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“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories…”
The Cheyenne camp near Fort Lyon Black Kettle, leading chief of around 163 mostly Southern Cheyenne, had led his band, joined by some Arapahos under Chief Niwot, to Fort Lyon in compliance with provisions of a peace parley held in Denver in September 1864.[31] After a while, the American Indians were asked to relocate to Big Sandy Creek,…
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By any account the name Alaska was derived from Native languages to describe the land. Alaska ALWAYS had a range of Native populations present on and occupying the land. The Russian Empire in much the same way as European monarchies was involved in colonization of lands they had no claim…
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On this day, Crazy Horse, even when dying, refused to lie on the white man’s cot. He insisted on being placed on the floor. Armed soldiers stood by until he died. And when he breathed his last, Touch the Clouds, Crazy Horse’s seven-foot-tall Miniconjou friend, pointed to the blanket that…
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The new, Corporate Person — In 1886, the Supreme Court, in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, declared that the railroad corporation was a “person” under the Fourteenth Amendment, with rights to life, liberty, property, due process and equal protection. 1 The court curtly dispensed with ontological arguments that had been…
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