanksgiving tells us that the "Pilgrims and Indians" feasted for three days, right? (sott.net)
  • Pilgrims perceived Indians in relation to the Devil and the only reason why they were invited to that feast was for the purpose of negotiating a treaty that would secure the lands for the Pilgrims. (sott.net)
  • The Pilgrim crop had failed miserably that year, but the agricultural expertise of the Indians had produced twenty acres of corn, without which the Pilgrims would have surely perished. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • The Indians often brought food to the Pilgrims, who came from England ridiculously unprepared to survive and hence relied almost exclusively on handouts from the overly generous Indians--thus making the Pilgrims the western hemisphere's first class of welfare recipients. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Contrary to popular mythology the Pilgrims were no friends to the local Indians. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • They think that by doing events that put down what people understand to be modern American's realization of the American dream and American story is a way to raise awareness about the less glamorous parts of America's history," said Bailey. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Liberals often portray the post- Obama era as an unmitigated diplomatic crisis, a time when time erratic foreign policy swings and "America first" rhetoric wrecked America's ability to influence world affairs. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • The New Adventures of Super Indian, created and written by Arigon Starr based on her popular graphic novels, are three audio episodes that highlight the comic exploits of Super Indian and the residents of the fictional Leaning Oak Reservation. (theautry.org)
  • Calloway shows how the post-Revolutionary government's Indian policies, which largely rested on securing either Indian apathy or friendship, more often secured neither because of nervous and often violent passions. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • This is a biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian social reformer whose invention, nonviolent mass action, changed the face of the 20th century. (teachwithmovies.org)
  • olin G. Calloway's The Indian World of George Washington is a biography, but students of American political history will find in it even more to appreciate. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • At the museums and on social media," Kevin Gover, director of the National Museum of the American Indian, comments, "people ask at least once per day when we are going to take 'American Indian' out of our name. (ferris.edu)
  • Sad but true many people assume, "It is the rock on which our nation began. (sott.net)
  • Portraying this incident in ''The Light of the World'' from The Arkansas Testament , Walcott introduces this remarkable ebony rival to Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People , a van like Hector's Comet, the Halcyon Hotel where Helen will be employed at the close of Omeros , and he registers his desire to give something to these people he has abandoned in pursuit of art. (enotes.com)
  • Altogether, nearly one million people emigrated to North America during the second half of the century. (sustainlv.org)
  • The dominant culture of America descends from people who came to this continent adamantly set on remaining, not English-Americans, but English. (c4ss.org)
  • As for older first generation immigrants who have trouble learning English, they're no different from the Polish and Italian-speaking grandparents many people fondly remember in Chicago, or the Norsk and German speakers Sinclair Lewis portrayed in Minnesota. (c4ss.org)
  • Singing the usual refrain of white supremacists everywhere: You lost, get over it, assimilate, you're lucky the whites won, America is great, love it or leave it, etc. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Baudrillard argued that this role as a model society was itself a form of simulation, in which America presents itself as a perfect example of modernity and progress, but in reality, it is just one version of many possible futures. (columbia.edu)
  • COVID is a dictator's dream opportunity," said Theary Seng, a Cambodian-American human rights lawyer who has been indicted on charges including treason in the ostensibly democratic southeast Asian nation, where Prime Minister Hun Sen has been in power for more than three decades. (globalnews.ca)
  • One common objection, voiced by David Mason in The Hudson Review and Sean O'Brien in The Times Literary Supplement , is that Walcott errs in attempting to include Euro-American material in what is ostensibly a West Indian epic. (enotes.com)
  • America has long been a dominant global force, both culturally and economically. (columbia.edu)
  • From former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, to Iraq and Sudan, to Ivory Coast, Libya and Syria, to Myanmar and Ukraine, Western governments have used non governmental human rights organizations and abuse of the United Nations system to attack countries resisting the demands of US and allied elites and the governments they control. (wrongkindofgreen.org)
