From the luggage, they learned that the two air pirates, far from being Cubans, were native Americans, subsequently identified as Leon Bearden, 50-year-old ex-convict from Coolidge, Ariz., and his son, Cody, 16, a high-school junior.

Wills not only learned traditional music from his family, he learned some Negro songs directly from African Americans in the cotton fields near Lakeview, Texas and said that he did not play with many white children other than his siblings, until he was seven or eight years old.

For that, he met with a scientist from Yale, and as a result of that conversation, he learned that three percent of all Americans believed they were kidnapped by aliens.

But the German defenders had the advantage in that their commanders and many of their soldiers had been fighting for a few years and had learned the necessary tactics for fighting efficiently in winter and forested areas, whereas the Americans were often well-trained but inexperienced.

While the lake was well known by local Native Americans, it entered the annals of written history through the records of Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, who learned of its existence from the Timpanogos Utes in 1776.

The rancho workers were primarily Native Americans, many of them former residents of the missions who had learned to speak Spanish and ride horses.

In 1655, Oratam, sachem of the Hackensack, deeded a large tract nearby to Sara Kiersted, who had learned the native language and was instrumental in negotiations between Native Americans and the settlers.

Electrical wires are placed around his ears, and the Iraqi intelligence officer, Captain Saïd ( Saïd Taghmaoui ), explains that he learned interrogation techniques from the Americans and berates him about the hypocrisy of American involvement in the region.

Native Americans learned of E. angustifolia by observing elk seeking out the plants and consuming them when sick or wounded, and identified those plants as elk root.

Growing up in southern Illinois, which had long been influenced by Southern migrants and culture, he learned about some relationships between African Americans and whites, and their misunderstandings.

Though he managed to complete all the courses easily, a lack of qualified teachers meant that Baker was first sent to a school in England for more training and then back to France to teach Americans what he had learned in England, in an attempt to create pilots as quickly as possible.

Late in the year the Americans learned that the British government had decided to cancel the attack on Canada.

In 1959, when Deerfield officials learned that a developer building a neighborhood of large new homes planned to make houses available to African Americans, they issued a stop-work order.

The English who came to America in the 16th and 17th centuries learned about popcorn from the Native Americans.

It was there that he decided that the predisposition of Americans to see blacks as inferior was a learned viewpoint.

Sweeney had learned his banjo playing and repertoire from enslaved African Americans around his native Appomattox, Virginia.

When Europeans arrived, they learned of the legends from the Native Americans.

Violence finally erupted after the Native Americans learned in early 1763 of the imminent French cession of the pays d ' en haut to the British.

Before other British outposts had learned about Pontiac's siege at Detroit, Native Americans captured five small forts in a series of attacks between May 16 and June 2.

By that time it was clear to the trappers that Miera's map ( if they had seen it ) was wrong, for they had learned from the Native Americans that the Green River drained to the Colorado River and the Gulf of California.

Once he learned of the column's presence, Forster had a detachment ambush the Americans from positions astride the only available path through the forest.

Heath, who learned about the alert only from press reports hours later, confessed: ‘ I have found considerable alarm as to what use the Americans would have been able to make of their forces here without in any way consulting us or considering the British interests .’ The incident marked ' a low ebb ' in the special relationship.

Americans learned aboard Skylab and earlier space missions that this level of control was not productive and had since made mission plans more flexible.

This British practice of taking British deserters, and often Americans, from American ships and forcing them into the Royal Navy increased greatly after 1803, and caused bitter anger in the United States.

The film begins with a bugler playing " Taps " and an overlay of text stating that Americans have been accustomed to military victory, but cites Valley Forge and The Lost Battalion as examples of times where undermanned groups fought to the bitter end for America.

In the Dutch west end of the Island there was bitter fighting between the Native Americans and the Dutch.

Throughout her career with the National Woman ’ s Party, Burns was known to have a bitter sense of injustice and become angry because of the actions of the President or apathetic Americans.

On May 20, 2004 he announced that the time of bitter fighting in Fallujah was ended, and that Iraqis and Americans were now working together on rebuilding the city.

A band of 9, 000 pro-Union Native Americans was forced to flee to Kansas in bitter cold and snow in what became known as the Trail of Blood on Ice.

The bitter taste of Beverly has become familiar to many Americans after trying it at Coca-Cola tasting stations at the World of Coca-Cola museums in Atlanta, Georgia, at Las Vegas, Nevada, and at Club Cool at Epcot in Orlando, Florida.

Many Native Americans are bitter about the deracination that took place at the Indian boarding schools, and the experiences suffered by children taken from their families.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

*” From Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans ”, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plans

Who's going to control your people ?” It was supposedly there, in her living room, that she decided to combine a lesson she had planned about Native Americans with the lesson done about King for February ’ s Hero of the Month.

When white people sit down to discuss racism what they are experiencing is shared ignorance .” She states her lesson plan for that day was to learn the Sioux prayer about not judging someone without walking in his / her moccasins and “ I treated them as we treat Hispanics, Chicanos, Latinos, Blacks, Asians, Native Americans, women, people with disabilities .”

One of the lesson plans, compiled together under the title " Remember September 11 " and appearing on NEA's Health Information Network Website ( www. neahin. org )-- suggested that teachers discuss " historical instances of American intolerance " and cites the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as an example.

*” From Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans ”, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan

Instead he withdrew his warriors, believing that the English would behave as Native Americans would when defeated: pack up and leave, or learn their lesson and respect the power of the Powhatan.

* 1966 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

In the Vietnam War, the Americans " defoliated countless trees in areas where the communist North Vietnamese troops hid supply lines and conducted guerrilla warfare ", ( see Operation Ranch Hand ).

Americans experienced this in Vietnam and during the US invasion of Iraqi and occupation, where shortages of Arabic speaking interpreters and translators hindered both civil and military operations.

* 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.

The Americans ultimately deployed a mechanized brigade and ten mechanized battalions to Vietnam.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.

This confirmed for the first time to the U. S. Military ( naval intelligence ) and Americans that American POW's were being tortured in North Vietnam.

The documentary In the Shadow of the Blade ( released 2004 ) reunited Vietnam veterans and families of war dead with a restored UH-1 " Huey " helicopter in a cross-country journey to tell the stories of Americans affected by the war.

* August 16 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee starts investigating Americans who have aided the Viet Cong, with the intent to make these activities illegal.

** Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there ( no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp ; all U. S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid ).

** The Harris Poll claims that 60 % of Americans are against the Vietnam War.

* November 3 – Vietnam War – Battle of Dak To: Around Dak To ( located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border ), heavy casualties are suffered on both sides ( the Americans narrowly win the battle on November 22 ).

** Vietnam War: Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in South Vietnam, supposedly at the request of the Saigon government ( it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of the Americans ).

* April 30 – Vietnam War: The Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces from North Vietnam take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuations of Americans and South Vietnamese.

However, the Americans were worried by Powell's speech as they wanted British military commitments in South-East Asia as they were still fighting in Vietnam.

Early on the 5 August Johnson publicly ordered retaliatory measures stating, " The determination of all Americans to carry out our full commitment to the people and to the government of South Vietnam will be redoubled by this outrage.

In North Vietnam, Fonda was photographed seated on an anti-aircraft battery ; the controversial photo outraged a number of Americans.

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam.

Throughout the Vietnam War, Lê had held an aggressive posture against the Americans.

However, the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam ( NLF ) were able to dictate the pace of attrition to fit their own goals: by continuing to fight a guerrilla war and avoiding large-unit battles, they denied the Americans the chance to fight the kind of war they were best at, and they ensured that attrition would wear down the American public's support for the war faster than them.