Rich, complex societies existed in America long before European settlers arrived. These articles explore the cultures of Native communities, the genocide and oppression they have endured, and their continuing efforts to bring about social and environment
Five hundred years ago, when Ponce de Leon landed on the shores of Florida, 27 million acres of virgin timber - chiefly longleaf, slash pine and large areas of cypress, loblolly pine, sand pine, palms, and oaks - covered the land that constitutes the state today. Of the 15 million ...
In the mid to late 1700s, Native Americans from Georgia, Alabama and other states, including tribes of the Creek Nation such as the Miccosukee, migrated to Florida to escape European expansion. They were joined by escaped enslaved people, as Spain had announced that anyone who made it to Flo...
Accessible only by boat, this remote hideaway is heralded as the ceremonial capital of the Calusa, a civilization of prehistoric Native Americans that ruled the waters of southwest Florida for more than 2,000 years. For a glimpse into the past, explore interpretive displays along the quarter-mil...
In the Southeast are the Cherokee tribe along with the Seminole and Chickasaw in Florida. Unlike those in the Great Plains, these tribes are known farmers who settled in one territory. In the Southwest, homes made of adobe bricks were owned by the Apache and Navajo Nations. Prior to the ar...
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The history of the United States is a history of people on the move. The Native Americans came to North America thousands of years ago. Some of them built villages and stayed there; but many moved from place to place. The first travelers from Europe came to live in an unknown land. At...
Angeles/Long Beach, and San Diego, as well as in the national research laboratories of Lawrence Livermore, California; Los Alamos, New Mexico; Argonne Laboratory in Illinois; Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California; and NASA Space Centers in Houston, Texas, and Cape Canaveral, Florida....
Between 1540 and 1570 several Spanish explorers from the Florida Gulf region explored portions of North Carolina, but again no permanent settlements were established. Coastal North Carolina was the scene of the first attempt to colonize America by English-speaking people. Two colonies were begun in ...
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