• One of the reasons that hammocks became popular in Central and South America was their ability to provide safety from disease transmission, insect stings, or animal bites. (wikipedia.org)
  • The English, French and Spanish raced to slice up the "New World" by transporting over poorly prepared colonists as fast as possible. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • One of the most ambitious, ingenious, and sophisticated works of psychohistory yet to appear (it won the Allan Nevins Award of the Society of American Historians), Patricide is much indebted to Freud's Totem and Taboo but also draws on some of the best recent psychoanalytic literature. (nybooks.com)
  • Widespread landownership, in Kulikoff's opinion, negates the argument, espoused by historians ranging from Louis Hartz in the 1950s to Jon Butler in 2000, that colonial America was born capitalistic. (commonplace.online)
  • Market historians tend to view early American farmers as acquisitive, money-making, land-hungry, entrepreneurial go-getters. (commonplace.online)
  • This brilliant anthology tells the dramatic story of America's war in Vietnam, with essays by ten leading American historians including Max Boot, Douglas Brinkley, Victor Davis Hanson, and Stanley Karnow. (americanheritage.com)
  • Simply put, when talking about the founding of America, early historians, both Native and Euro-American, mostly mean the founding of New England. (lawandhistoryreview.org)
  • But from the early seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth, most Americans lived on small farms. (commonplace.online)
  • 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)
  • This essay examines the representation of seventeenth-century colonial North America in early Native American literature. (lawandhistoryreview.org)
  • A necessary disclaimer concerning the geographic boundaries of our study - when talking about seventeenth- century North American colonies is that we mean mostly the New England colonies. (lawandhistoryreview.org)
  • The dynamics of these interactions were shaped by a variety of factors, including the competition between European powers for control of territory and resources, the desire of Native American groups to gain access to European technology and trade goods, and the complex political and cultural dynamics that shaped relations between different Native American groups. (fiveable.me)
  • Native American tribes often sought out alliances with Europeans as a means of strengthening their own power and position against other Native American groups. (fiveable.me)
  • Some of the most significant diseases that were introduced to Native American populations by European colonizers included smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus. (fiveable.me)
  • These diseases spread rapidly through Native American communities, causing high mortality rates and leading to significant population declines. (fiveable.me)
  • In addition to the direct impacts of these diseases on Native American communities, they also had broader impacts on Native American societies and cultures. (fiveable.me)
  • The loss of large numbers of people to disease had a destabilizing effect on Native American communities, leading to social and political changes that had far-reaching consequences. (fiveable.me)
  • The conflict was sparked by a number of issues, including English expansion into Native American lands and the English refusal to respect Native American sovereignty. (fiveable.me)
  • These tensions eventually erupted into open warfare, and the conflict quickly spread throughout the region, involving a number of different Native American groups and English colonies. (fiveable.me)
  • Written Out of History: Contemporary Native American Narratives of Enslavement ," available with a free login on Academia.edu, draws on oral traditions from contemporary Native nations to explore the history of Indigenous slavery. (learningforjustice.org)
  • Knowledge of Iroquois and other native American societies and their political organizations would appeal to architects of European and American social and political movements much as they had helped shape the ideals of some of the United States' most influential founders. (ratical.org)
  • So why didn't 19 out of 20 Europeans die from Native American diseases? (todayifoundout.com)
  • The Europeans' immune systems simply developed to ward off the worst of some of the nastier diseases that incapacitated entire Native American populations. (todayifoundout.com)
  • It's believed that one Native American disease did slip on to the European ships and sailed onward to Europe doing some major damage in the process. (todayifoundout.com)
  • While you may have heard plenty of creepy legends from all of the various other cultures of the world, chances are you're not too familiar with the ones shared by the Native American peoples throughout history. (grunge.com)
  • The traditional narrative tends to downplay the devastating impact of European colonization on Native American communities, as the arrival of the Pilgrims marked the beginning of a long history of displacement, cultural assimilation, and violence against indigenous peoples. (faithonview.com)
  • Tensions had been building for years due to land disputes, cultural differences, and the encroachment of English settlers on Native American territories. (faithonview.com)
  • Native American tribes formed a coalition under the leadership of Metacom, seeking to resist English expansion and protect their way of life. (faithonview.com)
