• Small species of brocket deer and pudús of Central and South America, and muntjacs of Asia generally occupy dense forests and are less often seen in open spaces, with the possible exception of the Indian muntjac. (wikipedia.org)
  • Deer are widely distributed, with indigenous representatives in all continents except Antarctica and Australia, though Africa has only one native deer, the Barbary stag, a subspecies of red deer that is confined to the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of the continent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another extinct species of deer, Megaceroides algericus, was present in North Africa until 6000 years ago. (wikipedia.org)
  • Montanans trace their heritage to all world areas, including American Indian tribes and settlers from Europe, South and Central America, Asia, Africa, and Australia. (studymontana.org)
  • TRIVIA: The percentage of wilderness in North America is greater than the percentage of wilderness in Africa. (blackgate.com)
  • Africa has the highest overall elevation of all the continents. (blackgate.com)
  • Situated in a conservation area on the continent of Africa is Sossusvlei, a spectacular and well-known attraction. (lifehack.org)
  • So when you sit down to a Thanksgiving dinner of Turkey, wild rice, roasted or boiled potatoes, corn, squash, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie, thank our Indian friends who introduced those foods to the colonies in the late 17th Century. (hhhistory.com)
  • In the 17th century, the French came to the Great Lakes with guns and goods. (laviedesidees.fr)
  • When Europeans began to invade North America in the 17th century, they saw the vast green woods as forbidding and spiritually dead. (scseagrant.org)
  • Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1770-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. (loc.gov)
  • Beguiled since boyhood by "a taste for the woods and the Indians," Parkman poured his vast talents and energies into memorializing the centuries-long struggle of the Old World for mastery of the New, producing a picture of America's origins that remains unsurpassed-both as analysis and as art. (city-journal.org)
  • ¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 1 O'Sullivan and many others viewed expansion as necessary to achieve America's destiny and to protect American interests. (americanyawp.com)
  • While these individuals' farms helped stake America's claim to the area between the crest of the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, the trappers who traipsed even farther west, through the wilderness beyond the Mississippi River did not. (encyclopedia.com)
  • More permanent settlements were needed there to establish America's claim to the rest of the continent. (encyclopedia.com)
  • I cannot think of a more fitting welcome to North America's last great wilderness-the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (nwf.org)
  • They explored the continent, pioneered its waterways and mountain passes, cleared forests, irrigated deserts, and ranched its great plains. (google.tn)
  • In place of abysmal swamps and rude, miasmic wilderness, romantics now perceived sylvan glades, the grandeur of primeval forests, and the sublimity of infinite plains and towering mountains. (nybooks.com)
  • Indians hunted buffalo on the plains and deer in the eastern forests. (moderjord.org)
  • When Indians alone cared for the American earth, this continent was clothed in a green robe of forests, unbroken grasslands, and useful desert plants, filled with an abundance of wildlife. (moderjord.org)
  • Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia Elephants love water, and huge herds are attracted to the forests and plains on the banks of the mighty Zambezi River on the southern border of Zambia. (aluxurytravelblog.com)
  • Mountain slope habitats vary from moist coniferous/mixed forested habitats to dry subalpine/pine forests with alpine meadows higher up. (everipedia.org)
  • The first ecological restorers in the New World were Christian white settlers, who viewed themselves as gardeners of blighted wastelands-even as they pushed Indians west and leveled forests for agriculture and cities. (scseagrant.org)
  • Antarctica is 1 of only 2 of the world's continents that lie entirely within the Southern Hemisphere. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • Montana is full of rich cultures including 12 American Indian tribes and countless settlers from all world regions. (studymontana.org)
