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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... killed in the surprise attack . Opechancanough had led an earlier uprising against the Virginia colony in 1622. The Virginia colonists move to retaliate , and the fighting con- tinues for two years . Opechancanough will be captured in ...
... kill buffaloes . . .During my engagement as hunter for the company , which covered a period of eighteen months , I killed 4,280 buffaloes . " William " Buffalo Bill " Cody on his career as a professional buf- falo hunter ( Sell 1955 ...
... killed in the Battle of Muddy Creek in Montana , as he tries to sur- render to U.S. troops . Crazy Horse is killed while a prisoner on September 5 , 1877. On September 9 , Lakota Sioux war leader American Horse is killed in battle . On ...
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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 |