New PDF release: The Survival Handbook

By Peter Darman

ISBN-10: 0747245800

ISBN-13: 9780747245803

Offers suggestion on suriving in adverse environments and contains pointers on shelters, traps, guns, instruments, food-finding, signaling, first reduction, and different life-saving themes.

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In 1776, Virginia handed out 400 acres free of charge to each settler, and the next year North Carolina gave away 640 acres of unclaimed land a. The state eventually favored speculators, who bought Maine land in large blocks to divide up and parcel out. 35 Nine-Tenths of the Law to any settler who wanted it. 10 The United States continued to voraciously consume land. In 1819, the federal government acquired Florida from Spain. In 1845, it acquired Texas from the Republic of Texas. In 1846, it acquired Oregon territory from Great Britain by treaty.

Ward Churchill writes in his essay “Perversion of Justice” that “a person or a people [was] ultimately entitled to only that quantity of real estate which s/he/they convert from ‘wilderness’ to a ‘domesticated’ state. ”3 This practice would nearly always eliminate Native Americans’ claim to land. 4 Possibly anticipating the Revolution of 1776, in 1773 George Washington, among others, defied the king’s proclamation in order to pursue land speculation further west. At this point, the motives of the burgeoning new nation became possibly more dubious than those of Great Britain.

According to Johnson, it is impossible to know exactly how much money was donated to the cause because of poor record keeping, but estimates range from $20–25 million. Donors included musicians with names as big as Malvina Reynolds, Creedance Clearwater Revival, and the Grateful Dead. Needless to say, the Indians were fiscally free to do as they pleased on the island, as all of their basic needs were taken care of by donations. ” The Indians engaged in small-scale warfare by tossing Molotov cocktails at the Coast Guard boats and shooting arrows and stones at passing ferries in response to passengers’ obscene gestures and remarks.

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