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With the introduction of MTV in the early 1990s, Indians began to be exposed to various forms of rock such as grunge and speed metal.
After witnessing racism, prejudice and injustice against Indians in South Africa, Gandhi began to question his place in society and his people's standing in the British Empire.
Irala maintained good relations with the Guaraní, pacified hostile Indians, made further explorations of the Chaco, and began trade relations with Peru.
Pope's phrase, " Lo the Poor Indian ", became almost as famous as Dryden's " noble savage " and, in the 19th century, when more people began to have first hand knowledge of and conflict with the Indians, would be used derisively for similar sarcastic effect.
Narragansett Indians receiving Roger WilliamsIn the spring of 1636 Williams and a number of his followers from Salem began a settlement on land that Williams had bought from Massasoit, only to be told by Plymouth that he was still within their land grant.
During the late Archaic and Woodland Period, Indians in the region began to cultivate plants such as marsh elder, lambsquarters, pigweed, sunflowers and some native squash.
Ten years later, the first group of Orthodox Christian missionaries began to arrive, evangelizing thousands of Indians, many of whose descendents continue to maintain the religion.
Fortune brightened for the Indians around the turn of the 20th century when Cândido Rondon, a man of both Portuguese and Bororo ancestry, and an explorer and progressive officer in the Brazilian army, began working to gain the Indians ' trust and establish peace.
During the social and political upheaval in the 1960s, reports of mistreatment of Indians increasingly reached Brazil's urban centers and began to affect Brazilian thinking.
In 1954, the United States Department of the Interior ( DOI ) began implementing the termination and relocation phases of the Act, which had been added by Congress and represented the continuing interest by some of having American Indians assimilate to the majority society.
Efforts to make a wider peace continued, but in the spring of 1864, John Evans, governor of Colorado Territory, and John Chivington, commander of the Colorado Volunteers, a citizens militia, began a series of attacks on Indians camping or hunting on the plains.
From 1828-1858, the vacant church began to decay and local Indians, concerned about their church, started preserving what they could.
Early in 1869, however, settlers began to cross the Verdigris River, " at first under protest of the Indians, but the immense throng of settlers soon made all protests futile.
Within a few years, enterprising Indians and tribes began to operate Indian bingo operations in numerous different locations around the United States.
Six teams – the Belleville Stags, the Centralia Cubs, the Marion Indians, the Mattoon Indians or East Frankfort White Sox, the Mount Vernon Braves, and the West Frankfort Cardinals – began operating as the Class D Illinois State League in 1947.
" However, Governor Troup of Georgia ignored the new treaty and began to forcibly remove the Indians under the terms of the earlier treaty.
The British also began landing Indians on both Valcour Island and the lakeshore, in order to deny the Americans the possibility of retreating to land.
The Doeg Indians maintained several villages in this area into the 1650s, when colonists began to patent the land.
Marcy also met with Sanaco and the Tecumseh leaders of the southern band of Comanche Indians in an attempt to persuade them to more to the reservation, which they began doing in 1855.
Around 1800, Europeans began settling the land east of the Mississippi River that was inhabited by the Chickasaw Indians for centuries prior to the arrival of Europeans.
However, the party had established itself in the mainstream of Indian politics and soon began expanding its organization to attract young Indians throughout the country.
During the 1994 baseball strike, which began on August 12, Winfield was traded to the Cleveland Indians at the trade waiver deadline on August 31 for a " player to be named later.

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With childlike innocence she wrote of the Indians as `` walking with fruit and umbrellas in their hands, with the tawny children around them.
The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.
You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.
But it coupled with this a requirement that Indians must bring their pelts to Mobile and thus save all costs of transportation into and out of the Indian country.
Nischwitz was working on a 3-hitter when the Indians bunched three of their eight hits for two runs in the sixth.
A pitiful few of them are left now, to subsist mainly on the tourist trade and to sing their ancient tribal chants, which have the same haunting sadness as the laments of the American Indians.
The Alabama, Coosa, and Tallapoosa rivers were central to the homeland of the Creek Indians before their removal by United States forces to the Indian Territory in the 1830s. In 1712 the Alabama River was descovered.
Classical civilizations, notably the Assyrians, Persians, Parthians, Indians, Koreans, Chinese, Japanese and Turks fielded large numbers of archers in their armies.
Whale was hunted by American Indians off the Northwest coast, especially by the Makah, and used for their meat and oil.
Since their establishment as a Major League franchise in 1901, the Indians have won two World Series championships, in 1920 and 1948.
Common nicknames for the Indians include the " Tribe " and the " Wahoos ," the latter being a reference to their logo, Chief Wahoo.
The Indians, who at the time were locked in a tight three-way pennant race with the Yankees and White Sox, were not slowed down by the death of their teammate.
Prior to 1947 the Indians played most of their games at League Park, and occasionally played weekend games at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
Making the most of the cavernous stadium, Veeck had a portable center field fence installed, which he could move in or out depending on how the distance favored the Indians against their opponents in a given series.
In the series, the Indians defeated the Boston Braves four games to two for their first championship in 28 years.
On September 23, 1949, Bill Veeck and the Indians buried their 1948 pennant in center field the day after they were mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
Taking their third consecutive AL Central title, the Indians defeated the New York Yankees in the Division Series, 3 – 2.
However, the season came to an end as the Indians went on to lose six of their last seven games, five of them by one run, missing the playoffs by only two games.
The Indians finished with a 96 – 66 record tied with the Red Sox for best in baseball, their seventh Central Division title in 13 years and their first post-season trip since 2001.
The Indians finished the season tied for fourth in their division,
The Indians started the 2011 season strong-going 30-15 in their first 45 games and seven games ahead of the Detroit Tigers for first place.
The Indians sent their top two pitchers in the minors, Alex White and Drew Pomeranz along with Joe Gardner and Matt McBride.
As the Indians play 19 games every year with their A. L.

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