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and the goal to be achieved. The Christian masses used the divine will as their reasoning behind the economic choices to take all the land and its fruits. To illustrate their twisted thinking is “”a quote in the essay “God and the Land”, “Although many natural historians and most natural theologians saw a specific signs of God in nature, few of them, however, would interpret the evidences of divine design as specifically as did John Archdale in his 1707 “Description of Carolina” in which he wrote, “And courteous Readers, I shall give you some farther Eminent Remark hereupon and especially in the first Settlement of Carolina, where the Hand of God was eminently seen in thinning the Indians, to make room for the English…it at other times pleased Almighty God to send unusual Sicknesses amongst them, as the Smallpox, etc., to lessen their Numbers…”” (Adams, 1995) Hard to believe the diseases that the Europeans brought to the continent and devestated the Native Indians from the beginning ...

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Hills. The attitudes were such that Americans felt the Indians were wards of the government and not independent nations. The civilized farmers were living among the Indians who at the time were considered savages and an “Indian problem”. The time of making treaties was coming to an end. In 1871 Congress declared an end to making treaties, and resolved to dealing with the Indian tribes by the reservation system. Indians resisted the assault on their land and would fight until they faced the harsh reality between starvation or reservation.
After the government confirmed gold in the Black Hills region, they offered to purchase the land. But Sitting Bull refused to sell the sacred land. ...

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