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    culture for a grant to settle among the people of Georgia. While Georgia was welcoming to this particular Indian tribe, it didn’t last long.…

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    What are the Biloxi Indian Tribe exactly? The Biloxi Indians are an Indian tribe from Biloxi Mississippi. The Biloxi people were decimated due to a smallpox epidemic. Which caused the survivors of the smallpox epidemic to spread throughout the southern parts of the united states. Which caused the survivors of this epidemic to migrate westward. Today the Biloxi Indian Tribe is scattered around the south of the U.S. but today still mainly live in Biloxi. Today the Biloxi Indian Tribe is combined…

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    Trail Of Tears Dbq

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    States had given the Cherokees a deadline to be off of Cherokee Territory and beginning the journey west. Cherokee people were given two years to leave the land before they would be forced off. In one case, chief justice John Marshall ruled that Georgia had no power over the Cherokee tribe. Andrew Jackson then defied this ruling and said, “Burn a fire under them, they’ll move.” (Video) What Jackson was saying was that if they threaten the Cherokees then they would eventually move off the…

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    gunpoint to leave so the executive branch did a bad job and going threw with the law and should have been checked or had the bill vetoed.”In the fall of 1838, the U.S. government, now under Van Buren, ordered the forcible removal of the Cherokees from Georgia to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma”(Aboukhadijeh). The government should have not forced the cherokees out of their home because they had no business to ask them to sign the treaty of ecoata in the first place. With all this…

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    In the "Younger sky that has wept tears of compassion" by Chief Seattle, Seattle uses comparison to Red Indian and white people. At that time, white people came to the land once was the land of Indians people and now called America. White came and took over the land, where the Indians people have lived their memories. Seattle wrote this story that untold to people in 1854. The purpose of writing this story was to let people know how white people treated red indians and their land. After white…

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    William Blackmore and Sitting Bull both had different viewpoints over who should have ownership of the western lands. William Blackmore believed that the Native Americans would soon die out, leaving room for a “higher and more civilized race.” He used derogatory terms such as “savages” or “Red Men” to belittle the Native Americans. Blackmore made it clear that even though the Native Americans had a population of just 300,000, their hunting practices and free roaming lifestyle took up valuable…

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    Competitor Analysis Competitor Profile Southwest Airlines has three very close competitors which are Delta Airlines, American Airlines, and United Airlines. Delta Airlines is an American airlines with its headquarter in Atlanta, Georgia. Delta is the sixth-oldest operating airline by foundation date, and the oldest airline still operating in the United States. Delta's brand campaign, “Keep Climbing” is a declaration of the company's commitment to making flying better and a celebration of where…

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    Fort Laramie Thesis

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    Historical topic: ___Treaty of Fort Laramie________ I. Introduction Thesis statement: The Treaty of Fort Laramie is important because of how it led to the loss of a lot of Native American culture. It was part of their culture to live close together, but the treaty separated them by giving the Sioux too much land on each reservation. Not only that, but because the U.S. Government did not keep some of its promises to the Native Americans, it was not even worth the tradeoff. For…

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    Dbq Indian Removal

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    A significant and catastrophic event in history was the Indian Removal Act of 1830, initiated and enacted by Andrew Jackson. Standing in the way of white settlers and their path to greater prosperity were the sizable number of Native Americans. The so-called Five Civilized Tribes, which included the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles occupied the land, especially in the South, which threatened the expansion of the land-hungry Americans. President Andrew Jackson promised to…

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    After demanding both political and military action on removing native American Indians from the southern states of America in 1829 President Andrew Jackson sign this into law on May 28, 1830 although it only gave the right to negotiate for their withdrawal from areas to the east of the Mississippi River and that relocation was supposed to be voluntary, all of the pressure was there to make this all but inevitable. All the tribal leaders agreed after Jackson's landslide victory in 1832. It is…

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