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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... Texas . In Texas , Chief Bowles will become the civil chief or peace chief of a council that unites several Chero- kee villages . In 1836 , Sam Houston will negotiate a treaty with the east Texas Cherokee , guaranteeing the tribe ...
... Texas where they become farmers and ranchers , building houses and sending their chil- dren to school . In 1859 , however , white settlers will drive them out of Texas to Indian Territory ( present - day Oklahoma ) , where they are ...
... Texas Rangers attack a group of 300 Comanches . The Rangers kill half the Indi- ans and intimidate the rest with Colt revolvers that can fire six shots without reloading . 1844 PUBL . The first issues of the Cherokee Advocate newspaper ...
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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 |