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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... WARS . The Iroquois Confederacy is angered by the poor treatment of Indians by the French . They attack Montreal in New France on July 26 , killing around 1,000 colonists and burning their plantations . The Abenaki War against the New ...
... WARS . Ojibwe ( Chippewa ) Indians defeat Sioux tribesmen at the Battle of Kathio and gain undis- puted possession of wild rice stands in the lakes of northern Minnesota . 1751 LAWS . A regulation to curb the abuses of whis- key trading ...
... war between the French and British . 1755-1756 POLI . The Iroquois League is persuaded to break its neutrality and side with England against France . 1757 WARS . Fort William Henry , on Lake George in what is now New York state , is ...
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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 |