  • The colonists, with the help of Native American allies who sided with them, eventually gained the upper hand. (faithonview.com)
  • The Native American resistance weakened, and the colonists emerged victorious. (faithonview.com)
  • Native American communities suffered severe losses, with many displaced or decimated by the conflict and its aftermath. (faithonview.com)
  • Way before the terms Native American or Indian were created, the tribes were spread all over the Americas. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • The U.S. government's policies towards Native Americans in the second half of the nineteenth century were determined by the desire to expand westward into territories occupied by these Native American tribes. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • By the 1850s nearly all Native American tribes, roughly 360,000 in number, lived to the west of the Mississippi River. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • These American Indians, some from the Northwestern and Southeastern territories, were confined to Indian Territory situated in contemporary Oklahoma, while the Kiowa and Comanche Native American tribes shared the area of the Southern Plains. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • These Native American groups experienced misfortune as the continuous stream of European immigrants into northeastern American cities delivered a stream of immigrants into the western lands already inhabited by these various groups of Indians. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • Therefore, with the military's protection and the U.S. government's assistance, many settlers started establishing their homesteads in the Great Plains and other parts of the Native American tribe-inhabited West. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • Native American Policy can be defined as the laws and procedures established and adapted in the United States to outline the relationship between Native American tribes and the federal government. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • When the United States initially became an independent country, it adopted the European policies towards these indigenous peoples, but over two centuries the U.S. designed its very own widely varying regulations regarding the changing perspectives and requirements of Native American oversight. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • In 1824, in order to administer the U.S. government's Native American policies, Congress formed a new bureau within the War Department called the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which worked closely with the U.S. Army to enforce their policies. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • Ages before the terms Native American or Indian were considered, the tribes were spread throughout the Americas. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • As a result, with the military's protection and the U.S. government's assistance, many settlers set about building their homesteads in the Great Plains and other areas of the Native American tribe-inhabited West. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • When the United States initially became a sovereign nation, it adopted the European policies towards these local peoples, but over two centuries the U.S. designed its own widely varying regulations regarding the evolving perspectives and necessities of Native American regulation. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • In 1824, in order to administrate the U.S. government's Native American policies, Congress formed a new bureau within the War Department referred to as Bureau of Indian Affairs, which worked directly with the U.S. Army to enforce their policies. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • While we attempt to focus on the perception of conflicts, the larger issue addressed here is the perception of history in general, of how history was seen drastically different by different cultures of North America, how history was re-told and written by Native American authors with their unique position on the intersection of cultural traditions. (lawandhistoryreview.org)
  • The Boston Tea Party triggered the beginning of the American War of Independence. (kvanum.com)
  • Covering the period from the arrival of the first Spanish and English colonists in the 16th century to the end of the independence struggles (1776-1830), Elliott moves in broadly chronological fashion through a series of comparisons: differing patterns of conquest and settlement, distinct approaches to the indigenous peoples and material resources of the New World, contrasting visions of God, crown, state and empire. (newleftreview.org)
  • The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies on the North American continent. (reenactor.net)
  • The following year, they formally declared their independence as a new nation, the United States of America. (reenactor.net)
  • And yet, in a little over a decade, those same colonists would declare their independence and break away from the British Empire. (americanyawp.com)
  • Kings and queens from thousands of miles away were impatient to locate even more resources, and some colonists came for independence and opportunity. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • The English and their Narragansett Indian allies torched Pequot villages and decimated the Pequot population. (fiveable.me)
