• Guyana is culturally and historically tied closely to the former British colonies of the Caribbean, although it is located on the South American continent. (scripophily.net)
  • When first contact occurred between Europeans and indigenous peoples in what would become Nevada, hundreds of other Tribes in areas of earlier settlement were already enduring the fourth major shift in U.S. Government policy toward American Indians. (wikipedia.org)
  • That was the goal of independence, with both the seasoned Indian killers of the Revolutionary Army and white settler-rangers/militias using extreme violence against Indigenous noncombatants with the goal of total domination. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In the course of that war, Anglo-American settlers intensified their use of counterinsurgent violence, which the Anglo settler elite dubbed "savage wars," against Indigenous peoples' resistance to their incursions into the territories of the Ottawa, Miami, Kickapoo, and the confederations identified with Pontiac's leadership of the Great Lakes region, spreading to the Illinois and Ohio countries. (monthlyreview.org)
  • By the end of the war, significant numbers of Anglo settlers had taken Indigenous lands beyond the colonies' boundaries, and land speculation was a road to riches for a fortunate few. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The name of the state is in fact drawn from the Kansa people who were the largest group of indigenous inhabitants of the area. (worldatlas.com)
  • These and other slogans punctuate the abandoned prison on its water tower and beyond, graphic artifacts scrawled by Indigenous protesters during the American Indian Movement's 1969 occupation that demanded repatriation of federally-owned land no longer used by the U.S. government to Native people. (freepress.org)
  • I will do my best to use actual Indigenous Nation names such as the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota (Oceti Sakowin) or Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) or the Dine (Navajo) but will also use the words "Indigenous," "Native," "Native American," "American Indian," and "Indian" when appropriate, such as in quotations. (newpol.org)
  • Among Indigenous people, the common name for the continent of North America-and the one I will use accordingly-is Turtle Island. (newpol.org)
  • Another separate study demonstrates that DNA that was present as recent as 500 years ago on the American continent could be completely lost in today's indigenous inhabitants. (debunking-cesletter.com)
  • From the advent of Columbus to the end of the nineteenth century, it is possible that five million indigenous Americans were enslaved. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Though disease spread by these interlopers is often trotted out to explain the spectacular downturn in the fortunes of indigenous Americans, genocide-in virtually every meaning of the term, including volitional acts by invading settlers-is the proximate cause of this towering mountain of cadavers. (monthlyreview.org)
  • With the exception of Mr. Yánes, whose admirable sketch of the relation of the Republics of Latin America to the general subject has been printed elsewhere,' the chief participants in the conference based their remarks on brief notes. (google.com.my)
  • By the mid-18th century, England possessed considerable North American territory, including the American colonies, and was moving with concerted interest into the Northwest Territories. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Over 200,000 visitors partake each year in The New France Festival billed as "showcasing, with humor, the 17th and 18th century period when Québec was a French colony. (multicultural.com)
  • The last thing which the English government and the English manufacturers wished was that the colonies should become independent economically This fact was decisive in determining the attitude of the English government in the 1770s of the 18th century, when the American colonies first tried to attain economic independence of England and finally insisted on political independence as a necessary condition. (england-history.org)
  • During the 18th century the economic importance of the American colonies grew still further, especially as sources of raw materials and agricultural products. (england-history.org)
  • The Anglo-American settlers' violent break from Britain in the late eighteenth century paralleled their search-and-destroy annihilation of Delaware, Cherokee, Muskogee, Seneca, Mohawk, Shawnee, and Miami, during which they slaughtered families without distinction of age or gender, and expanded the boundaries of the thirteen colonies into unceded Native territories. (monthlyreview.org)
  • To the settlers' dismay, soon after the 1763 Treaty of Paris was signed, King George III issued a proclamation prohibiting British settlement west of the Allegheny-Appalachian mountain chain, ordering those who had settled there to relinquish their claims and return to the kingdom's thirteen colonies. (monthlyreview.org)
  • American history does not consist solely of the history of the United States, and the history of the United States does not consist solely of the history of the 'Thirteen Colonies' and of what has proceeded from them. (google.com.my)
