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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... never quailed , nor did his eye , which bore a perfectly stolid expression , reveal the slightest trace of suffering . The initiates danced while attached to the center pole , continuing to pull on the ropes until by degrees the wooden ...
... never adjusted to his new life . When he was ushered into the guardhouse at Fort Robinson , Nebraska , he resisted and was stabbed . His dying words were : " I was hostile to the white man ... We preferred hunting to a life of idleness ...
... never used . The Torres - Martinez Band of Desert Cahuilla Indians receives $ 14 million in compensation for reservation lands flooded by the Colorado River in 1906. After 18 years of litigation , Congress grants the money to the 659 ...
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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 |