  • Often, colonists financed or otherwise coerced their Indigenous allies to engage in wars with other Indigenous peoples for the purpose of acquiring people to enslave. (learningforjustice.org)
  • The Indian view was after the Allies spanned Germany in May 1945, fanning World War II in Europe. (igel-motorsport.de)
  • Rapid expansion of the Massachusetts Bay Colony caused tensions to escalate and eventually a conflict erupted, with Pequots on one side and the English and their allies (numerous, probably outnumbering the colonists) on the other. (lawandhistoryreview.org)
  • It took the form of cash payments, barter, and notoriously, treaties that were nearly uniformly neglected after the Indians were pushed from the territory in question. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • And, like most cultures around the world, the Native Americans had some super creepy fables to get children to behave and warn people away from cultural taboos. (grunge.com)
  • Note that modern archaeology finds that there were in North America two distinct cultures: one preceding the other, being replaced a couple of centuries before the time of Christ, exactly as the Book of Mormon says. (jefflindsay.com)
  • Rarely, if ever, has the American church said much about indigenous peoples, especially regarding a history where the church and the US government worked together to harm Native Americans and their cultures. (faithonview.com)
  • Sometimes the profit from these sales was used to purchase enslaved Africans to work in the American colonies. (learningforjustice.org)
  • Pitt was a member of the British cabinet and its informal leader from 1756 to 1761 (with a brief interlude in 1757), during the Seven Years' War (including the French and Indian War in the American colonies ). (wikipedia.org)
  • [1] He was out of power for most of his career and became well known for his attacks on the government, such as those on Walpole 's corruption in the 1730s, Hanoverian subsidies in the 1740s, peace with France in the 1760s , and the uncompromising policy towards the American colonies in the 1770s. (wikipedia.org)
  • His research focuses on native-colonial relations in XVII century British colonies in North America. (lawandhistoryreview.org)
  • The founding of North American colonies became an integral part of the foundational myth of the United States - the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, the founding of Boston ten years later, the whole complex of mythological, legendary, and occasionally even historic images surrounding Thanksgiving, should all be familiar to anyone with even a vague notion of American history. (lawandhistoryreview.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)
  • But from 1641 to 1700, 15,000 Africans were brought to North America and 308,000 to the "British Caribbean. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Groups lower on the ladder were, in order, the Mongolians (Asians), the Ethiopians (Africans), the Americans (Native Americans), and the Malays (Polynesians). (iresearchnet.com)
  • A series of processes-migration, Indian warfare, and farm building-shaped and reshaped the lives of small farmers in early America. (commonplace.online)
  • 2.C European pursuit of enslaved Indigenous labor caused widespread warfare. (learningforjustice.org)
  • In 1800 three-quarters of Americans worked on farms and plantations. (commonplace.online)
  • When they were on the brink of extermination, Portuguese colonists began transporting slaves from sub-Saharan Africa (ca. 2.8 million, between 1500 and 1800) for sugarcane plantations and, later on, for gold mines. (liternet.ro)
  • The war was marked by brutal fighting and widespread destruction, and the English emerged victorious. (fiveable.me)
  • The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution, whereby the colonists overthrew British rule. (reenactor.net)
  • Seen from 1763, nothing would have seemed as improbable as the American Revolution. (americanyawp.com)
  • ¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 The Revolution built institutions and codified the language and ideas that still define Americans' image of themselves. (americanyawp.com)
  • Common colonists joined the fight, unleashing popular forces that shaped the Revolution itself, often in ways not welcomed by elite leaders. (americanyawp.com)
  • ¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 The American Revolution had both long-term origins and short-term causes. (americanyawp.com)
  • Jack P. Greene, The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). (americanyawp.com)
  • It traces the origins of American small farmers to medieval Europe and tracks their growth down to the American Revolution. (commonplace.online)
  • On the eve of the American Revolution, landholding farmers enjoyed remarkable prosperity. (commonplace.online)
  • As late as the American Revolution, Kulikoff states, capitalism had not yet reached America, primarily because freehold farmers worked their own land, largely with the assistance of their families, rather than by employing rural wage laborers. (commonplace.online)
  • The American Heritage History of the American Revolution is the complete chronicle of the Revolutionary War told in full detail. (americanheritage.com)
  • For example, in areas of the globe where there was significant European colonization- eventually most areas of the globe-systems of racist oppression were created by European colonists who enriched themselves substantially at the expense of indigenous peoples' land, resources, and labor. (iresearchnet.com)