  • To keep their claims in the trans-Appalachian area (the area of land that stretched west from the crest of the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River), early settlers fought almost constantly with Indians. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The American settlers had only their own strength and skill with a flintlock rifle or an ax for protection. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Antarctica is the fifth largest of the Earth's seven continents. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • Around 200 million years ago Antarctica was part of the super continent Gondwana. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • Antarctica was the last continent to be discovered. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • Antarctica is divided into unequal eastern and western portions by the Transantarctic Mountain Chain. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • East Antarctica lies between the Transantarctic Mountains and the Indian Ocean. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • West Antarctica has most of its land below sea level a grouping of many ice covered islands known as an 'archipelago', most of the mountains peeks can be seen from above the ice caps and were formed by volcanoes, some of the volcanoes are still active. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • Antarctica consists of many volcanoes like Mount Erebus and Deception Island. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • There have been fossils of plants, dinosaurs mammals, amphibians that scientists believe lived in Antarctica before it became an icy continent. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • Located on the west of North America, The Rocky Mountains are a mountain chain approximately 4,800 km long and 563 km wide running from north to south. (lifehack.org)
  • In those wild regions of the Far West men are pouring in one vast, gold-searching tide of thousands and tens of thousands, into the comparatively unknown territory beyond the Rocky Mountains, for which our Legislature has just manufactured a government. (mirrorservice.org)
  • Some deer have a circumpolar distribution in both North America and Eurasia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The land between the Inupiat village of Kaktovik and the Gwich'in Indians' Arctic Village 140 miles due south also harbors the greatest wildlife diversity of any protected area in the circumpolar North. (nwf.org)
  • These flood waters concentrate the wildlife on the countless islands in the Delta between June and October, and of course the vast water-filled flood plains are great news for the water-loving elephants. (aluxurytravelblog.com)
  • The United States' acquisition of the Louisiana Territory is one of the final acts in a long series of foreign affairs in which the big European powers of France, Britain, and Spain struggled to control a vast portion of the North American Continent, and who had to contend with the new American nation and its aspirations. (kshs.org)
  • All three of these claims pushed many Americans, whether they uttered the words manifest destiny or not, to actively seek the expansion of democracy. (americanyawp.com)
  • For opponents of manifest destiny, the lofty rhetoric of the Young Americans was nothing other than a kind of imperialism that the American Revolution was supposed to have repudiated. (americanyawp.com)
  • The precepts of manifest destiny, grounded in the twin beliefs of virtuous American institutionalism and the uplifting effects of agrarian republicanism, rode the wagon trails westward in advance of the destinarian belief in American greatness - the proverbial city on the hill of the colonial period began its move westward. (americanyawp.com)
  • All three of these claims pushed many Americans, whether they uttered the words 'manifest destiny' or not, to actively seek the expansion of the democracy in both word and action to the great detriment of those, most notably American Indians, already occupying the physical lands in question. (americanyawp.com)
  • just south of the Canadian border - is a hidden gem known for its natural beauty, mountains, rivers, great plains, and friendly people. (studymontana.org)
  • At FortUnion, the post at the junction of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, traders bungled an attempt to inoculate Indian women living there with scabs taken from a victim. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • When the first European explorers coasted the shores, ascended the rivers, and trekked overland, they constantly remarked at the richness and variety of the new land: deep, fertile soil, flourishing woodlands, prairies full of high grass and myriads of flowers, and clear rivers of good water. (moderjord.org)
  • The Indians had been hunting, fishing, and gathering in America not for centuries but for millennia, and there were still as many buffalo on the plains and salmon in the rivers as there could be. (moderjord.org)
  • I intended to proceed to Colonia del Sacramiento, situated on the northern bank of the Plata and opposite to Buenos Ayres, and thence, following up the Uruguay, to the village of Mercedes on the Rio Negro (one of the many rivers of this name in South America), and from this point to return direct to Monte Video. (infidels.org)
