Avarice And Mendacity Summary

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Avarice and Mendacity
Europeans came to a new world that was already inhabited with a native population that was subjected to new and exotic diseases and aggression that wiped out more than half of their populations. The Native Americans did not set out to create war with the Europeans; in fact, they were nothing more than victims of European avarice and mendacity. After everything that the Native Americans had gone through with the introduction of the European settlers, and even their helping the colonies to gain their independence from England, they were still subjected to prejudice attitudes and land grabbing from settlers, local and state government, as well as from the United States government. The first gold rush in United States

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