| Initially, the Native Americans welcomed
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| | case of the peaceful Cherokee Indians.
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| the Europeans to America. Christopher
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| | They worked within the confines of the
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| Columbus reported to Queen Isabella and
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| | legal system of the United States to
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| King Ferdinand that the Indians on San
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| | resist their forced removal from their
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| Salvador Island responded warmly to the
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| | homelands in Georgia. They filed a
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| gifts the Europeans gave them, and
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| | lawsuit with the United States federal
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| "became so entirely [their] friends that
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| | government against the state of Georgia
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| it was a wonder to see" (Hurtado 45).
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| | to be able to remain in their traditional
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| Montezuma and the Aztecs welcomed the
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| | homelands. Although they ultimately lost
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| Spaniards as a God that came in
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| | the lawsuit and were forced to leave
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| fulfillment of their destiny. This Aztec
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| | their homelands, the Cherokee tribe did
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| belief induced them to submit themselves
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| | not turn to warfare as a response to
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| entirely under the Spaniards' rule. Many
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| | their tragic displacement. The majority
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| Native American tribes, such as those
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| | of the Cherokees quietly submitted to the
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| encountered by Jacques Cartier, Cabeza de
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| | march known as the Trail of Tears, in
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| Vaca, and Hernando de Soto, regarded the
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| | which so many of them died along the way
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| Europeans as powerful shamans or Gods.
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| | due to exposure and starvation from lack
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| The Native Americans would bring their
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| | of adequate provisions.
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| ill tribal members to them to heal their
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| | The Plains Indians, such as the Lakota,
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| sickness (Hurtado 56).
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| | were the most likely Native Americans
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| The influx of European goods greatly
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| | tribes to respond to their oppression
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| altered the relationship between the
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| | with open warfare. The taking of the
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| Native Americans and the invading
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| | Black Hills is a very good example of
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| Europeans. As the Native Americans began
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| | this. When the settlers first began to
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| to use European goods, such as hatchets,
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| | swarm into the Black Hills looking for
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| iron arrowheads, sword blades, knives,
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| | gold, the U.S. government initially tried
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| and other goods, their dependency upon
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| | to keep them out in accordance of the
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| Europeans became more established.
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| | treaty with the Lakota and their allies.
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| Divisions between tribes began to emerge
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| | But as more and more gold-seekers trekked
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| as some Native American tribes allied
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| | in, the federal government reversed their
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| themselves with the English, and others
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| | position. The government offered to buy
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| allied themselves with the French
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| | the Black Hills, which was rejected.
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| settlers.
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| | Then the U.S. government issued a law
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| Initially, the Christian missionaries
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| | requiring all the Indians to vacate the
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| were accepted also, as the polytheistic
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| | Black Hills. This action led to such
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| Native Americans did not resist the
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| | violent confrontations as the battles of
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| worship of the Christian god. But when
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| | Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee. Not all
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| the conquering Europeans began to
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| | the Plains Indians fought in this war, as
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| rigorously suppress the Native Americans'
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| | many of them followed Red Cloud and
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| religion, they began to resist. As in the
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| | remained out of the fighting. This taking
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| case of the Tewa Indians, they resisted
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| | of the Black Hills is still an important
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| passively at first by keeping their
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| | issue today, since the Lakota tribe
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| religious observances hidden from the
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| | continues to assert their claim over the
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| Spanish. But as the Spanish invaders
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| | Black Hills, and refuses to touch the
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| became even more ruthless in suppressing
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| | money the United States government holds
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| their religion, the Tewa Indians openly
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| | in trust for the purchase of the Black
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| rebelled, killing many of the Spanish,
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| | Hills.
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| including non-combatants such as women,
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| | Bibliography
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| children, and priests. The Tewa Indians
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| | Hurtado, Albert, Peter Iverson, and
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| also ransacked Christian churches and
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| | Thomas Paterson, editors. Major Problems
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| desecrated their holy places.
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| | in American Indian History: Documents and
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| Another type of resistance used by the
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| | Essays. Houghton Mifflin Company
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| Native Americans is exemplified in the
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| | Collegiate Division, 2000.
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