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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... EDUC . Congress appropriates funds to " civilize and educate " the Indians . The sum of money not to exceed $ 15,000 a year . LAND . Georgia cedes to the United States its claims to lands west of the present - day state boundary . In ...
... EDUC . The Roe Indian Institute , the only Indian- run high school in the United States , is established in Wichita , Kansas . Founded by Henry Roe Cloud , a Winnebago educator and Yale University graduate , the prep school will later ...
... EDUC . The BIA begins a 5 - year pilot project to teach English as a second language to Alaska's Inuit children . Deganawida - Quetzalcoatl University ( also known as D - Q University ) is established near Davis , California , and opens ...
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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 |