This book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate ...
作者:Sheila Wyborny 出版社:Greenhaven Pr 出版年:2004-9 页数:48 定价:$ 32.32 装帧:LIB ISBN:9780737726237 豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到 推荐 我要写书评 Native Americans of the Northeast的书评 ···(全部 0 条)...
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...
European settlers first arrived in eastern North America in the 1500s and 1600s. They brought much hardship to Native Americans. They exposed Native Americans to European diseases, which swept the continent. Many Native Americans died from these diseases before they even saw the newcomers. 16世纪,...
In a small cave southeast of Hueco Tanks, north of the village of Fort Hancock, Texas, we find intriguing rock paintings of a jaguar, a Horned Serpent and Tlaloc. In another cave, this one northeast of Hueco Tanks, just north of the Texas/New Mexico border, we find an especially hauntin...
Native Americans also featured prominently in the Yankee (Nantucket-based) whaling fleet, often making up half and sometimes all of the crew of whaling ships in the first half of the 1700s. Motifs and Symbols: The Wampanoag and other Northeast tribes had a mostly utilitarian material culture ...
Native American tribes are as varied as the landscapes they inhabited. From coastal climes to deserts, from the mountains to the plains, tribes adapted to regions they inhabited. In the Northeast, modern-day New England, tribes practiced some agriculture, along with hunting and gathering when seas...
A third group suggests that Dobyns’s estimates may be too low because they do not account for pre-Columbian contact between Native Americans and Europeans. This group notes that severe epidemics of European diseases may have begun in North America in the late 10th or early 11th century, when...
Native Americans, also known as American Indians and Indigenous Americans, are the indigenous peoples of the United States. By the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million Native Americans we
Picture from the US Dept. of the Interior, 1891. This longhouse has a gable (triangular) roof. Some longhouses had a rounded roof instead. Longhouseswere used by the Iroquois tribes and others in the northeast. They were big, fairly permanent, and kept out much of the rain and wind. ...