  • Invading Europeans justifies their conquests by denying the evidence of American Indian civilisations. (google.tn)
  • This book presents an enthralling look at the depth and diversity of American history - before the Europeans and the deadly epidemics they brought with them decimated whole nations. (google.tn)
  • At the crossroads of ethnohistory, imperial history and U.S. history, Hämäläinen's latest book sheds a new light on the Lakota people, arguing that they established a thriving nomadic empire in the heart of America, despite the growing presence of Europeans. (laviedesidees.fr)
  • Europeans nevertheless saw spiritual opportunities in North America. (scseagrant.org)
  • That started me thinking about the Indians and how they lived and what their lives were like both before and after the "white man" or "pale faces" came to live on the land of all the various tribes that inhabited our continent. (hhhistory.com)
  • The seed gathering tribes lived in the Great Basin area of Colorado, Nevada, and lower Wyoming. (hhhistory.com)
  • The hunter tribes lived on the plains to hunt buffalo. (hhhistory.com)
  • Tribes around the Great Lakes harvested rice, a staple of their diet while the tribes of the Great Northwest were experts at catching all types of fish. (hhhistory.com)
  • Under the treatment of its author, Montezuma becomes a rude Indian sachem, his kingdom a confederation of barbarous Indian tribes like that of the Iroquois, the city of Mexico a cluster of mud huts or wigwams in an everglade, its causeways rude Indian footpaths, its temples and palaces pure fictions of lying Spanish romance, and all previous histories of the Aztecs and their country extravagant inventions with a "Moorish coloring. (free-translator.com)
  • Smallpox had previously swept across the high plains from Mexico in the late 18th century, ravaging the Mandan and other tribes such as the Ojibwa, Pawnee and Arikara, whose population fell by as much as two-thirds. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • He passed through the Great Lakes, mentioning as he goes various Indian tribes and some of the products of the country, stopped some little time at the great town of the Winnebagoes, at Lake Winnebago, in Wisconsin, where he was very civilly received. (heritage-history.com)
  • It's the perfect place to start anew and find yourself again -- in the mountains, on the prairie, near one of our many lakes, or one of our classic western downtowns. (studymontana.org)
  • The Indians roamed the plains, lived in the mountains and cliffs, plowed the ground on the East coast to grow crops, and lived around the Great Lakes. (hhhistory.com)
  • The story begins at the western marches of the Great Lakes, in the prairie-forest ecotone between the Eastern Woodlands and the prairie grasslands. (laviedesidees.fr)
  • There is nothing in our experience we can compare it to," says W. Raymond Wood, an anthropologist who has studied Plains Indian cultures. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Europe's myopic view of America over the centuries might be diagnosed as double vision except that the competing images-those of evil, the others of good-rarely coexisted. (nybooks.com)
  • Four centuries later, in 1776, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams drew on the Great Law to draft the US Declaration of Independence, as did the fathers of the US Constitution in 1787. (fileane.com)
  • The Exotic Fun Pack contains representatives from three continents separated by thousands of miles. (safariltd.com)
  • This is the first formal plea for saving the North American Bison, and it was instrumental in their preservation. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Thus, while the decrease in the number of North American bison had begun when the first people arrived with guns, it had rapidly declined during the 1830s and then at a much faster rate in the two decades since the Civil War. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Although there are other more famous conservationists from this era, for the North American bison, Hornady was the person who should be credited with the survival of the species. (wikisummaries.org)
  • So ultimately, Americans needed to discover what every square mile of their country had to offer and promote the best places for settlement. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Besides this important end, a settlement on that extremity of America would answer many good purposes, and repay every expense the establishment of it might occasion. (heritage-history.com)
  • It opened up the Great Plains and the Midwest to settlement and agricultural production, and was at the center of the events which led to the Civil War because of the desire to extend slavery into the new territories. (kshs.org)