  • Just as the history of the 'Thirteen Colonies,' so the history of the Spanish and the French colonies in this country is that of the areas which they respectively occupied, of areas that were later to become parts of the United States. (google.com.my)
  • Today, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and other Native American populations are estimated to be less than 1.2% of the entire population of Kansas. (worldatlas.com)
  • When did the first natives come to America? (sage-advices.com)
  • Not only the French and the Natives but all inhabitants of the era are recognized and celebrated - Italians, Germans, Basque, Africans, West Indians, Spaniards, English, Irish and Scots as visitors immerse themselves in life as it was in the 17th and 18th centuries. (multicultural.com)
  • Mr. Hildreth speaks of the French settlements in America, and then comes to the history of the English colonization here. (google.lt)
  • Their ideas of how to extract wealth from the newly found land in North America determined how successful their colonies and settlements were. (ipl.org)
  • Mr. Sambandan who represents the capital of the Tamil Homeland, Trincomalee, in Parliament, has been privy to the land grabs that took place in the North and East from 1948 onwards by the successive Sri Lankan majority governments through violence and through government inspired irrigation scheme settlements. (colombotelegraph.com)
  • At the expense of their blood, at the hazard of their fortunes, without the least charge to the country from which they removed, by unceasing labour, and an unconquerable spirit, they effected settlements in the distant and unhospitable wilds of America, then filled with numerous and warlike barbarians. (nationalcenter.org)
  • These settlements were abandoned and completely forgotten, disappearing from history until the discovery of America by Columbus (Menzel, 273). (bethelcog.org)
  • Only then did epidemics sweep through the remaining Indian populations, finishing the extermination the Europeans had begun intentionally. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • According to David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and a member of the research team, the new DNA sequence also shows that Native Americans and people from East Asia have more Neanderthal DNA, on average, than Europeans. (sage-advices.com)
  • American frontier , in United States history, the advancing border that marked those lands that had been settled by Europeans. (britannica.com)
  • In the 19th century it was statistically classified as an area having no fewer than two but no more than six European inhabitants per square mile (fewer than one to just over two Europeans per square kilometre). (britannica.com)
  • As the book explains, as a consequence of the war and the ensuing Treaty of Paris (1763), the French "have no longer any settlement on the Continent of the West-Indies, and their possessions are reduced to the West part of the Island of St. Domingo [present-day Haiti], the Island of Guadeloupe with the adjacent isles, the Island of Martinico [Martinique], and the Island of St. Lucia. (loc.gov)
  • Map has title: A new and correct map of the American Islands, now called the West Indies, with the whole coast of the neighbouring continent. (loc.gov)
  • There are few more striking examples of its applicability than the way in which the Scottish society, in increasing flux from the early eighteenth century onwards, provided a class of men of enterprise that played a role, entirely out of proportion to its small numbers, in the promotion of mercantile and industrial concerns not only in Scotland, but also in North America, the West Indies, and the East. (electricscotland.com)
  • This demand was difficult to meet, since Scotland, with no colonies of her own, was precluded from trade with the flourishing English colonies in North America and the West Indies. (electricscotland.com)
  • It was a conflict that pitted two of history's greatest empires, Great Britain and France, against each other for control of the North American continent. (battlefields.org)
  • This document was prepared by the Second Continental Congress to explain to the world why the British colonies had taken up arms against Great Britain. (nationalcenter.org)
  • Our forefathers, inhabitants of the island of Great-Britain, left their native land, to seek on these shores a residence for civil and religious freedom. (nationalcenter.org)
  • and the minister, who so wisely and successfully directed the measures of Great-Britain in the late war, publicly declared, that these colonies enabled her to triumph over her enemies. (nationalcenter.org)
  • Following the decisive British victory at the Plains of Abraham , France surrendered much of its North American territory to Great Britain with the Treaty of Paris . (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • There came two types of men quite unlike in most important particulars - the settlers of the North and the South, the Puritans of New England, the secular and more worldly planter of Virginia and the Carolinas. (google.lt)
  • The Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Prescott asserts that "Peru" was unknown to the Indians, and that the name was given by the Spaniards . (newadvent.org)