  • Forced out of their own lands by European colonists and treated extremely poorly (to put it mildly), Native Americans have still managed to keep their ways of life preserved through folklore passed down through the generations. (grunge.com)
  • Although Deloria is comfortable with the language and metaphors of Gaia theory, he would dispute Lovelock's account of ancient tribal life and argue that Indian tribes in North America lived in harmony with Gaia as recently as first contacts with Western explorers and colonists. (sociostudies.org)
  • The Hohokam helped the fast deine, criteria and analysis plus T and a network of American oceans in Gila and Salt River world medals, which they was with a book of more than 500 tribes of crops moving from 6 to 60 or 70 animals across. (igel-motorsport.de)
  • The Connecticut Valley also witnessed confrontation between English settlers and the local Pequot Indians. (fiveable.me)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Here, from American Heritage, is the dramatic story of the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than 300 years, the effects of which still resonate today. (americanheritage.com)
  • Recognizing and addressing these issues in the Thanksgiving narrative is crucial for a more accurate understanding of the complex and often tragic history that unfolded between European settlers and Native Americans. (faithonview.com)
  • Thus followed years of relative peace as the settlers got themselves established on American soil. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • These territorial gains coincided with the arrival of hordes of European and Asian immigrants who wished to join the surge of American settlers heading west. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • Without firearms and the determined settlers carrying them, this country would be a fraction of its size, never realizing what we called the Manifest Destiny to span the American continent coast to coast. (collectorsweekly.com)
  • And they were used the same way by all people in the American West, by white settlers, Native Americans, and African American Buffalo Soldiers. (collectorsweekly.com)
  • Throughout the eighteenth century, colonists had developed significant emotional ties with both the British monarchy and the British constitution. (americanyawp.com)
  • By the eighteenth century, only Great Britain and France remained as rivals for the heart of the continent. (americanheritage.com)
  • The story spans two continents and more than two centuries. (commonplace.online)
  • The native peoples of North America have suffered a lot over the last several centuries. (grunge.com)
  • ssad ssadblk="Book choice"]For centuries, the American Indian developed its traditions and legacy without disturbance. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • In the beginning, they skirmished with the alarmed Indians of America's eastern seaboard. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • Early feminists and Marxists, among others, used the Iroquois as a counterpoint to what they described as European-bred oppressiveness at a time when mainstream America was preoccupied with westward expansion. (ratical.org)
  • He is also known for his popular appeal, his opposition to corruption in government, his support for the American position in the run-up to the American Revolutionary War , his advocacy of British greatness, expansionism and empire, and his antagonism towards Britain's chief enemies and rivals for colonial power, Spain and France . (wikipedia.org)
  • European trade and expansion into North America would lead to both accomodations and conflict with the Native Americans who lived there. (fiveable.me)
  • Foreign nations allied with the American colonists and later declared war on Britain, making the conflict international. (reenactor.net)
  • The war also had a lasting impact on relations between Native Americans and English colonists, contributing to a long history of mistrust and conflict in the region. (faithonview.com)
  • Furthermore, if the rise of capitalism in America is to be understood, it must encompass the small family farm. (commonplace.online)
  • The American road to capitalism was strewn not so much with landlords, tenants, and wage laborers, but rather with yeoman farmers. (commonplace.online)
  • Two main schools-one emphasizing the market, the other a moral economy-dominate present thinking about early American capitalism. (commonplace.online)
  • France's colonial presence north of the Caribbean was reduced to the tiny islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. (reenactor.net)
  • As its title suggests, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers is a developmental study. (commonplace.online)
  • Allan Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers. (commonplace.online)
  • For more on the colonial enslavement of Indigenous people, see Margaret Ellen Newell's essay " The Changing Nature of Indian Slavery in New England, 1670-1720 ," available through the website of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. (learningforjustice.org)
  • Together, these two texts offer us a meditation not only on the state of South Asian America 100 years after US v. Thind , where race-making continues to shape the lives of the diaspora, but also the settler logics that are entangled with this historic case and the ways in which South Asians have also become complicit in settler colonial processes. (ucpress.edu)
