The Future Of The Red Man Summary

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"The Future of the red man" is a story on Cherokee people from their origins in a land across the great waters to coming a white man. He talks about how white people came to America and were killing Native Americans. I think its wrong that the fact they would kill them but see also don't think they would just kill Indians, They think that Indians have somethings wrong to white people that's why they have attacked them. Also during the period and time white people were known as bad folks but today that's why native Americans sorta still have a grudge on white people. The Native American did have to dress just like white folks and dress just like them. In the red man's origin tells how the clans became seven in number. When reading the short

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