  • and from the acts of the soldiers themselves (Prescott, "Conquest of Peru", II, iii) The first news of the existence of the great Empire of the Incas reached the Spaniards in the year 1511, when Vasco Nuñez de Balboa , the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, was engaged in an expedition against some Indian tribes in the interior of Darien. (newadvent.org)
  • JThe settlers who reached the northern colonies in the period of the persecution of the Puritans were mostly of yeomen, small farming, peasant or tradesman origin. (england-history.org)
  • The white settlers seized the best lands and did everything to exterminate the original population of North America. (england-history.org)
  • Roughly two to four million Native Americans also were enslaved and traded by European settlers in the Americas, English and Scots not least. (monthlyreview.org)
  • From the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries nearly 13 million Africans were brutally snatched from their homelands, enslaved, and forced to toil for the greater good of European and Euro-American powers, London not least. (monthlyreview.org)
  • A recent study revealed that before 1581 there were no enslaved Africans brought to what was referred to as the "British Caribbean" and "Mainland North America. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Because Indian land in the Great Basin was one of the last major frontiers to be explored and settled by European-Americans, The People sustained their way-of-life and ethnic identity much longer than most Tribes in other parts of the country. (wikipedia.org)
  • Populations of German descent are mostly inhabitants of the northwestern parts of the state while those of English descent are commonly in the southeast. (worldatlas.com)
  • The main features of this environment are a harsh climate, a vast territory, the relatively recent establishment of a North American civilization that is European in origin, the French fact, Catholicism and a particular pattern of human settlement. (icomos.org)
  • Spain, the first European nation to colonize the New World, pushed northward from Mexico to Pueblo Indian villages and beheld the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River 80 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock . (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Conflict and empire predominated the history of the European continent. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • accordingly, he despatches, quite summarily, the preliminary matter, relating to the discoveries of the continent by the Italian navigators, and briefly sketches a picture of the country and its inhabitants at the period when European colonization first began. (google.lt)
  • Colonial America (1492-1763) European nations came to the Americas to increase their wealth and broaden their influence over world affairs. (sage-advices.com)
  • In the beginning West Africa have traded goods like gold, slaves, sugar, and many more with European colonies. (ipl.org)
  • West Africa and the European colonies had a good run until the 1800's. (ipl.org)
  • In 1884-1885 there was an important event called the Berlin Conference and this conference was lead by the European colonies to get some parts of Africa. (ipl.org)
  • This caused European colonies to take over some parts of Africa. (ipl.org)
  • It marked the end of that phase of European conflict in North America, and created the basis for the modern country of Canada. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Spain also ceded to Britain territories that became the colonies of East Florida and West Florida, comprising the present-day U.S. state of Florida and parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. (loc.gov)
  • North American territories acted as one stage for the unfolding of this historical drama. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Quebec's political history has been marked by the struggle to preserve its French and Catholic roots on a North American continent where the majority of the population is and has been English-speaking. (icomos.org)
  • In the North American English colonies, the pattern was set early as Columbus had set it in the islands of the Bahamas. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Not able to enslave the Indians, and not able to live with them, the English decided to exterminate them. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Since independence, Guyana was the only English speaking country among the countries of South America. (mega-tour.org)
  • The English government regarded the American colonies both as sources of cheap raw materials for the home industry, and as a market for English manufacturing goods. (england-history.org)
  • In 1750 the English Parliament forbade the construction of iron works in America. (england-history.org)
  • These laws enraged not only the American bourgeoisie, but also the American people who were developing a feeling of national identity enhanced by the oppression of the English government. (england-history.org)
  • The moment in which the English or the Anglo-Americans arrive on the scene furnishes an excuse for ignoring the history of all areas not under their control. (google.com.my)
  • significantly, the Irish refer to the United Kingdom as "the mainland" or "across the water," while the English refer to Europe as "the Continent. (openedition.org)