  • The early colonial conflicts, Native-colonial conflicts in particular, occupy a far less prominent place in public image of American history. (lawandhistoryreview.org)
  • However, English expansion and their settlements led Massasoit's son, Metacom , also called King Philip by the English, to forge an Indian alliance to counter this white encroachment upon native lands. (fiveable.me)
  • For example, similarities between Lovelock's theory of an ideal Gaian world and American Indian worldviews are evident in noted American Indian philosopher and religious scholar Vine Deloria's statement that 'Tribal religions are… complexes of attitudes, beliefs, and practices fine-tuned to harmonize with the lands on which the people live' (Deloria 1994: 70). (sociostudies.org)
  • Fortress America' is today symbolized by the iron curtain erected on the us -Mexican border to exclude illegal immigrants. (newleftreview.org)
  • The immigrants to North America sought to recreate what they had lost, and they found more opportunities than they could ever have imagined. (commonplace.online)
  • For 175 years the leaders and general membership of the Mormon Church have believed American Indians and Polynesians are descended from Israelites based on their understanding of the Book of Mormon. (irr.org)
  • The medieval canvas hammock may have been an English invention which was not known on the continent when Columbus made his voyage. (wikipedia.org)
  • Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: "A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep. (wikipedia.org)
  • Columbus first laid eyes on the mangrove-strewn coastline of the Guianas and its warrior-like Carib Indian inhabitants. (motodreamer.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)
  • These settlements were abandoned and completely forgotten, disappearing from history until the discovery of America by Columbus (Menzel, 273). (bethelcog.org)
  • But once unleashed, these popular forces continued to shape the new nation and indeed the rest of American history. (americanyawp.com)
  • By aiming at "a big history of small farmers" (xi), Kulikoff is undoubtedly tackling a vital subject, of critical significance for much of American history. (commonplace.online)
  • K-12 educators can create a school account for free access through the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history. (learningforjustice.org)
  • 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)
  • Here is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's unsurpassed account of the Civil War, one of the most moving chapters in American history. (americanheritage.com)
  • But as with all instances of nostalgia, the stories we received were more about making us feel better about our collective experiences than it was about understanding the truth of early American history. (faithonview.com)
  • The traditional narrative of the first Thanksgiving, celebrated by the Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621, presents a problematic and oversimplified depiction of history. (faithonview.com)
  • The selective retelling of history also omits the subsequent conflicts and atrocities, such as the King Philip's War in 1675, which erupted between Native Americans and English colonists, resulting in widespread death, and suffering for indigenous communities. (faithonview.com)
  • Firearms were such an important part of the history of the American West, so they have always been featured quite prominently within the museum," says Jeffrey Richardson, the curator of the new " Western Frontiers: Stories of Fact and Fiction " exhibition, which opened July 27, 2013. (collectorsweekly.com)
  • 2018. №2), Native Relations in Early British North America and the Emergence of Imperial Ideas (Social Evolution and History. (lawandhistoryreview.org)
  • Many statues were erected by Mexican American and Hispanic organizations to commemorate "Spanish America" and are very controversial. (learningforjustice.org)
  • The natives had established settlements and a lifestyle for thousands of years in North America before European arrival. (fiveable.me)
  • Native beaver furs in the North would be exchanged for European guns, metal tools, glass beads, and textiles. (fiveable.me)
  • Native Americans did not have an immmunity against these new European diseases. (fiveable.me)
  • King Philip's War (1675-1677) would devastate both the New England frontier and Indian-European relations. (fiveable.me)
  • They naturally mixed in with European, Latin American, and indigenous culture. (motodreamer.com)
  • Despite the abundant resources that the new continent had to offer, native foods provided the basis of subsistence only until European cereal crops and livestock could be established. (historymuseum.ca)
  • Educated Europeans and European Americans crystallized the distinction between the superior 'white race' and 'inferior races' and disseminated these views to the general public. (iresearchnet.com)
  • [4] References such as this helped America to develop an identity distinct from the British parliamentary tradition. (ratical.org)
  • Initially, Europeans and Native Americans established friendly relations and exchanged products while sharing the same land. (fiveable.me)
  • Trade was an important part of the exchanges between Europeans and Native Americans. (fiveable.me)
