Word: canada
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...treaties. The promises of the government to give comfortable houses to the Indians have not been observed in one case out of five. When we think of these things, and remember that the Sioux are a people who in years gone by were wont to roam from Kansas to Canada, and from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, can we wonder at their restlessness? By the recent action of Congress in depriving this tribe of half their land, 11,000,000 acres, this restlessness was changed into dissatisfaction, a dissatisfaction which caused them continually to brood over their wrongs, having...
...game is only thirty years old. It originated in England, where for the most part it has been developed. In 1872 the Scotch took up the game and international matches between England and Scotland sprang up. The game has had such popularity in England that is now played in Canada, India, and even South Africa...
...Association game has taken very slight root in the United States; most of the American teams come from Canada...
...School, met at the Infirmary last Wednesday evening and formed a permanent organization, electing the following officers: George B. Perry, president; Joseph Paul, vice-president; Nathan P. Wyllie, secretary and treasurer. The class numbers eighteen members and besides New England, is represented by Germany, Switzerland, France, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, California and Illinois...
...conceptions of the state and sovereignty, of nonfederal relations between states, and of the nature classification and political conditions of federal governments. Then follow short sketches of the ancient and mediaeval confederations and more detailed accounts of the four principal federations of today, the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Canada. The chapter on the Latin-American confederations, giving brief notices of the leagues of this century in Central and South America, including the Brazilian Republic, concludes the history. Although the text takes up hardly seventy-five pages, it is so fully annotated with references and bibliographies that...