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  • Costa Rica And Spain's Other Central
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    Costa Rica by Brandon Noll Costa Rica's official language is Spanish. And nearly all Costa Ricans speak Spanish, but many blacks still speak a Jamaican dialect (local form) of English. About per cent of the people belong to the Roman Catholic Church. The basic money unit is the colon which is worth about a penny in the U.S. The total land area is 19,730 sq. mi. In Costa Rica there are three main land regions: the Central Highlands, the Carribean Lowlands and the Pacific Coastal Strip. The Centra...
  • Indians And Pilgrims
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    THE FIRST THANKSGIVING On September 6, 1620,102 men, women and children from England boarded a small cargo boat called the Mayflower and set sail for the New World. The passengers left their homes in England in search of religious freedom from the King of England. Today they are known as "pilgrims". After braving two months at sea, crossing the stormy Atlantic Ocean, the Pilgrims finally landed off the coast of the New World. In the freezing December waters, they anchored the Mayflower and sent ...
  • Mark Off His Land In The Frontier
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    : : : : Just a note, I wrote this my Junior Year in high school, so don't expect anything amazing. Please feel free to use, edit, tweak in any way you want. Just make sure you document: D: : : : The United States of America is a perfect name for the country. It is after all many states united. But to have states you must have land for those states. Before those stats become land they must be a frontier, or as defined by Webster's Dictionary, "A region that forms the margin of settled or develope...
  • Ships Up And Cabeza De Vaca
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    Does Cabeza de Vaca change from the beginning of the narrative to the end? Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's fight for attainment of survival, while being deprived of the basic necessities of life, proves there is a change in him from the beginning of the narrative to the end. This transformation, though, affected multiple aspects of de Vaca, including his motives, character, and perspective of civilization. Cabeza de Vaca's experience is crucial to the history of America, as well as Spain, because i...
  • Tecumseh And The Older Brother
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    It is believed that Tecumseh was born in 1768 in central Ohio. He was the second son of a Shawnee warrior who was killed at the Battle of Point Pleasant. In his dying breaths, his father commanded his eldest son Cheesuaka, to train Tecumseh as a warrior and to never make peace with the whites. Cheesuaka was good to his word and became an excellent warrior and a teacher. He grew close with his younger brother, and after their mother moved to Missouri he acted as a foster parent as well. Tecumseh ...
  • Ponce De Leon Of Course
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    The New World land where people could prosper. A land with plenty of opportunity for quick advancement in the Spanish military and diplomatic careers. Coming to the end of the fifteenth century; there were thousands of daring men and women who would be crossing the ocean to conquer just within a few centuries what had taken the Indians thousands to years to inhabit! The discovery of Gold in Mexico and Peru caused many Spanish men to join the army; Leading a successful colonial mission could get ...
  • Navajo Selection Of New Lands
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    The Navajo were one of the great Southwestern Native American tribes. Their history, culture, and art and tradition will be discussed. The people who were going to become the Navajo tribe settled in what would be the mountains of New Mexico in or around the 1600's. Prior to that time the area was the home of the Anasazi (The Ancient Ones.) The Anasazi had lived there for approximately 1200 years but, for unexplained reasons, they abandoned their highly developed dwellings and moved westward and ...
  • Issue Hurry And Natty Cooper
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    Cooper's 'Deerslayer': View of the Native Americans James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey. He was the son of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper, the twelfth of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the first great American novelists, in many ways because he was the first American writer to gain international followers of his writing. In addition, he was perhaps the first novelist to 'demonstrate... that native materials could insp...
  • Guarani Tribe
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    The Guarani is an indigenous group living in the eastern lowland area of South America, with a population of about 80,000. It is believed that the Guaranis originated in the area of the Amazon River, then started to move south and inland (web). They now reside in Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil and their language is spoken by nearly 4 million people. (web). There currently are three main sub-divisions of the Guarani tribes. Those are the Mbya, the Ava Guarani, and the Pay Tavytera, alth...
  • Indian Act Of 1927 The Band
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    In a society that is governed by laws no one person can be expected to know them all and how to interpret them. In Canada we have a group of judges that sit on a bench that interpret the laws and rule on cases. This groups of judges is called the Supreme Court of Canada. This essay will deal with four cases that this body of government decided to have the final ruling on. The first case is Her Majesty The Queen versus John Sundown. The second case is Blueberry River Indian Band versus Canada (De...
  • De Soto Expedition
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    De Soto Legacy of a Conquistador In 1539 Hernando de Soto and five hundred adventurers began on a journey of exploration that would take 4 years and would travel through 10 states in the southeast United States. His goal was to discover a source of wealth, preferably gold, and around his mines establish a settlement. During his travels through La Florida he encountered numerous groups of native peoples, making friends of some and enemies of others. His expedition was not the first in La Florida;...
  • Americas India
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    As the vessel bounces lazily across the waves, a man sitting amidships on the crow's nest cries out. "Land, Ho!" he says in a state of dumbfounded excitement. After almost a year at sea, their fateful voyage was reaching a conclusion. A stately man walks out of the cabin and surveys the situation. He is Christopher Columbus, Portuguese explorer. Some say he was one of the greatest men that ever lived. He discovered the "New World" and brought riches back to his lieges in Spain. These people are ...
  • Indian History And Pocahontas
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    Many moons ago, an Indian girl was not yet born but there were many problems with Indians and the white man as the Indians. This unborn child would become a huge part of colony history between the Indians and the English; this child was to be recognized in history by many different names the most famous name would be Pocahontas. The book I read was about Pocahontas by Grace Steele Woodward. This book covers many different subjects in Pocahontass life. The book begins with a background of The Pow...
  • Native Americans The Indian General Allotment Act
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    The post Civil War era of 1865 to 1900 brought amazing changes to the United States that were all influenced, for better or worse, by all branches of the United State government. Immigrants, African Americans and Native Americans all faced discrimination at the hands of American citizens and government. Labor unions became organized prompting regulation of working conditions, and the railroads burst into transcontinental transportation, which was part of the cause for the surge in industrial gro...
  • Certain Indians From The Iroquois Nation
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    Before the white man the story of Iroquois Indians began long before the white explorers, traders, and settlers reached the shores of the New World. The Iroquois originally lived in some unknown part of the North America. According to legend, these Indians were instructed by the Great Spirit to move into the Northeast. There they carved a territory for themselves in the middle of a rival group of Indians, the Algonquin's. The Iroquois settled in beautiful and rich lands of northern New York Stat...
  • Contact With The Indian Empire In Mexico
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    Benchmark Essay: How did Spain establish an American Empire? In 1507, Spain published an Introduction to Cosmography... to which are added The Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci... The atlas proposed that the "fourth part of the earth" -- -beyond Europe, Asia, and Africa -- -that "Amerigo discovered" should be called "Amerigo, the land of Amerigo... or America". The latter paragraphs will include the vigorous expeditions and actions taken that led the Spaniards to establish an American Empire. A q...
  • Their Land And Their Way Of Life
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    During the 1800's, the United States underwent a transformation and change unlike any the country had ever seen in our history either before or since. It is my intention to describe some of the key issues that made this transformation possible and also to address some of the problems that surfaced from this expansion. I will be utilizing the document-based questions as a basis of my explaining this growth and change in America. I believe that John Louis O'Sullivan's editorial from the New York M...

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