Author's IntroductionFew aspects of American history have gone through as rapid a transformation as Native American history during the past generation. In the not too distant past scholars, including many anthr
Archaic subsistence techniques were very efficient, and in a number of culture areas people sustained an essentially Archaic way of life until after European colonization. By about 1000 bce a number of American peoples had become fully reliant upon agriculture for subsistence; their cultures were ...
Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2006). Syntheses of Native American history include Herman J. Viola, After Columbus: The Smithsonian Chronicle of the North American Indians (1990); Angie Debo, A History of the Indians of the United States (1970, reissued 1989), ...
Native American History When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of ‘Civilization’ By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 Indigenous people remained of the estimated 5 million-plus living in North America before European contact. ...
This course will explore Native American cultures and the impacts of colonial and U.S. government policies on them; European colonization with particular focus on the British in North America; the War for Independence against Britain and the framing of the U.S. Constitution; as well as the for...
Native Americans (also Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerind, Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Native Canadians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are those peoples indigenous to the Americas, living there prior to European colonization. This term encompa...
The time period between the 1600s and 1700s was a time of a major change in the land of the New World. The colonization of Europeans into the North America had considerable impacts on the Native American lives. European empire at the time, such as the French, England and Spanish empires...
Before the conquistadors and colonists ventured out to the New World and began destroying and corrupting Native American culture, signs of the first people in the America’s was visible since the ice age, thousands of years ago (History of Native Americans). As the Ice Age ended however, the...
Owned Stations -- came into their collections in a variety of ways. Some were purchased, some were donated and some were transferred from other institutions over the years. But all of these collections have one thing in common: they represent a ...
Native American Day, also known as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, is celebrated in a variety of different ways. In parts of California, there are many educational resources, lectures, and exhibits dedicated to Native Americans and their history on this day. There are also many cultural activities on...