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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... island are the Taino peo- ple , a subgroup of the Arawak ethnic group of the Greater Antilles islands . They call their island Guanahaní . According to Columbus's diary , these people are friendly , willing to communicate , and eager to ...
... Island , off the California coast . The woman has lived alone on the island for 18 years since the rest of her tribe , the San Nicolas Chu- mash , were moved to the mainland by mission priests . All of those Chumash have already died of ...
... island until June 1971. The Indians call them- selves " Indians of All Tribes , " and want the island to replace the San Francisco American Indian Center ( which had burned down on November 1 , 1969 ) and to establish a Center for ...
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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 |