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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... British . 1750 EDUC . Moor's Indian Charity School is founded in Connecticut . It will move to New Hampshire in 1769 and become Dartmouth College , which encourages enrollment of Indians . WARS . Ojibwe ( Chippewa ) Indians defeat Sioux ...
... British force of 1,500 from Virginia is defeated on July 9 by French and Indian forces on the Monongahela River , seven miles from Fort Duquesne . Nearly 1,000 British colonists are killed or wounded , and General Braddock sus- tains ...
... British soldiers at Fort Pitt ( present - day Pittsburgh ) give Indians blankets that had belonged to smallpox victims , spreading smallpox through the Lenni Lenape ( Delaware ) and Shawnee village , killing much of their popu- lation ...
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17th Century | 21 |
18th Century | 37 |
19th Century | 55 |
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American Indian Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic Phillip M. White Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |