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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... England with her hus- band John Rolfe and her infant son , Thomas . HEAL . A massive smallpox epidemic strikes New England tribes during a three - year period . As many as 90 percent of the Indian population of the region between ...
... England and France united against Spain . The con- flict soon extends to North America , drawing many Indian tribes to be allied with the European powers in their battles . This is the second of the French and Indian Wars , between England ...
... England and Spain over treaties . The Indi- ans are not able to capture St. Augustine and retreat back to Georgia . 1741 CONT . Vitus Bering , a Danish navigator in ser- vice to Russia , reaches Alaska with an exploration party . These ...
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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 |