  • There are also several species of deer that are highly specialized and live almost exclusively in mountains, grasslands, swamps, and "wet" savannas, or riparian corridors surrounded by deserts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because Comanche Empire had set the tone for a history of indigenous power, Lakota America comes less as a surprise, yet no less as a necessary sequel, as it focuses on the other half of the great American interior, this time north of the Platte River. (laviedesidees.fr)
  • Drawing on indigenous, colonial and U.S. sources, Lakota America is both an erudite piece of scholarship and a masterful narrative. (laviedesidees.fr)
  • Montana offers the right balance between high-quality education, pursuit of outdoor activities, bustling urban centers, and exploration of American cultures. (studymontana.org)
  • Their cultures were as diverse as those of modern day America. (hhhistory.com)
  • Second, the lands on the North American continent west of the Mississippi River (and later into the Caribbean) were destined for American-led political and agricultural improvement. (americanyawp.com)
  • But as the seat of Empire, from time immemorial, has been gradually progressive toward the west, there is no doubt but that at some future period, mighty kingdoms will emerge from these wildernesses, and stately palaces and solemn temples, with gilded spires reaching the skies, supplant the Indians' huts, whose only decorations are the barbarous trophies of their vanquished enemies. (heritage-history.com)
  • As a result, the voyage of the St. Peters triggered one of the most catastrophic epidemics recorded on the North American continent. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The continent was circumnavigated by Captain James Cook in the 18th century, but he never saw it. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • Before the American Revolution a school of distinguished Enlightenment philosophers at odds with Rousseau developed the thesis that America was a "mistake," its discovery a disaster, its influence a curse to mankind. (nybooks.com)
  • During the American Revolution, the colonies allied with France to help defeat Britain. (kshs.org)
  • The southern parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans combine to form the Antarctic Ocean. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • Of course there were long intervals between these letters and their replies, because they had to cross the North American continent, and then the Atlantic by sailing vessel. (mirrorservice.org)
  • As the British colonies on the eastern seaboard grew ever more crowded in the mid-1700s, colonists began to look westward, beyond the Appalachian Mountains , and imagine the incredible riches the continent had to offer. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The rapid population growth in the American colonies during the 1700s motivated colonists to move west. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In his introduction, Carver has a prophetic word to say about the unhappy relations existing, when he wrote, between Great Britain and America. (heritage-history.com)
  • The U.S. wanted to be neutral and be allowed to trade with France, but Britain would have none of it and seized U.S. ships and forced American sailors to serve in the British Navy. (kshs.org)
  • Ten years ago this month my husband Niklas and I got to take a trip to Yellowstone because I was attending the annual conference of the Ninety-Nines (international women pilots), held in Bozeman, MT. A highlight of the trip was flying over Yellowstone Park for the bird's-eye view! (yellowstonetreasures.com)
  • Absolutely the best guide to Yellowstone available today. (yellowstonetreasures.com)
  • Beginning with the immigrants from Asia, through inventions of agriculture, cities and kingdoms, American First Nations are integral to the history of the United States. (google.tn)
  • A couple of examples from the eighteenth century-late in the history of European images of America-illustrate the process. (nybooks.com)
  • A classic book, Carlyle enunciates here his conception of a Hero, saying that the history of the world is but the biography of great men who play a vital role in shaping the course of events which have momentous effect on our life. (boloji.com)
  • But the muse of history had other plans: young Francis fell under its spell while a sophomore at Harvard, directing his first, precocious efforts toward a study of the French and Indian War. (city-journal.org)
  • or, in other words, the history of the American forest. (city-journal.org)
  • And as recently as 1983, when the Library of America brought out its indispensable two-volume edition , the Washington Post declared it "the greatest history ever written by an American. (city-journal.org)
  • The library of Mount Cassin was saved in 1944 and transported to the Vatican, irony of history because in the year 500 it had been constituted precisely to escape the power of the papacy. (fileane.com)
  • This December marks the fiftieth anniversary of the refuge's creation, celebrating the first time in American history that an entire ecosystem was granted federal protection. (nwf.org)
