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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... land from the Indians by a private person without the permission of the U.S. Congress is prohibited . This ends such transactions as the 1775 purchase of Cherokee land by the Transylvania Land Company of North Carolina . TREA . The ...
... LAND . The U.S. Senate extends the Indian Claims Commission to 1967 , with 468 tribal claims pending . The commission offers compen- sation for lands taken by whites from the Western Shoshones . After a 15 - year court battle , this rul ...
... LAND . Florida Seminoles reject an award of $ 12.3 million from the Indian Claims Commis- sion for lands taken in 1823 and 1832 by the U.S. military , and by the Indian Removal Act of 1840. For many years the Seminoles had been trying ...
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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 |