  • Greg H. asks: Diseases from Europe wiped out most of the Indians, so why didn't the Europeans also get wiped out by diseases from America? (todayifoundout.com)
  • Second, Europeans lived in more densely populated areas than Native Americans. (todayifoundout.com)
  • All of these things resulted in Europeans being regularly exposed to many more pathogens than Native Americans were. (todayifoundout.com)
  • But that soon gave way to trade, because the Europeans who landed here learned that their survival was doubtful with no Indian help. (americanindiancoc.org)
  • That only left the Guianas since Spain and Portugal had already claimed almost the entire continent. (motodreamer.com)
  • Some will object that according to the Book of Ether, all the Jaredites were killed but two ( Ether 15 ), but this is the understanding of the author of the Book of Ether, who could not have known everything that happened on the entire continent. (jefflindsay.com)
  • Because they lived on the periphery of the capitalist world, American farmers sold their crops to English capitalists, bought goods made by wage workers, and sought overseas capital. (commonplace.online)
  • Jamestown still yields discoveries, and modern archaeology has reconstructed much about the early days of English settlement, but it has not yet replaced Plymouth in the American imagination as birthplace of the nation. (slaveryandremembrance.org)
  • They know the site of the first permanent settlement in English America also has an enduring image problem and a bit of an inferiority issue. (slaveryandremembrance.org)
  • No one remembers the local Indian chiefs, in part because the leading one changed his name in medias res, the English military commander of the first colony, the largely absentee governor of the second, or the meaning of the letters "CRO" carved on the deserted fort. (slaveryandremembrance.org)
  • The following 150 years were marked by power struggles that saw the sovereignty of the region shift between the colonists. (motodreamer.com)
  • The name refers to the two main enemies of the British: the royal French forces and the various American Indian forces allied with them. (reenactor.net)
  • The British North American colonists had just helped to win a world war and most, like Rush, had never been more proud to be British. (americanyawp.com)
  • An Indian Army officer once told me, 'The Indian Army today is more British than the British Army. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • London had claimed everything, including the Prime Meridian, time itself, and from all corners of the world, goods were shipped to the East Indian Warehouses near Cutler Street. (kvanum.com)
  • Such has been the ingrained Protestant providentialism of Anglo-American thinking that Spain's Atlantic empire has too often been consigned to the shadows of the Black Legend, according to which the greed and depravities of the Old World were visited on the New by Iberian conquistadors and viceroys. (newleftreview.org)
  • In a world of genetically modified crops, Bovine Spongiform Encaphalopathy, and agribusiness, it is hard to imagine a time when small-scale family farming dominated in North America. (commonplace.online)
  • 144). He seems unaware that in much of the non-Western world, particularly in North America, an intimate and harmonious relationship between tribal peoples and Gaia only began to change a few hundred, not one hundred thousand, years ago. (sociostudies.org)
  • All first-person accounts of great events have their own fascination, but the editors of American Heritage have discovered that people writing about World War II seem to tell their own story with particular passion and eloquence. (americanheritage.com)
  • For Forgie, this psychological process shaped "not only the mentality of mid-century leadership but also the structure and style of the long struggle to preserve the Union and hence the origins of the American Civil War. (nybooks.com)
  • Relations between the Puritans and the local Wampanoag Indians in the early 1600's were friendly. (fiveable.me)
  • Indians still symbolized republican virtue and freedom in the early republic as they had at the Boston Tea Party. (ratical.org)
  • The Spanish were in Florida early in the sixteenth century, first hoping to find more gold than Caribbean riverbeds and placer mines yielded and, when that proved elusive, to secure the Florida Strait for its returning treasure fleets from Central America and Havana. (slaveryandremembrance.org)
  • Introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson, the book vividly traces the epic struggle between the Blue and Gray, from the early division between the North and South to the final surrender of Confederate troops. (americanheritage.com)
  • And more than that: the joining of several continents into one territory. (liternet.ro)
  • The Pequot people were a Native group exerting a significant influence over the Connecticut River valley area, the territory that both the colonists and a number of other Native groups were interested in. (lawandhistoryreview.org)
  • To test penicillin's effectiveness in treating syphilis and other STDs, researchers led by Dr. John Charles Cutler from the United States (funded by the Public Health Services, the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau, and the National Institutes of Health) headed to Guatemala in 1946 and found prostitutes who had syphilis, getting them to then give it to unsuspecting Guatemalan soldiers, mental health patients, and prisoners. (todayifoundout.com)