  • These excursions provided maps of the continent and prompted many to flock westward and settle all worthy territory. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The wilderness of the American West had been rapidly disappearing since the end of the Civil War. (wikisummaries.org)
  • and the push to force the Native Americans to adopt a new way of life, all meant that much of the wilderness was being transformed to meet the needs of people in the East. (wikisummaries.org)
  • To many Americans, nature is synonymous with wilderness," wrote British historian Peter Coates in a 1998 book. (scseagrant.org)
  • Many allied themselves with Native Americans to learn more about the wilderness they roamed. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In the quarter century before the American Civil War, travel accounts alone came to more than two hundred in England, more than fifty in Germany, and fifty-six in Norway, not to mention other countries. (nybooks.com)
  • Balduin Möllhausen, hailed as the "Cooper of Germany," outdid them both with one hundred and fifty books on America. (nybooks.com)
  • The Great Law which Binds: it comprises 117 articles and defines the functions and prerogatives of the fifty chiefs or royaneh who sit on the Council of Nations, as well as the number of royaneh per nation. (fileane.com)
  • the West Indian name, mamey, are much like pumpkins in appearance. (free-translator.com)
  • He swam across three seas at the bottom of the sub-continent to a lonely island , meditated for days on the ways and means to come out of the morass and was directed to the West for possible solutions. (boloji.com)
  • The new religion of American democracy spread on the feet and in the wagons of those who moved west, imbued with the hope that their success would be the nation's success. (americanyawp.com)
  • The new religion of American democracy spread on the feet and in the wagons of those who moved west and sought to reconfigure their social worlds to the new realities of a new landscape, imbued with the hope that their success would be the nation's success. (americanyawp.com)
  • Fur trappers of the Far West accommodated the cultural differences between whites and Indians for the benefit of trade. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The discovery of extensive goldfields in the extreme west of the territories now occupied by the Hudson's Bay Company, is a great fact. (mirrorservice.org)
  • This paper examines the partnership between American Prairie Reserve, a nonprofit organization working to permanently protect the American grassland biome, and High West, a Utah-based distillery interested in preserving the West's natural heritage for the next generation. (thecgo.org)
  • The authors interviewed founders, board members, and employees of both organizations to get a firsthand account of how the partnership between High West and American Prairie Reserve became successful. (thecgo.org)
  • High West partnered with APR in 2012 to create a specialty bourbon with the American Prairie Reserve story on its label. (thecgo.org)
  • High West Meets American Prairie explores how two organizations were able to combine their unique business models to help conserve the Northern Great Plains. (thecgo.org)
  • The American West is known for its wide open spaces and national parks. (thecgo.org)
  • Dozens of Indians died, as did whites who had not been inoculated, and the stench of decaying bodies inside the post was palpable 300 yards away. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Every place the explorers went, they met Indians in hunting parties, farming towns, fishing villages, and further to the south, in cities with multi-storied dwellings and fantastic pyramids. (moderjord.org)
  • First, explorers blazed trails across the continent, and then the U.S. Army sent engineers to explore the boundaries of the country. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This depressing picture was replaced immediately by a new image, formed by the fantasies and hopes of two revolutions, the American and the French, that was in all respects the opposite of the preceding one. (nybooks.com)
  • The word Antarctic comes from the Greek word 'Antarktos' meaning south of the bear or opposite north. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • The majority of large deer species inhabit temperate mixed deciduous forest, mountain mixed coniferous forest, tropical seasonal/dry forest, and savanna habitats around the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • The foothills and river valleys between the mountain ranges provide a mosaic of cropland and deciduous parklands. (everipedia.org)
  • He spent a month with an Oglala Sioux tribe to understand the conditions of Native American life, and a spell living with Passionist monks in Rome provided insight into the mystic heart of Catholicism. (city-journal.org)
