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The treatment of native americans in America.

Date Submitted: 12/21/2004 22:43:01
Length: 2 pages (541 words)
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Deprived of his land, shunted onto reservations, denied most civil rights, the American Indian, who by 1900 number less than a quarter million, found his rights even on his reservation often ignored or violated. George Kennan, in the spirit of a muckraking journalist, describes in detail one example of outrageous behavior to the Sioux. Just west of the Missouri River and south of its tributary the Cannonball, partly in North Dakota and partly in South Dakota, …

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…child of them to Alaska or Puerto Rico. All in all, the Sioux Indians ceded nine million acres of their land to the United States in payment for the land they now occupy. However, with no acquired title, either of freehold or leasehold, the American Indians have gained nothing. The Americans took all the Sioux Indians' land and gave them the deception that they have received since the Europeans' first arrival in the New World.

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