America ComparedConquering And Settling

The West

By: Kyle Pollitt

Indian Societies Under Siege in the United States and Canada

The Indians considered the white man an invader and fought long and hard to keep the land that they have lived on for decades.

Canada pushed their Indians farther west. Some tribes fought while others tried to

work with the Canadian government. The end of the nineteenth centaury

incorporated the Indians into being a productive part of the Canadian economy.

Gridded Lives

Compares Billings Montana with Karaganda Kazakhastan

One town in the US northwest developed from a railroad community and one town in Central Asia developed by the Soviet Union as a prison town.

The author considers communism and capitalism as parallel ideologies and both countries followed similar paths in development and destruction.