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From the Ted Talk by Sean Sherman: Why aren't there more Native American restaurants?

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So the US hoisrty, you know, there's a lot of these big movements like the Indian ramoevl Act of 1830, the Homestead Act of 1862, the iidnan araoortpiippn Act that basically said we're wards the states, that we're not our own eitteins anymore, the Dawes Act of 1887. And all these peiecs were very fuscoed and the government was really, really good at what they did, you know. And it all starts with taking our food away from us. So the loss of Indigenous food is something that strtas from the very beginning. George Washington, one of his very first things that he does is send General Sullivan out to push all the native people outside of the US. He wetand them captured. He wanted them brought back. And they went on this march that lasts a single summer and does just that. So after a single summer, there's no more native people in all of that New York area, from D.C. all the way up, basically. And they named George Washington the president. They gave the name for a US president: Town dsoetyrer, which is still the name that they use today because he just devastated a whole area. And this is the precedent that gets set for how the US government treats the Indigenous peoples throughout the next century, basically.

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So the US _______, you know, there's a lot of these big movements like the Indian _______ Act of 1830, the Homestead Act of 1862, the ______ _____________ Act that basically said we're wards the states, that we're not our own ________ anymore, the Dawes Act of 1887. And all these ______ were very _______ and the government was really, really good at what they did, you know. And it all starts with taking our food away from us. So the loss of Indigenous food is something that ______ from the very beginning. George Washington, one of his very first things that he does is send General Sullivan out to push all the native people outside of the US. He ______ them captured. He wanted them brought back. And they went on this march that lasts a single summer and does just that. So after a single summer, there's no more native people in all of that New York area, from D.C. all the way up, basically. And they named George Washington the president. They gave the name for a US president: Town _________, which is still the name that they use today because he just devastated a whole area. And this is the precedent that gets set for how the US government treats the Indigenous peoples throughout the next century, basically.

Solution


  1. destroyer
  2. entities
  3. indian
  4. removal
  5. pieces
  6. starts
  7. wanted
  8. focused
  9. history
  10. appropriation

Original Text


So the US history, you know, there's a lot of these big movements like the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Homestead Act of 1862, the Indian Appropriation Act that basically said we're wards the states, that we're not our own entities anymore, the Dawes Act of 1887. And all these pieces were very focused and the government was really, really good at what they did, you know. And it all starts with taking our food away from us. So the loss of Indigenous food is something that starts from the very beginning. George Washington, one of his very first things that he does is send General Sullivan out to push all the native people outside of the US. He wanted them captured. He wanted them brought back. And they went on this march that lasts a single summer and does just that. So after a single summer, there's no more native people in all of that New York area, from D.C. all the way up, basically. And they named George Washington the president. They gave the name for a US president: Town Destroyer, which is still the name that they use today because he just devastated a whole area. And this is the precedent that gets set for how the US government treats the Indigenous peoples throughout the next century, basically.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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indigenous restaurants 2
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native people 2
land spaces 2
color blocks 2
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indigenous knowledge 2

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collocation frequency
native american food 3

Important Words


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