Sentences with phrase «american white settlers»

The idea is to stop American white settlers passing through town and alerting the sheriff to your illicit activities by taking them out before they make it (a little bit like Tower Raiders).

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Whitesboro's town seal, which depicts a white settler with hands apparently choking a Native American man, has been sparking racial controversy for decades, and Mayor Patrick O'Connor has had enough.

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers» violence toward Native Americans.

Kelly Reichardt's 2010 western Meek's Cutoff, set in 1845, follows a group of white settlers traversing the Oregon desert who along the way capture a Cayuse Native American — only credited as «The Indian».

For example, as the western genre has sought to eulogise the mission of white settlers, for a long time Native American characters were rarely, if ever, translated (when Native languages were used — often it was gibberish, or even English dialogue played backwards).

The way it portrays the clash of cultures between the white settlers and the Native Americans whose lands were taken, corrupting the souls of those on both... Read More»

I can still remember how, growing up, everybody (even the Native American kids) not only rooted for the frontiersmen to defeat the wild Injuns on TV, but we also preferred to be white settlers whenever we played «Cowboys and Indians.»

Each encounter along the way, most horrifically brutal, is designed to add some variation on the theme, and all boil down to: both white settlers and Native Americans committed atrocities and both have to find some way to reconcile with the past.

Ralph Taeger played Hondo Lane, a former cavalry scout, who tries to broker a treaty between white settlers and Native Americans in the Arizona Territory.

The Five Nations, collectively known to themselves as the Haudenosaunee (People of the Long House), but better known today by the derogatory term given to them by white settlers, Iroquois meaning rattlesnake, are a group of Native American tribes consisting of the Seneca (People of the Great Hill), Cayuga (People of the Great Swamp), Onondaga (People of the Hills),...

Patent traces the bond between Native Americans and horses, describing how many First Nations people relied on the animals to assist them in hunting buffalo and how the intrusion of white settlers spelled disaster for their way of life.

This trail was used by white settlers following the American Revolution.