  • English laws , customs and practices were established in the colony. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Since English-speaking immigrants were not coming en masse, Governor James Murray saw that assimilation was impractical. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Besides the priests that Pizarro was required to take in his own vessels, the succeeding ships brought additional numbers of missionaries, who devoted themselves earnestly and disinterestedly to the task of spreading the religion of Christ among the Indians. (newadvent.org)
  • The historian Frederick Jackson Turner noted that, "especially in the United States," the term referred to that "belt of territory sparsely occupied by Indian traders, hunters, miners, ranchmen, backwoodsmen and adventurers of all sorts" which formed "the temporary boundary of an expanding society at the edge of substantially free lands. (britannica.com)
  • When most of the Creeks were forcibly deported to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma,) they called a principal river through their lands, the Red River. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • The local Indians were ruthlessly exploited and driven from their lands. (england-history.org)
  • Marx noted arcane details about the formation of Native American society, but also that "lands [were] owned by the tribes in common, while tenement-houses [were] owned jointly by their occupants. (spaulforrest.com)
  • At its formation, Kansas had one of the largest and most diverse populations of Native American people. (worldatlas.com)
  • In 1880 it was estimated that the number of potentially hostile Indians was fully 60,000. (tufts.edu)
  • As for the French, the colony of New France numbered just over 60,000, and its territorial holdings stretched in a large arc from the Gulf of the Saint Lawrence River, through the Great Lakes, and down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. (battlefields.org)
  • The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Nevertheless, it's true that microbes, not men, killed most of the Americas' Native inhabitants. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Paelo-Indians are believed to be the first humans to populate the Americas, around 10,000 B.C. (sage-advices.com)
  • Researchers "sequenced 92 whole mitochondrial genomes from pre-Columbian South American skeletons dating from 8.6 to 0.5 ka [8600 to 500 B.C.E], allowing a detailed, temporally calibrated reconstruction of the peopling of the Americas in a Bayesian coalescent analysis. (debunking-cesletter.com)
  • Wrested from the American Indians who were its original inhabitants, Quebec became first a French, then a British colony, and finally a part of the Canadian confederation. (icomos.org)
  • The three Dutch colonies of Essequibo, Berbice, and Demerara passed into British hand in 1814. (scripophily.net)
  • The iconic colonial protest slogan "taxation without representation is tyranny" marked the surge of rebellion against British control, but it did not tell the whole story, considering what the tax was for: to pay the cost of housing, feeding, and transporting soldiers to contain and suppress the colonies from expanding further into Indian territory. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Swept up in the struggle were the inhabitants of New France, the British colonists, the Native Americans, and regular troops from France and Britain. (battlefields.org)
  • Many men, both American and British, who would serve in the Revolutionary War found themselves engulfed in the struggle. (battlefields.org)
  • It was a remarkable transformation, and in no field can its workings be observed more clearly, and in such illuminating detail, than in the British North American colonies which were eventually to confederate. (electricscotland.com)
  • In the North industry developed despite the attempts of the British government to limit it. (england-history.org)
  • Because of this community's relatively small size and the American Revolution brewing in the south, the ruling elite was reluctant to impose the British government's official policy of anglicization and suppression of Catholicism that was being enforced in Ireland. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • The Declaration of Independence of 1776 symbolizes the beginning of the "Indian Wars" and "westward movement" that continued across the continent for another century of unrelenting U.S. wars of conquest. (monthlyreview.org)
  • A republic on the west coast of South America, founded in 1821 after the war of independence, having been a Spanish colony. (newadvent.org)
  • This feeling was used by the American bourgeoisie to achieve their economic and political independence. (england-history.org)
  • We shall dwell chiefly on the latter, and call the attention of our readers to some things of considerable importance in the story of America. (google.lt)
  • From the very beginning there were considerable differences between the colonies in the south and in the north of North America. (england-history.org)
  • The book describes the mainland and island possessions of Britain, France, and Spain, with a few pages devoted to the colonies of the Dutch and the Danes. (loc.gov)
