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Cane's account of contemporary culture also includes some intriguing evidence of the ancestors of the defendants trading fish with the early white settlers in the region.

As proof of this fact, you should understand that it wasn't so long ago that white settlers in this country held black slaves to forced labor, and virtually all religions of those days condoned the practice.

Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country, which won deserved prizes at last year's Venice and Toronto film festivals, carries on that tradition in eccentric, elegiac style, tackling the country's history of colonial oppression with a Western about the manhunt for an aboriginal stockman (Hamilton Morris) who kills a white settler in self - defense.

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For example, Westerners visiting the hospital were displeased at Schweitzer's insistence that the animals be allowed to go wherever they wanted without harm — animals were in fact often cared for as tenderly and thoroughly as any white settler.

Supremacy of the «Master Race» in Germany, the «white man «s burden» in Africa and Asia, the «manifest destiny» of settlers over the Indians in America, the «evil empire» of the Soviet Union — these and other myths are powerfully motivate and support various public policies and actions today.

White settlers, many of whom were convicts sent there involuntarily, started arriving in Australia in the late eighteenth century.

From Erin: Hi Randy, I live in Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada... highly populated region of First Nations (mainly Cree and Dene) and Metis people... What do you see the role being for the white settlers now?

Just ask those called «U.S. citizens by birth» about «noncitizens» in their midst; ask the «legally naturalized immigrant» about the «illegal alien,» the Jewish Israeli «settler» about the gentile Palestinian «squatter» or the white - suburban commuter about the people who live around his downtown church.

The first white settlers were sponsored by the Dutch West India Company in the 1620s and 1630s.

Along the Cascadia segment, geologists could find no evidence of major quakes in «all of recorded history» — the 140 years since white settlers arrived in the Pacific Northwest and began keeping records.

In 1607, when settlers landed at Jamestown to start the first British colony, there were between 24 million and 31 million white - tailed deer in North AmericIn 1607, when settlers landed at Jamestown to start the first British colony, there were between 24 million and 31 million white - tailed deer in North Americin North America.

The eradication of wetlands in the so - called New World began when white settlers, intent on taming the land, started developing homesteads and town sites throughout what was to become the United States and Canada.

While collecting information for his work «Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia,» G. Bennet marveled at the use of emu oil by Aborigines and early white settlers to heal wounds, reduce pain and relieve muscular disorders with great success.

A Comanche attack on white settlers leaves three children and one man dead, a homestead in flames and a suddenly widowed survivor, Rosalee Quaid, played by Rosamund Pike, crazed with grief.

Cooper hits the gas quickly with an opening sequence in which a band of rabid Comanche raiders descend upon a seemingly peaceful family of white settlers.

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».

In 1892, however, white settlers found themselves under constant threat of being shot and scalped, playing a defensive game against the local «savages» — terrifyingly illustrated in «Hostiles»» opening scene, in which a group of Comanches ride up to a homestead and slaughter all but Rosalee, who barely escapes with her own lifIn 1892, however, white settlers found themselves under constant threat of being shot and scalped, playing a defensive game against the local «savages» — terrifyingly illustrated in «Hostiles»» opening scene, in which a group of Comanches ride up to a homestead and slaughter all but Rosalee, who barely escapes with her own lifin «Hostiles»» opening scene, in which a group of Comanches ride up to a homestead and slaughter all but Rosalee, who barely escapes with her own lifin which a group of Comanches ride up to a homestead and slaughter all but Rosalee, who barely escapes with her own life.

Though to be fair, Sydney Pollack's «Out of Africa» (left) does all it can to avoid making any statement about the suffering of Africans under colonialism, placing focus instead on its white characters, played by Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, a pair of European settlers in Kenya.

The arrival of a new Pollyanna McIntosh movie is generally worthy of note among genre fans, mainly because the fantastic Scottish actress seems to have pretty solid taste in horror scripts (Offspring, The Woman, White Settlers, etc.), but also because she's a fine lead actor... and super pretty to boot.

