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Lacrosse is the oldest team sport in North America, having been played by Native American tribes long before any European had even set foot on the continent. A century after European missionaries discovered the game played by Native Americans, they began to play it themselves, starting in the 18th century. From there, it evolved and grew in popularity from a very savage game that resembled war, into what it is today, a recreational sport played widely in America and other countries. As U.S. Lacrosse

Football is the most popular sport in the United States. The two types of football people watch the most is college football and professional football. Everyone has their own opinion on which they prefer. I personally think that because of that with the NFL on center stage, we lose sight of the true spirit of football. Football is about a team’s love and dedication for the game, not some player that’s getting payed a million dollars to throw and run the ball because he has a Bugatti payment to make

Lacrosse is the oldest team sport in North America, having been played by Native American tribes long before any European had even set foot on the continent. A century after European missionaries discovered the game played by Native Americans, they began to play it themselves, starting in the 18th century. From there, it evolved and grew in popularity from a very savage game that resembled war, into what it is today, a recreational sport played widely in America and other countries. As U.S. Lacrosse

already been obliterated by disease and war with the White invaders from the sea before most of the English colonies were even well established, a pattern which would only continue to get worse. For the Indians living in what is now the eastern United States in the 1770's, the revolution was merely the continuation of a generational war they had been steadily losing for over a century already. Native peoples all across the vast hinterlands had coped with the destruction of their lives and livelihoods

In Chapter 6, Wilkins discusses how the disclaimer clauses. These clauses keep states from exercising authority on Indian land (180). They are an “important but often overlooked tool in the arsenal available to tribes to assert their own sovereignty against state threats” (177). A specific example of a disclaimer clause is Wisconsin’s territorial disclaimer of 1836 which prohibited territories or states from having any authority on Indian land (180). In Native American Church v. Navajo Tribal Council

unconstitutional because of the previous ruling of McCulloch v. Maryland about implied powers. In addition, they did not fight for political democracy because African Americans didn’t have the right to vote. This is seen in The Diary of Phillip Hone, in which he states that “there is hostility to the blacks and an indiscriminate persecution of all whose skins were darker…” (Doc E) The purpose of this was to show the violence occurring in eastern cities, specifically Irish and African Americans. This hostility was

had met up with Toby to apologize for something he had done a few years back, and wanted to make amends with him; or as Toby described, “trying to catch the fog.” Chapter 2 (La Florida - 1863 • Tobias MacIvey – Sol’s grandfather/ Zechariah MacIvey and Toby Cypress’s father. He is a thirty year old man, living in Florida scrub. He had moved

Gubernatorial Election in Florida The 2014 mid-term elections are some of the most telling that the United States has experienced within the past several decades. As President Barack Obama serves out his final term in office, many throughout the country are wondering which of the two major political parties will have the upper hand in government as America moves toward the next Presidential Election of 2016. In recent years, Florida has been considered one of the closest “battleground states” in all of the

Jackson Not only was President Andrew Jackson a major player in making our government the two party system that it is today, he also is noted for accomplishing the Indian Removal Act, vetoing the renewal of the charter with the Bank of the United States, and at the same time making several enemies along the way. Our seventh president had a reputation for being a bully and sticking to what he wanted without much care of what others thought. In 1813, he was ordered to take a troop of TN militia to

suggest for your consideration…. setting apart an ample district west of the Mississippi...to be guaranteed to the Indian tribes as long as they shall occupy it.... This emigration should be voluntary...(but) if they remain within the limits of the states they must be subject to their laws.” (Document 8). Andrew Jackson is saying in this letter to congress is that he told all of the Native Americans living between the limits must leave or he will use force to kill all of them or force them to leave