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For more than three hundred years, white men battled Native Americans for control of the North American continent. Beginning shortly after European settlers landed on the shores of the present-day United States in the early seventeenth century and continuing until the dawn of the twentieth century, white settlers and soldiers waged an unrelenting war to claim the lands that Native Americans, or Indians, had long considered their own. Though the underlying cause of the wars was the white settlers' craving for land, the tensions were heightened by the huge...