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.

Few facts are known of Slow's childhood and upbringing, although Marrin fills in details of Lakota (or Sioux, as they were known to the white explorers and settlers) child - rearing practices.

A student at a novel middle school located inside the Grand Rapids Public Museum, Banks is eager to tell you about the historic importance of the sturgeon in the diet of the region's indigenous Anishinabek, as well as the details of its overfishing by white settlers and its present - day endangered status.

In the first decades of the 19th century, the Cherokees did everything possible to adapt to the white settler culture that was encroaching on their homeland.

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.

How did the coming of white settlers change the native way of life, particularly in terms of families» relations to the land, a traditional economy, and education?

The first permanent white settler at Hervey Bay was Boyle Martin who, with his wife and child, arrived in 1863.

Our four original ales Rock «in Pale Ale, Bombora Pilsner, Great White - White Ale and Day Tr «IPA India Pale Ale are all delivered fresh to Settlers doorstep and available to try with a Taster Paddles for $ 8 at the bar.

The drive also includes the historic spot on Alki Beach where the first white settlers arrived in Seattle and spent the winter of 1851 before retreating to the less blustery site on Elliot Bay that became downtown.

Add to this the beautiful churches in Wartburg, Harburg and Hermannsburg, the settler church in York and any number of outdoor activities, such as white - water rafting near Weenen, zipline sliding in the Karkloof Valley, or birding in the Mpushini Valley Wilderness, and there is enough to keep you and the family entertained for days.

The term «free state» dates back to South Africa's early history when, for almost 150 years, the white settlers, who lived between the Vaal and Orange rivers in an area they called the Orange Free State, were independent of British rule.

In 1916, Carmel - by - the - Sea's original settlers set out to create «a village in a forest overlooking a white sand beach» for their artist colonIn 1916, Carmel - by - the - Sea's original settlers set out to create «a village in a forest overlooking a white sand beach» for their artist colonin a forest overlooking a white sand beach» for their artist colony.

Between the near guarantee of absolutely breathtaking weather, the exciting and unique culture, stemming from a mixture of West African, Creole, Indian and British settlers at different times in the islands history, and the world - famous white sand beaches, there isn't a single facet of Barbados that takes away from the pleasures of a private villa rental vacation experience.

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In Shannon Te Ao's installation «With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods», commissioned for the Edinburgh Art Festival, the New Zealand artist begins to intone a 19th - century lament for a Māori princess afflicted by leprosy (a disease which arrived with white colonial settlers), his heavy voice flecked by drones and the rustling of foliage.

At the same time, the distinct encounters of the settlers in Algoa Bay or the Natal colony laid the groundwork for the system of white minority rule — Apartheid — that was codified over a century later.

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i agree with michael that INM is a movement of our young people in telling our govrnments of the day that the treaties of our past and present leaders have to be look at with very open minds and eyes, if the treaties were to be put into action, we the aborigoinals would not need the govrnment hands out that are happening, in saying that if the day of govrnment were to give 2 % if the resoeuse share taken from the lands our treaties agreed to share with all the vistors to this before the treaties we signed by our past leader both aborigionals and white settlers that would amount to around 15billions dollar annaully so the INM is all getting the govrnment of the day to look with open minds@eyes into the treaties miigwetch

While most of the countries in Africa were attaining independence from their colonial rulers, the white settlers led by the notorious white supremacist, Ian Smith, led a campaign to pressurise Great Britain to grant the country independence to be ruled by the whites.

White settlers first arrived in the early 1800's when fur trading posts were founded in the area.

The Cherokee coexisted with white settlers until the discovery of gold in Georgia in 1828.

Being white in a settler colony like Australia means that you can move through daily life in a world that has been designed by people who are white for people who are white.

History: identify points of view, perspectives, values and attitudes in historical sources (viewing past events from more than one perspective e.g. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and white settler attitudes to natural environment).