  • Three major conflicts-King William's War (1689-1697), Queen Anne's War (1702-1713), and King George's War (1744-1748)-had all begun in Europe and made their way to the colonies. (battlefields.org)
  • The exact date of the earliest Spanish contact with the Ute Indians of Colorado remains in question, but it has been established that the introduction of the horse to the Utes dates from as early as 1640. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Chattahoochee County is bounded on the north by Muskogee County, GA. On the northeast, it adjoins Talbot County, GA. On the south, it is bordered by Stewart County, GA. The county's western boundaries are formed by the Chattahoochee River, the Alabama State Line and Russell County, AL. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • Today, the largest group of people are the East Indians, numbering more than half the population. (scripophily.net)
  • Bounded by Ecuador on the north, Brazil and Bolivia on the east, Chile on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west, its area extends over 679,000 square miles. (newadvent.org)
  • Chattahoochee County is located in the Upper Gulf Coastal Plain, but also contains part of the Sand Hills Region that occurs from east central Alabama northeastward to North Carolina. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • Because the Atlantic Ocean rested to the east of the colonies, there was only one direction to expand-westward. (battlefields.org)
  • This is an on the spot description of how land grabbing takes place in the Tamil Homeland in the North and East of Sri Lanka. (colombotelegraph.com)
  • The Peninsular or Everglade State, the most southern in the American Union and second largest east of the Mississippi, lies between parallels 24° 38' and 31° N. latitude and meridians 79° 48' and 87° 38' W. longitude. (catholic.org)
  • Florida is bounded north by Alabama and Georgia, east by the Atlantic, south by the Straits of Florida and Gulf of Mexico, and west by the Gulf and the Perdido River. (catholic.org)
  • Indian River, properly a salt-water lagoon or sound, forming part of the East Coast Canal. (catholic.org)
  • The United States is dominated by a range of old mountains and plateaus-the Appalachians-that runs north and south on the east side of the North American continent and young ranges of lofty mountains-the Rockies, Cascades, and Sierra Nevada-that run north and south in the western quarter of the continent. (britannica.com)
  • DNA analysis has concluded that Native American Indians do not originate from the Middle East or from Israelites but rather from Asia. (debunking-cesletter.com)
  • Recent research published in the National Geographic by Brian Handwerk declares: "Nearly one-third of Native American genes come from west Eurasian people linked to the Middle East and Europe, rather than entirely from East Asians as previously thought, according to a newly sequenced genome. (debunking-cesletter.com)
  • Georgetown is the capital city, located on the north coast where the Demerara River flows into the Atlantic Ocean. (scripophily.net)
  • Virgin America, hidden away behind the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is now to be married to mankind. (google.lt)
  • Politically, the State is divided into forty-six counties, geographically into the peninsular section, stretching 450 miles north and south, average width 95 miles, and the continental or northern portion, measuring 400 miles from Alabama to the Atlantic, mean width 65 miles. (catholic.org)
  • Along the coast of the Atlantic ocean on the North, stretches a narrow strip (about 60 km) a flat plain where are concentrated most of the population. (mega-tour.org)
  • The mainland is located between Mexico on the south and Canada on the north and between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. (britannica.com)
  • This, combined with the comparatively poor productivity of the land in contrast to the almost tropical fertility of the southern colonies, led to the development of farming on a smaller scale. (england-history.org)
  • South Carolina and Massachusetts in 1850, dates plainly The difference between back to the different origin of the two colonies. (google.lt)
  • Societies or governments, vested with perfect legislatures, were formed under charters from the crown, and an harmonious intercourse was established between the colonies and the kingdom from which they derived their origin. (nationalcenter.org)
  • However, the difference between the secular and the religious colonies still continues in the descendants of the two. (google.lt)
  • Amid the uncertainty in the use of terms, there remains the simple fact that the history of the United States, up to the beginning of the 20th century, was that of a people moving steadily toward the occupation of a vast continent. (britannica.com)
  • The French and Indian War is one of the most significant, yet widely forgotten, events in American history. (battlefields.org)
  • Also, not to be missed at the biggest history fest in North America - old-timey vendor booths, tasting kiosks, major music shows, staged mini performances, stilt-walking acrobats, a fencing workshop, a strongman demonstration, and First Nation's music and dance. (multicultural.com)
  • Beyond the festival, continue your French cultural immersion in food and museum visits to understand the history of the 30 million French speakers across the Continent. (multicultural.com)
