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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... serve fish . C. 4000 BC - AD 300 HUNT . In what is now western Alberta , Can- ada , buffalo jumps take place off high cliffs , such as at the Head - Smashed - In site . Herds of buffalo are stampeded over the cliffs by bands of Indians ...
... serve as interpreters . She helps guide the group up the Missouri River and through the Rocky Mountain passes of Montana and Wyoming to the land of the Shoshone people from whom she was taken at age 13 . Sacagawea ( 1786-1812 ? ) was ...
... serve on active duty in the U.S. military , with around 45,000 more serving in wartime indus- tries . Navajo ( Dineh ) , Choctaw , and Comanche code talkers use their native languages as a battle- field code . A special unit of Navajo ...
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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 |