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1539
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Hernando De Soto lands in Flordia in search of gold
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1607
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First successful English colony Jamestown (now Virginia)
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1620
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Plymouth, MA. Colony
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1636
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Peqot War - First war with Indians in New England
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Indian Removal Act of 1830
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Required Indians to give up their land and made them move to less valuable land in the West. - Johnson VS. M’ Intosh proposed the Indian Removal Act
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• NATIVE AMERICANS COULD OCCUPY LAND IN THE UNTIES STATES BUT COULD NOT HODL TITLE TO THAT LAND
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1833
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American soldiers were called in to move the Cherokee from the land and burn their homes - 4,000 Cherokee died of disease, starvation, murder, exposure.
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Great Seminal Leader Osceola
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Lead his tribe into the swamps of the Everglades - Used hit and run tactics to avoid the American soldiers for many years until Osceola was captured and the followers surrendered.
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1861-1865
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Civil War
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1851/1868 Fort Laramie, WY
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Indians were to stay on reservations - areas of land set aside for the Indians.
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Treaty
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Touchstones
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Really important cultural events
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Minnesota Massacre
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Su Warriors moved out of the reservation and attacked settlers and little towns in NW Iowa, Southern Minnesota and part of the Eastern Dakotas
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Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
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November 29, 1864 ---> US Soldiers attacked a peaceful Indians village near San Creek, CO -- Just women and children/ no men to defend
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Sand Creek Massacre (1864) US. Leader
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Colonel John M. Chivington
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John Evans
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Gov. of Colorado at the time of the Sand Creek Massacre
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1492
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Columbus goes to New Land
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1537
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the Pope declares Native Americans have souls
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1874
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Gold Diggers take over the black hills despite Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
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1876
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The Battle of Little Big Horn - Custard lead an attack on what looked to be a village of 100 but turned out to be a meeting of tribes numbering to about 1200. Ratio of Native Americans to whites was 10:1
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Wounded Knee Massacre
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December 29, 1890: Pine Ridge Reservation,SD one warrior did not understand the order given to him by a white soldier, didn’t hand over his weapon, and shots were fired. The Calvary opened fire and massacred 200 men, women and children.
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Native American Areas
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Great Plains
Southeast Eastern Woodlands Plateau Great Basin Southwest |
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Cliff Dwellers
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EX. Mesa Verde - Located on the Four-Corners Area of the US
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Plain's Indians
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Traditional stereotype of Indians
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Eskimos
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Live in igloos/Eat seals
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19,000
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The first people arrived in North America via the Bering Land Bridge and Coastal routes
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Bering Land Bridge
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arose ca. 70,000 years ago and was above water until about 11,000 years ago.
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Clovis People
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The First Migration - fluted projectile points
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Ancestors of the Na-Dene People (The Second Migration)
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Lived in Alaska and western Canada
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Ancestors of the Inuit, Yupik and Aleut People (The Third Migration)
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Eskimos
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Australopithecus
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hominid
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Smallpox
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•Incubation period is 2 weeks. Same length as the Atlantic crossing
•Reached all areas of the New World long before Europeans did •May have wiped out up to 80% of population of New World |
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4.5 million years ago
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Earliest know hominid species dated to this date. Ethopia, North Africa
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195,000 years ago
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earliest know Homo sapiens remains date to this time. They were found in Ethiopia by Richard Leakey
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60,000 years ago
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Homo sapiens present in Australia
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14,500 years ago
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earliest archaeological site in the Americas – Monte Verde, Chile
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1492
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Columbus goes to New Land
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1537
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the Pope declares Native Americans have souls
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