  • The results that it embodies, however, encourage the hope that a conference on the history of America in the broad sense may become a permanent feature of the sessions of the American Historical Association. (google.com.my)
  • Effort is rarely made to present the history of the American Continents as an orderly process of development. (google.com.my)
  • The share of the Romance nations in shaping the history of America is ill understood and less appreciated. (google.com.my)
  • In our schools and colleges, in the textbooks and in the courses dealing with 'American' history the work of the Spanish, the Portuguese, and the French is regularly treated as a series of more or less detached episodes possessing a sort of picturesque interest quite unimportant in character. (google.com.my)
  • That the history of the Spanish, the Portuguese, and the French in America possesses an interest and a significance of its own, entirely apart from its relation to the 'Anglo-American' element, is an incontestable fact which the special nature of the present meeting of the American Historical Association affords an excellent opportunity to emphasize. (google.com.my)
  • No field of history is more neglected and none is more fascinating and rewarding to the student than the history of Spanish and Portuguese colonization in America, of the development of the Latin-American Republics, and of the problems that have arisen out of conditions so like and yet so unlike our own. (google.com.my)
  • Gerald Horne is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston and the author of more than three dozen books. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Consequently, claims that they never inhabited this continent are based upon speculation. (debunking-cesletter.com)
  • Convinced that a westward course to California in the latitude of the Hopi villages was impractical because of Hopi hostility and that a route through Ute country north of the Colorado River would be more feasible, Dominguez and Escalante set out in 1776 upon what would become a five-month, 2000 mile journey that would take them through much of present western Colorado, Utah , Arizona , and New Mexico. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • When the persistent commander finally reached the country in 1532, the vast Inca empire is said to have extended over more than one-half of the entire South American continent. (newadvent.org)
  • Is Australia A Country Or A Continent? (worldatlas.com)
  • That may be fair to each country, but it's not fair to American businesses. (avc.com)
  • Farther north, and embracing the counties of Polk, Lake, Orange, Sumter, Marion, and Alachua, is the fertile and picturesque rolling country of the central ridge with a general altitude of 200, and elevations approaching 300 feet above sea-level. (catholic.org)
  • Guyana ( Guyana ) is a relatively small country (214 970 sq km) in the North of the South American continent. (mega-tour.org)
  • The United States is a country of North America . (britannica.com)
  • These restrictions were most serious and they increased the growing antagonism between the American colonies and the mother country. (england-history.org)
  • The program of expansion and the wars against Native American civilization and the agricultural societies of the vast valley of the Ohio River and the Great Lakes region began before the Declaration with the French and Indian War of 1754-63, which was the North American extension of the Seven Years' War between France and Britain in Europe. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The explorers revealed the vast inland area's geography, potential resources, and inhabitants. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • North of the lake, extending through the counties of De Soto, Manatee, Osceola, and Brevard, lie vast tracts of prairie or savanna land with large swamp areas. (catholic.org)
  • This article is adapted from The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean , just out from Monthly Review Press. (monthlyreview.org)
  • It is difficult to comprehend the magnitude of the atrocities intentional, neglectful, or accidental perpetuated on Indian people by the conquering culture, and later by the very government that assumed responsibility for their protection. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Many in the US seem to have no clue just how much of a 'city on a hill' the US is still perceived to be, and how important that American beacon is to millions of people living under autocratic regimes. (spectator.co.uk)
  • The war on the Native Americans, like the wars waged by colonialists around the globe, was waged to eradicate not only a people but a competing ethic. (spaulforrest.com)
  • The Royal Proclamation of 1763 brought these regions and their people into Britain's North American empire. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • The Hopi Indians are the oldest Native American tribe in the World. (sage-advices.com)
  • The French and Indian War is unique, because the fighting began in North America and spread to the rest of the world. (battlefields.org)
  • Those colonists who had greater possibilities of capital investment or of raising loans turned their attention to the manufacture of the articles required for farming, building, etc, or to trade, especially to trade with Europe and later with other parts of the world and the American continent itself. (england-history.org)