  • Like Venezuela previously, Nicaragua has been targeted by the US dominated Organization of American States using local US and European funded non-profit proxies inside Nicaragua and Western corporate dominated non-governmental organizations. (wrongkindofgreen.org)
  • When requested by an anthropologist what the Indians known as America earlier than the white males got here, an Indian stated merely 'Ours. (thespiritualmental.com)
  • Africa was under full assault by the 1800s, as European nations competed with one another for control of the continent. (ipl.org)
  • While at ASU, he participated in the Indian Legal Clinic and dedicated over 400 hours to promoting tribal interests and serving tribal clients. (uiu.edu)
  • Such representations obliterate or mask the realities of tribal nations struggling to maintain their populations, lands, resources, and sovereignty. (ferris.edu)
  • This inaugural defense and security meeting comes at a time of heightened political and economic cooperation between China and African nations, including crucial infrastructure investment, an increase in diplomatic relations, and China training the next generation of African leadership, as Quartz reported. (blackcommentator.com)
  • And, psst - I hear there are some American occupation troops, and corporate personnel extracting other countries' resources, who don't learn the local languages either! (c4ss.org)
  • It negotiated the Iran Nuclear Agreement not with the consent of local stakeholders … but with Germany and the United Nations Security Council. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • Everyone within the borders of a nation-state was to be assimilated into the dominant ethnicity and adopt its language. (c4ss.org)
  • The Indian Removal Act was supported by President Jackson, southern and white settlers, and several state governments, especially that of Georgia. (wikipedia.org)
  • They also had a tradition of vengeance killing not unlike the Indians along the frontier. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Calloway himself provides many examples of such "external annoyance" including Indian raids across the Ohio, Indian armies that could outmatch any European or American army on the continent, designs by the British and Spanish for control of the Creek Country, lingering British influence in Ohio and Florida, the possibility of war between Indian nations along the American frontier, etc. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Elizabeth's decision to emigrate was an act of awe-inspiring courage and resolve even though she had more than ample reason to fear for her family's future if she remained in Norway and realized that the American frontier was her only option. (sustainlv.org)
  • This is an age where American diplomacy and international geopolitical maneuver is centered on what an older generation called the Far East-and Rice's record on Asia is execrable. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • To understand this dismal view of Rice, we must first pop some myths about American diplomacy in the age of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • The model of international law Europe adopted with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 assumed as a norm that every individual must be the subject of a single, unitary, sovereign nation-state. (c4ss.org)
  • One of my favorite lines is: "Europe has never been a continent. (columbia.edu)
  • This development points to an Asian nation that is exerting itself on the world stage and making its presence known as a global superpower. (blackcommentator.com)
  • When 18-year-old Carrie moves in with her grandmother, Rosa, she is thrown into a world of memory and mystery that unearths her family's identity -- shining a light on a dark and bloody period in the history of the American Southwest. (theautry.org)
  • New playwright Dillon Chitto (Mississippi Choctaw, Laguna, Isleta Pueblo) brings the pueblo to the American theatre in this hilarious new play about tradition in a fast-changing world. (theautry.org)
  • and "I is for Indian": World of Children. (ferris.edu)
  • We offer these myths and facts to assist students, parents and teachers in thinking critically about this holiday, and deconstructing what we have been taught about the history of this continent and the world. (sott.net)
  • Till America begins to construct an ethical document in her dealings with the Indian individuals she mustn't attempt to idiot the remainder of the world about her intentions on different continents. (thespiritualmental.com)
  • America has at all times been a militarily imperialistic world energy eagerly greedy for financial management over weaker nations. (thespiritualmental.com)
  • Baudrillard's ideas about simulation and representation are particularly relevant when considering the role of America in the modern world. (columbia.edu)
  • The US and European elites have stepped up their efforts at regime change in Latin America and the Caribbean so as to guarantee access to and control of the region's abundant natural resources, because Chinese and Russian influence is blocking their accustomed control of the majority world in Eurasia and Africa. (wrongkindofgreen.org)
