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#1 The Pleistocene Epoch, which began about 2. 6 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago, marked profound changes in the history of the human race. People began to form into bands of hunters and foragers who lived nomadic lives in temporary camps.
#2 The first Native Americans, who were the first settlers in the Americas, were forced to go east or west...
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"With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the encroachment...
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The last "Indian war" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official, "Kill the Indian and save the man."
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