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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... 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 Treaty of Paris ends the American ...
... person workforce . EDUC . The National Indian Education Associa- tion ( NIEA ) is founded in Minneapolis , Minne- sota , to improve the quality of schooling for American Indian and Alaska native students . NIEA will become the largest ...
... person to serve as commissioner . 1974 ARCH . The Archaeological Recovery Act sets aside monies to recover or salvage Indian burial grounds and other significant archaeological sites that are endangered by the construction of dams and ...
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17th Century | 21 |
18th Century | 37 |
19th Century | 55 |
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