  • In June, it passed a law prohibiting the sharing of content portraying homosexuality or sex reassignment with anyone under 18. (globalnews.ca)
  • 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)
  • Over the last 106 years there has been an effort to gain a national day of recognition for the significant contributions of the first Americans to the establishment and growth of the U.S. Learn more here . (uiu.edu)
  • In just two years, the Mexican War in California realized the goal of an American California, and rich gold deposits were discovered in Coloma, California. (warpost.org)
  • One fact that is always hidden is that the village was already named Patuxet and the Wampanoag Indians lived there for thousands of years. (sott.net)
  • Society - 42 min - ★ 8.44 For over 500 years, African Americans living in the. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • In the Thanksgiving story, are the "Indians" even acknowledged by a tribe? (sott.net)
  • The anti-Thanksgiving celebration will provide a "contrast…with the typical American view of Thanksgiving," AISU president Katelyn Krause promised an NBC affiliate. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Yet, as the non-European population grows, so does the pressure on politicians like Kohl, Schröder, and Merkel to "make the best of it" by granting them citizenship, recognizing their culture as an "integral part" of the nation, and creating a multicultural dictatorship criminalizing all dissenters. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • In November of 2021 Jessie discussed his upbringing and shared his cultural knowledge (Chippewa Cree Culture), and his experiences while growing up on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation as well as the rich history of the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation. (uiu.edu)
  • He also argued that it's entirely reasonable for nations to discriminate between would-be immigrants based on whether they want to "embrace their culture," or "establish a separate culture within. (c4ss.org)
  • American culture, on the other hand, is modern and active. (columbia.edu)
  • One of the most ambitious, ingenious, and sophisticated works of psychohistory yet to appear (it won the Allan Nevins Award of the Society of American Historians), Patricide is much indebted to Freud's Totem and Taboo but also draws on some of the best recent psychoanalytic literature. (nybooks.com)
  • The humorous therapy of Indian society and the intense therapy of the navy are likely to stability out within the tragicomedy of historical past. (thespiritualmental.com)
  • In conclusion, Jean Baudrillard's work offers a thought-provoking critique of modern society and the role of America within it. (columbia.edu)
  • WHILE NO BLUE AND GRAY BATTLES were fought within its changing territorial borders, the war significantly affected life in the territory and Utah's relationship with the nation. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • The movie shows the tremendous power of nonviolent mass action, the struggle for Indian independence, Gandhi's saintliness (and some of his unsaintly qualities), the difficulties caused by the Hindu/Muslim rivalry in India, the operation of the British Empire in India, the discrimination against Indians in South Africa, and Gandhi's efforts to improve Indian civil rights in South Africa. (teachwithmovies.org)
  • For Forgie, this psychological process shaped "not only the mentality of mid-century leadership but also the structure and style of the long struggle to preserve the Union and hence the origins of the American Civil War. (nybooks.com)
  • In Latin America, that dynamic has long targeted Cuba, more recently Venezuela, now Nicaragua and will soon attack Bolivia and probably Mexico too, if the new progressive government there shows too much independence. (wrongkindofgreen.org)
  • The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are all guilty of extreme bad faith, non-compliance with basic norms and adherence to long discredited theoretical nostrums. (wrongkindofgreen.org)
  • During the Revolutionary period, America was portrayed as a feathered Indian defying British tyranny in printed materials of the day. (ferris.edu)
  • The BRI, China's guiding foreign policy doctrine and one of the most ambitious economic initiatives in modern history, is portrayed by Chinese leaders as creating win-win economic development for all nations. (blackcommentator.com)
  • He also advanced a policy of "benevolent amalgamation" which sought peaceful acquisition of Indian territory through purchase while drawing Indians "nearer to the civilized state" by encouraging their adoption of private property and agriculture. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Coupled with the rise of nationalism during the Napoleonic Wars, this norm was extended to include the requirement that every nation-state, ideally, have a single official ethnic identity. (c4ss.org)
  • In 1990 President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 "National American Indian Heritage Month. (uiu.edu)
