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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... leader Massasoit shows compassion to the survivors and sends an Abenaki Indian named Samoset to the English set- tlement . Samoset had learned a little English from coastal fishermen , and greets the Pilgrims in Eng- lish , and is ...
... leader Wamsutta ( the son of Massasoit , who had worked hard to maintain peaceful relations with the English ) to Plymouth after suspecting a planned Indian attack . He is taken at gunpoint , held for intensive questioning , and soon ...
... leader American Horse is killed in battle . On November 25 , U.S. troops destroy Cheyenne leader Dull Knife's camp of 183 lodges along the Powder River in present - day Wyoming . By the end of 1877 , the United States takes control of ...
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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 |