  • The Warrau Indians were the first inhabitants of Guyana, followed by the Caribs and Arawaks. (scripophily.net)
  • The fauna of Guyana are presented mainly inhabitants of tropical latitudes. (mega-tour.org)
  • Much trade and commerce occurred among the original inhabitants of the entire continent. (wikipedia.org)
  • At one part of the island he got into a fight with Indians who refused to trade as many bows and arrows as he and his men wanted. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • In the vicinity of the Gunnison River in 1765, the expedition met a band of Ute and other mountain Indians , and a brisk trade was established. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • from time to time, New Mexican records show that the veterans of the Rivera expeditions conducted trade with the northern Indians. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Large Native American trade canoes and sea craft could navigate the entire section of the river in Chattahoochee County. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • New France, whose economy revolved around the fur trade, was not at all a lucrative colony for King Louis XV. (battlefields.org)
  • Columbus] took more Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two remaining ships. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Americans get a day off work on October 10 to celebrate Columbus Day. (sage-advices.com)
  • On September 9, 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the "United States" of America. (sage-advices.com)
  • The expensive and complicated machinery for the management of Indian affairs has been much in the way of the elevation of the race in the scale of civilization, and has produced much evil by creating irritation, jealousy, and universal lack of faith in the white race. (tufts.edu)
  • There was no room for Indians in Jefferson's empire of liberty," writes Jones. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • the eastern half of the continent was "ethnically cleansed" of Native nations by 1850, through forced relocation to "Indian Territory" west of the Mississippi. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Peru's territory lies between 1°29' North and 19°12'30" South latitude, and 61°54'45" and 81°18'39" West longitude. (newadvent.org)
  • The province stretched as far to the north as military expeditions could enforce periodic recognition of Spanish power among the Indians on the plains and in the mountains. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Considered one of the five "Intolerable Acts" by the Thirteen American Colonies, the Quebec Act was one of the direct causes of the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • According to the reports of the Indian Bureau, the Indian population in 1891 was 249,273, nearly all of whom were partially or absolutely under the control of the national government. (tufts.edu)
  • The African American population makes up 5.9% of the entire Kansas population. (worldatlas.com)
  • By the 1750s, the population of Britain's colonies in North America was over 1 million. (battlefields.org)
  • But Parliament soon imposed new taxes and sent troops to the American colonies. (england-history.org)
  • These colonies were an easily available laboratory for early Scottish mercantile experimentation, and the specific character of Scottish enterprise is clearly revealed in its colonial application. (electricscotland.com)
  • On the north-eastern coast the plain stretched for about 80 kilometres inland to the foothills of the mountains which formed a barrier not easily passable for the early colonists. (england-history.org)
  • What was it that both sides wanted to obtain during the French and Indian War? (battlefields.org)
  • Many treaties and agreements were negotiated with France and England, as these countries recognized that the Indians had their own form of government, their own leaders, and their own homelands. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1754 it prohibited the manufacture of textiles in the colonies and decreed that they should be imported from England. (england-history.org)
  • Subsequently, Spanish traders followed trails into distant Ute villages, and Indians made return calls at New Mexican towns such as Taos , bringing buckskin, dried meats, furs, and slaves to barter for horses, knives, and blankets. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Stuck in the middle were the Native Americans, and many of them, like the Iroquois, were effective in commercially pitting Britain and France against each other all the while remaining a "neutral" nation. (battlefields.org)
  • Native Americans, especially the Iroquois, provided the governing model for the union of the American colonies, and also proved vital to Marx and Engel's vision of communism. (spaulforrest.com)
  • The Iroquois Council of the Gens , where Indians came together to be heard as ancient Athenians did, was, Marx noted, a "democratic assembly where every adult male and female member had a voice upon all questions brought before it. (spaulforrest.com)
  • The "engagé," this hired hand, addressed our group: "Who here is from the 13 colonies? (multicultural.com)