  • though it receives scant mention in Civil War histories and only a little more in volumes on the American West. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • I have great respect for the blue eyed and light haired races of America. (elijahwald.com)
  • But I reject the arrogant and scornful theory by which they would limit migratory rights, or any other essential human rights to themselves, and which would make them the owners of this great continent to the exclusion of all other races of men. (elijahwald.com)
  • The papers include incoming correspondence and retained copies of letters written by Gage, together with a large quantity of documents related to military administration and manuscript maps of North America. (umich.edu)
  • And when his Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down a few hours later, the first American to orbit the Earth reminded us that with courage and a spirit of discovery there's no limit to the heights we can reach together," President Obama said in a statement. (latimes.com)
  • John Glenn, President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson inspect the Friendship 7, the Mercury capsule in which Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. (latimes.com)
  • The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and governmental correspondence and headquarter papers of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763) and commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America between 1763 and 1775. (umich.edu)
  • The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and government correspondence of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763), commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America (1763-1775), and Governor of Massachusetts (1774-1775). (umich.edu)
  • The Warrants series (40 boxes) is made up of financial documents authorizing payment for the British military forces in North America. (umich.edu)
  • In the British North America Act, such rights were subsumed in the preamble's direction that the new dominion was to have "a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom. (activehistory.ca)
  • Along the west coast of Africa, European nations traded for slaves, ivory, and gold. (ipl.org)
  • The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the hunting of black skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. (sustainlv.org)
  • Of those, Cheyenne, Apache, Navajo, Comanche, Sioux, and Blackfeet were some of the major Indian nations of the Old West in the 19th Century who lived in the Great Plains of North America, a vast area stretching from the Mississippi River to the west of the continent. (raysofexpression.com)
  • Chinese children are in American schools in San Francisco, none of our children are in Chinese schools, and probably never will be, though in some things they might well teach us valuable lessons. (elijahwald.com)
  • The Union Pacific Railroad, an Indian boarding school, and Madame Overdone's Stewed Prunes Saloon collide in Randy Reinholz's bawdy and irreverent Off the Rails, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure set in Buffalo Bill's Wild West! (theautry.org)
  • In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, authorizing the construction the first transcontinental railroad, essentially securing reliable transport to the American west. (warpost.org)
  • Clearly, Walcott in his own persona and Major Plunkett expend much of their energy in the poem pursuing a well-intentioned, nonetheless misguided, quest to immortalize their West Indian Helen in emulation of Homer's white paradigm. (enotes.com)
  • Indeed, Forgie argues that the sentimental flight from symbolic patricide prevented antebellum Americans from achieving cultural and political autonomy, and ultimately unleashed fratricidal impulses which a leader like Lincoln could exploit but not control. (nybooks.com)
  • Note: We have based our "fact" sections in large part on the research, both published and unpublished, that Abenaki scholar Margaret M. Bruchac developed in collaboration with the Wampanoag Indian Program at Plimoth Plantation. (sott.net)
  • As a part of the Belt and Road project, which provides the promise of prosperity and modernized infrastructure to underdeveloped and developing nations from East Africa to the South China Sea, Beijing has also acquired over a dozen ports across the Indian Ocean in a move to increase its political and military influence. (blackcommentator.com)
  • The Letter Books, Account Books, and Additional Material series (17 items) contains copy books of communications with military outposts in North America and accounts for military expenses. (umich.edu)
  • The bulk of these items were created during Gage's tenure as military governor of Montréal, commander-in-chief of North America, and governor of Massachusetts. (umich.edu)
  • Basically, this concept is a description of how, when, and where the military service expects to Protect the nation against some threat to its security. (usni.org)
  • That America has only made a perfect visual art that artificially portrayed realism to achieve a striking and realistic effect but actually did not presented the real photographic representation of what is behind the event. (columbia.edu)