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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... Cheyenne camp of Chief Black Kettle on the Washita River in Oklahoma is attacked by the U.S. Seventh Cavalry under Lt. Col. George A. Custer . A war party of young Cheyenne men had been raiding white settlements in Kansas . Custer ...
... Cheyenne , Arapaho , Comanche , and Kiowa tribes to save the few remaining buffalo herds from destruction by white hunters . Chief Qua- nah Parker and his Comanche braves will give up their fight against the buffalo hunters and surren ...
... Cheyenne , and Arapaho Indians on the Little Big Horn River in the territory of Montana . The Indians , led by chiefs Sitting Bull , Crazy Horse , and Gall , overwhelm Custer's troops . In the fall of 1876 , the United States ...
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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 |