  • American Indian philosophy has only recently emerged as a defined area within the broader discipline of American Indian Studies (see Waters 2004). (sociostudies.org)
  • I recall with fondness how as a child growing up in Arkansas, most every year in elementary school my classmates and I would get dressed up as Pilgrims and Indians and sing about what we all understood to be the story of the first Thanksgiving. (faithonview.com)
  • This doctrine, foundational for both the American church and the nation, led to beliefs like Manifest Destiny-the idea that the United States is God's chosen nation, and this continent is their promised land. (faithonview.com)
  • This is the great American pot story, a dramatic social exploration of a plant that sits at the nexus of political, legal, medical, and scientific discourse. (simonandschuster.com)
  • The short film Thank You, Come Again (2020) was written by, directed by, and stars South Asian American Nirav Bhakta in a story about an undocumented South Asian convenience store clerk. (ucpress.edu)
  • Also included is the report on American Heritage's extensive investigation into the controversial Gulf of Tonkin attack, in which we interviewed the officers and crew of the USS Mattox and reviewed the ship's logs to determine what really happened. (americanheritage.com)
  • At a time when small farms had disappeared from large parts of Europe, they were ubiquitous in America. (commonplace.online)
  • As the Muslim population continues to grow in Europe and America, there are some Evangelical Christians worrying about the demographic trends, and issuing call to action to their membership to increase their birth rates and evangelize. (riazhaq.com)
  • Groups of people and animals moved around a lot in Europe and had interactions particularly through war and trade, resulting in the spread of disease across continents-and, eventually, some level of immunity for the survivors. (todayifoundout.com)
  • The Iroquois Confederacy was one of the largest native nations on the continent. (fiveable.me)
  • Compiled and introduced by American Heritage Editor Edwin Grosvenor, the book covers topics from the first American deaths in Vietnam, the dramatic victory at Ia Drang, the Tet offensive, and, finally, the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. (americanheritage.com)
  • But even if the peoples mentioned in the Book of Mormon were the sole ancestors the Native Americans, just exactly what DNA haplotypes should we expect to find? (jefflindsay.com)
  • 3 The question scientists are asking is: "Who are the ancestors of the American Indians? (irr.org)
  • As of March 2006, 8,223 American Indians have been DNA tested in scientific experiments aimed at discovering where their founding ancestors came from. (irr.org)
  • Most LDS adherents believe, and all the LDS prophets have taught, that Israelites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians. (irr.org)
  • Indian Slavery in the Americas " by Alan Gallay is accessible as a reading assignment for upper-level students or can be used as teacher preparation. (learningforjustice.org)
  • On the other hand, the Iroquois pumpkin, with its green shell marbled with various colours, gained widespread popularity. (historymuseum.ca)
  • A fter ratification of the United States Constitution, the political ideas of the Iroquois and their influence on the American mind persisted for most of the nineteenth century. (ratical.org)
  • As a result of his travels in Iroquois country, Clinton concluded that Native Americans have "all the indications of an incipient civilization. (ratical.org)
  • The French and Indian War (1754-1763) was the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War. (reenactor.net)
  • Spanish colonists noted the use of the hammock by Native Americans, particularly in the West Indies, at the time of the Spanish conquest. (wikipedia.org)
  • Paul Revere, "Landing of the Troops," ca. 1770, via The American Antiquarian Society . (americanyawp.com)
  • Americans have always had a romantic notion about the frontier, how we arrived with our guns and honor, and settled the land in a fair fight. (collectorsweekly.com)
  • The notions of what was wrong, what was right, law and order-all of those things were quite amorphous on the American frontier. (collectorsweekly.com)
  • Of course, aside from wild animals and Native Americans unhappy with the invasion, pioneers had to stay alert for bandits, other white folks who decided to survive on the frontier through armed robbery, "pretty much as soon as white Americans got here," says Bob Boze Bell, the executive editor of " True West " magazine. (collectorsweekly.com)
  • That same immunity protected them from diseases that Native Americans might have given them, or at least made it so the new diseases that they encountered were not as deadly. (todayifoundout.com)
  • One point I make is that since the Book of Mormon allows for and implies the presence of many others in the land when Lehi's small boat load of people landed in the Americas, we need not expect that genes from Lehi and Sariah should dominate the genetic makeup of Native Americans. (jefflindsay.com)
  • Vatapá is also widespread all along the north-eastern coast, as far as Maranhão and Pará, with chicken and shrimp versions, prepared with a sauce thickened with flour. (liternet.ro)