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Native American Persuasive Speech

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I have come to address a major problem that our people have been facing. The white men are taking everything from us, they have taken our life, our language, our families, culture, and now our land. When will it stop? We can’t even fight back, because if we do, not only will we get killed, our culture becomes destroyed as well. Look at the Cheyenne tribe, they try to fight for their rights and what do they get? A bloody massacre which resulted in the deaths of 270 of our kind, and most of them were women and children. Then when the Sioux retaliated against the white for committing this atrocity, they got launched into a battle between the white men. We won but at a cost of 100 of our people. All we want is to keep the land the white people
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