  • After eleven different orthopedic specialists failed to relieve her pain, she took the recommendation of a Native American friend and sought help from a Cherokee shaman - a traditional healer - who was able to lessen her suffering. (thesunmagazine.org)
  • This dual path has helped her become a mediator between Native American and Euro-American worldviews. (thesunmagazine.org)
  • Being in touch with nature, she explains, is an essential part of what it means to "walk in beauty," a Native American expression for being in harmony with oneself and all the living things of the earth. (thesunmagazine.org)
  • ¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 John Louis O'Sullivan, a popular editor and columnist, articulated the long-standing American belief in the God-given mission of the United States to lead the world in the peaceful transition to democracy. (americanyawp.com)
  • Bordewich, a roving editor for the Readers' Digest , provides a short take on the influence issue on page 298 of this combination travel narrative and polemic: "Indians are now commonly taught to believe that American democracy is based on the Iroquois Confederation, a curious notion that relies on a handful of rhetorical remarks by Benjamin Franklin. (ratical.org)
  • The highest concentration of large deer species in temperate North America lies in the Canadian Rocky Mountain and Columbia Mountain regions between Alberta and British Columbia where all five North American deer species (white-tailed deer, mule deer, caribou, elk, and moose) can be found. (wikipedia.org)
  • Subsequent lava and ash eruptions raised the Cascade Mountains during the Miocene Epoch, and the mountains began to lift when hundreds of volcanoes erupted during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million - 11,700 years ago). (wa.gov)
  • The same destiny which pushed forward Anglo-Saxon energy and intelligence into the rich plains of Mexico, and which has peopled Australia, is now turning the current of emigration to another of the "waste-places of the earth. (mirrorservice.org)
  • The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, which created the refuge (see "NWF in Action," below), also designated 1.5 million acres of the coastal plain as the "1002 Area" and mandated studies of its natural resources, especially petroleum. (nwf.org)
  • Because they occupy a special place in American imagination, Lakotas are at once incredibly familiar and utterly unknown. (laviedesidees.fr)
  • Beginning in the sixteenth century with his protagonists' first abortive efforts at colonization and ending on the Plains of Abraham 250 years later, Parkman's sprawling narrative elevated the contest for the continent to the level of epic. (city-journal.org)
  • For our international students, Montana is home to several world-class universities and colleges, all of which have a long tradition of educating students from all continents. (studymontana.org)
  • Yet throughout the 18th and 19th century, the Lakotas moved the center of their world across the great American interior. (laviedesidees.fr)
  • His resulting work was the first major effort in North America, and probably the world, to save what had become a highly endangered species. (wikisummaries.org)
  • The reprinting for the general public of what had originally been part of a much longer internal government report, meant that people were made aware that their vision of the past, with millions of buffalo roaming the plains, was not an accurate picture of the world in 1889. (wikisummaries.org)
  • America was now the best of all possible worlds, a new start and a new hope for mankind, all the Old World debris of kings, courts, bishops, and aristocrats cleared away for a golden age of the present. (nybooks.com)
  • Long before the first European ship dropped anchor off the shores of the New World, the western continent was the home of the American Indians. (moderjord.org)
  • Ecological restoration reflects the American spirit-our constant utopian desire to rehabilitate the world. (scseagrant.org)
  • Third, Americans who supported expansion believed that God and the Constitution (the political manifestation of divine perfection) ordained an irrepressible destiny to accomplish redemption and democratization throughout the world. (americanyawp.com)
  • The river runs through the eastern plateau/steppe and then cuts through the Cascade and Coastal Mountain Ranges before entering the Pacific Ocean with much of the Middle Columbia located within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. (wa.gov)
  • Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento - Value of an Estancia - Cattle, how counted - Singular Breed of Oxen - Perforated Pebbles - Shepherd Dogs - Horses broken-in, Gauchos riding - Character of Inhabitants - Rio Plata - Flocks of Butterflies - Aeronaut Spiders - Phosphorescence of the Sea - Port Desire - Guanaco - Port St. Julian - Geology of Patagonia - Fossil gigantic Animal - Types of Organization constant - Change in the Zoology of America - Causes of Extinction. (infidels.org)
