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- Native American Population:60-112 million
- The Native Americans leaved peacefully and nomadically in the frontier.
- The Hopi tribe are the oldest Native American tribe.
- Oh my! New land and Native Americans. We have got to tell them who is boss.
- “When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose it is called a massacre.” – Chiksika, Shawnee
- 200,000 Buffalo were killed yearly, due to hungry people and wanting people to be hungry.
- Why did we have to leave our home?
- Thomas Jefferson was the first person to suggest the Indian Removal Policy. May 28th, 1930 the Indian Removal Act was signed into the law by Andrew Jackson.
- These reservations are awful!
- The White Americans introduced a lot of new diseases to the Native Americans. Since they had never experienced these diseases, they suffered badly killing (an estimate of) 90% of Native Americans.
- Ugh, I feel so sick!
- Kill the Indian, save the man, said Captain Richard Henry Pratt in one of his speeches. The quote is talking about getting rid of the Native American culture to'save' the man inside.
- I know, we have to learn how to farm AND speak another language.
- This is so unfair and cruel! Why can't we do things our way?
- America looks very different now, with the frontier gone. Yet there are still a lot of Native Americans that are still in reservations. Around about 30% of the 5.2 million population of Native Americans are still in reservations.
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