The $24 Swindle
The Indians who sold Manhattan were bilked, all right, but they didn’t mind—the land wasn’t theirs anywayNathaniel BenchleyDecember 1959By now it is probably too late to do anything about it, but the...
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So spoke Sitting Bull, greatest of Sioux chiefs, as he bitterly watched his people bargain away their Dakota homelandDorothy RosenbergJune 1964If Sitting Bull had not put his faith in a miracle, in...
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Two hundred and fifty years ago, Major Robert Rogers and his rangers launched a daring wilderness raid against an enemy village, but paid a steep priceJohn F. RossSummer 2009A dozen miles north of the...
View ArticleA Pox On The New World
As much as nine-tenths of the indigenous population of the Americas died in less than a generation from European pathogens Charles C. MannWinter 2010In the summer of 1605 the French explorer Samuel de...
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