  • American Prairie Reserve (APR) is a non-profit organization with the goal of conserving three million acres of grassland in central Montana (an area about the size of Connecticut). (thecgo.org)
  • The Indians have long been maligned as the "bad guys" in many western movies and stories. (hhhistory.com)
  • To write about each individual group would take a great deal more space than we have here, but suffice it to say that they lived here and used the land for its resources long before the White Man stepped foot on the soil of what is now North America. (hhhistory.com)
  • As Pekka Hämäläinen demonstrates, both the imagery and the narrative associated with the Lakotas are distorted simplifications of their long, complex experience of America in a colonial context. (laviedesidees.fr)
  • Ray Allen Billington's book dwells mainly on European images of America in the nineteenth century, but the pattern of image-making was fixed long before. (nybooks.com)
  • a thousand years from now, if there are still Americans, Parkman will be their Homer. (city-journal.org)
  • Six nations of the Iroquois group, decided to gather around an oral law, the Great Law that Lies, to end their incessant conflicts. (fileane.com)
  • Over the years many of the great names-Montaigne, Shakespeare, Goethe-come up in the bibliographies, and writers of prominence were increasingly involved as popular interest in the subject grew. (nybooks.com)
  • And under these grew many good herbs and beautiful flowering plants. (moderjord.org)
  • The art of teaching Iroquois Indians, at the sources of the first constitution. (fileane.com)
  • This piece says that even the most conservative estimates of the Iroquois League's origins (about 1500 A.D.) make it older than the Swiss cantons, and "in a modern study of federations the Iroquois Confederacy is particularly relevant because of its influence on the Founding Fathers of the American constitution. (ratical.org)
  • Fedr argues that education is becoming political turf for "victimologists" to the point that "New York also instructs its students that the U.S. Constitution was heavily influenced by the politics of the Iroquois, a politically correct fantasy for which the state's Indians successfully lobbied. (ratical.org)
  • On the coast of New England the Indians introduced the colonists to corn, squash, beans, various berries, wild turkey, pumpkin, and many nuts and roots not seen in Europe. (hhhistory.com)
  • Cornbread, pumpkin puddings, Johnny-cakes, stuffed squash, green-corn pudding, and succotash became staples of the colonists diet as they adapted the Indian crops to their own tastes. (hhhistory.com)
  • They caught salmon in the northwestern streams and set their boats on the Pacific waves in search of the great whales. (moderjord.org)
  • Refuge visitors may see eagles, gyrfalcons, tundra swans, plovers, sandhill cranes, longspurs and terns among the area's nearly 180 bird species, some full-time residents but mostly visitors from six continents and every U.S. state. (nwf.org)
  • With the natural suspicion that Englishmen of his time felt of the French, he believed that they, while they retained their power in North America, had taken every artful method to keep all other nations, particularly the English, ignorant of everything concerning the interior parts of the country. (heritage-history.com)
  • calling the different nations of the Indians by nicknames they had given them, and not by those really appertaining to them. (heritage-history.com)
  • They thus copied the constructions made in this maritime base of the Gulf of Saint Laurent by the Vikings and Templières fleets which then went to South America and Mexico to trade with the civilization of the Andes and that of Central America. (fileane.com)
  • In South America and Mexico, present civilizations knew how to build stone cities with running water in houses. (fileane.com)
  • Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. (loc.gov)
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Young American: A Lecture Read Before the Mercantile Library Association, Boston, February 7, 1844. (americanyawp.com)
  • Perhaps this explains why the recent bicentenary of Francis Parkman, the great chronicler of the Anglo-French rivalry for North America, largely passed without observance (in striking contrast to the 1923 centenary, which was marked by public exhibitions and a spread in the New York Times ). (city-journal.org)
  • Thus, just as trees had been cleared for fields when people settled east of the Mississippi River, most non-Native Americans believed the buffalo needed to be cleared from the Great Plains in order that the land could be used. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Following the war, the new American nation took the land held by the British between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. (kshs.org)