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Centuries ago a people filled and roamed the North American continent with an easy freedom and uncommon respect for the surrounding land. Nature and man intertwined in gracious style and extraordinary equilibrium. These people known as Native Americans led an am ....

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.... image of what was to come. Never having been exposed to alien germs, they were nearly demolished by the attack of the various diseases introduced by the new inhabitants. The remaining few were forced away from their homelands and confined to destitute reservations in the Indian Removal Act of 1830, more widely known as The Trail of Tears. (Trail) Regarded by the white man as uneducated and helpless, thousands of American Indians were forced to march to the reservations beyond the Mississippi, all the while being told it was for their own good. Eventually they were even expelled from these desolate locales for the mining of oil and gold by the new ....