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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... ( Virginia ) to the close of the seventeenth century , the population of the surrounding Indian tribes of coastal Virginia declines from 12,000 to around 3,500 , due to disease and warfare . 1608 POLI . Powhatan ( Wahunsonacock ) , chief ...
... Virginia in the last three years have survived . 1611 TRAD . Champlain builds a fur post at Mon- treal . 1612 AGRI . The English colonists begin to cultivate tobacco . Virginia planter John Rolfe ( who will marry Pocahontas in 1614 ) ...
... Virginia colonists and their Indian neighbors . WARS . On March 22 , Opechancanough , chief of the Powhatan Indians , leads an attack on the English colony of Jamestown killing about 350 colonists , almost a quarter of Virginia's popula ...
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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 |