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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... reservations and become farmers . Few will opt for the opportunity , though . The act will be superseded by the 1887 Dawes Act , under which Indians will be allotted reservation lands on an individual basis . WARS . The Red River War ...
... Reservation in Nebraska . The Bureau of Indian Affairs hires her as the sole reservation doctor , serving over 1,000 Indians . LAND . Two million acres in the center of Indian Territory ( which will become Oklahoma Terri- tory in the ...
... Reservation of the Mojave and Chemehuevi Indians . The camp is one of 10 internment camps built to hold Japa- nese Americans during the war . The government will finance land improvements and an irrigation system on the reservation in ...
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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 |