American Indian Chronology: Chronologies of the American MosaicBloomsbury Academic, 2006 M08 30 - 184 páginas The rich history of the Native American brims with agriculture, hunting, crafts, music, culinary arts, storytelling, religious culture, battle prowess, medicine, and mythology. It is also a history marked by bloodshed and battle, conquest, violence, religious conflict, disease, and starvation. American Indian Chronology guides the reader through the most significant events in Native North American history, from prehistory to the present. From early Spanish and Portuguese exploration to the surrender of Geronimo, from the decline of the fur trade to the Wounded Knee massacre, from smallpox epidemics and broken treaties to the invention of the Cherokee alphabet, from Tecumseh's rebellion to the Native American Church, from the first journey across the Bering land bridge to the occupation of Alcatraz Island, the Chronology presents a fascinating look into the sweeping changes of history, wars and conflicts, government policies, social progress, and cultural changes affecting peoples on all sides in the New World. |
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... River . 1792-1795 EXPL . English explorer George Vancouver explores the Pacific Northwest . 1793 EXPL . Alexander Mackenzie , a Scottish fur trader , explorer , and employee of the North West Company , leads an overland journey that ...
... River . The goal of the expedition is to determine whether the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean are linked by a river system . In the absence of any such water connection they pioneer an overland route across the Rocky Mountains to ...
... River for Indians to be free to inhabit . This proposal is vetoed by the United States , but the U.S. government does agree to a clause requir- ing that a separate peace treaty be signed with each tribe that was allied with Britain ...
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17th Century | 21 |
18th Century | 37 |
19th Century | 55 |
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