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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... diseases and plagues , and starvation . North America is no exception . When the European explorers and colonizers arrived in the New World they brought dis- eases and plagues new to the Indians ( cholera , influenza , typhus , malaria ...
... disease and exposure . 1621 AGRI . Squanto ( or , Tisquantum ) , the Wampanoag Indian kidnapped by slaver Thomas Hunt in 1615 , has made his way back from Spain to the Plymouth colony on Cape Cod Bay in March . The Plymouth Pilgrims ...
... disease spreads in the South- east , killing almost half the Cherokee population , and also reaching tribes in western Canada . 1739-1741 EXPL . French fur traders Paul and Pierre Mallet explore the Missouri , Platte , and Cana- dian ...
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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 |