• For the next fifty years the British and the French fought several wars for control of the Abenaki homeland, even though it belonged to the Native peoples of the area. (encyclopedia.com)
  • For five years, from 1755 to 1760, the battles raged at Lake George, Crown Point, Fort Ticonderoga, and Quebec as France, Britain and the native peoples of North America fought to decide who would control the crucial highway of rivers and lakes between New York and the city of Montreal. (mountainlake.org)
  • North American Indians fought among one another long before Europeans arrived on the continent. (historynet.com)
  • The Thirty Years' War was a religious war fought over a thirty-year time period from 1618 to 1648, involving most of the major European powers. (reenactor.net)
  • These wars have left millions of people dead across the world in the course of American history, and they are still fought for the same reasons behind the Native American genocide and slavery: namely, to expand the wealth of the US elite. (lankaweb.com)
  • As the United States had expanded westward, navigation of the Mississippi River and access to the port of New Orleans had become critical to American commerce, so this transfer of authority was cause for concern. (monticello.org)
  • This cheery catalog includes many monuments to the violent westward expansionism of the United States in the late 18th and 19th centuries - a precedent that is too often overlooked in discussions of the distant bases built in the 20th century. (lareviewofbooks.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)
  • 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)
  • These northern Europeans were tempted above all by reports of the fabulous gold of an American El Dorado, and of the rich silver resources of the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain (Mexico) and Peru. (nybooks.com)
  • After the French and Indian Wars were over, Europeans turned their eyes to the north American continent. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • In the colonial era, through the Revolutionary War, the foundation of America was oratorically clarified as an act of prudence-that is, God led people, specifically the white Europeans, to America to find a new and superior or incomparable societal order that would be the light unto all realms.2 In fact, many settlers also believed in creating a new nation filled with history and stories. (ipl.org)
  • After the French and Indian Wars were over, Britain and the United States faced off against each other in what came to be the Revolutionary War. (westernhistoryassociation.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)
  • This enabled him to return to tour Africa twice in four years. (utexas.edu)
  • I wonder about the *motivation factor*, I know that there have been many positive contributions made in this nation by Black people, why then hasn't the population of Africa itself risen from the sad state of affairs it is in? (blogspot.com)
  • Having been born in South Africa in 1970 and lived there for 37 years, I feel able to comment here. (blogspot.com)
  • The biggest disservice to Africa has been the aid money that has been poured into the continent. (blogspot.com)
  • Although both classical and African histoplasmosis are common in Africa, the latter is more restricted to Africa, and cases outside the continent usually have a travel history to the continent. (bvsalud.org)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Despite a subtle increase in identifying histoplasmosis cases in Africa, it remains underdiagnosed and neglected in some parts of the continent. (bvsalud.org)
  • The first pandemic was believed to have started in Africa and killed 100 million people over a span of 60 years. (medscape.com)
  • You could actually stand up and fight for themā€¦ and as I would come to see in later years, all Indian people, all Indigenous People, all human beings of good heart. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • As Vine notes in Base Nation , albeit rather briefly, there is a planetary record of indigenous dispossession and suffering in the name of American military occupation, construction, and experimentation, from Alaska and Greenland to Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, and the Philippines. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is the author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Beacon, 2014) and other works on the history of Indigenous peoples. (monthlyreview.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)
  • Jared Taylor of American Renaissance explains that replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day implies that whites should never have come to America. (cairco.org)
  • This year even the City of Columbus Ohio which is named after him said it just couldn't afford a celebration the fashionable thing is to celebrate indigenous peoples day instead. (cairco.org)
  • Call stephanie was the father of the first white child born in North America there's now a movement to junk the entire federal Columbus Day holiday and whoop up indigenous peoples instead. (cairco.org)
  • The cartography of the New World was largely a blank and had to be pieced together from information, much of it opaque or deliberately unreliable, provided by indigenous peoples encountered by Spanish expeditions moving northward into the American interior in pursuit of wild dreams, like finding the fountain of eternal youth or the Seven Cities of CĆ­bola. (nybooks.com)
  • These (Indigenous) insurrections and rebellions went on long after the official wars of Independence ended in the 1800s that rejected the more than 300 years of colonialism. (diverseeducation.com)
  • In fact, there are many examples of pan-indigenous and widespread revolts and resistance throughout the continent. (diverseeducation.com)
  • The great pan-Indigenous Pueblo revolt in what is today the U.S. Southwest in 1680 drove Spaniards away from the region for 12 years. (diverseeducation.com)
  • Preservationists, led by the Ohio History Connection, and indigenous tribes, many with ancestral ties to the state, pushed to recognize the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks for their good condition, distinct style and cultural significance - describing them as "masterpieces of human genius. (knoe.com)
  • Through a comparative analysis, the duality that characterises Pico's verse will be highlighted, and will place him in a tradition of indigenous poets who demonstrate that duality is a defining feature of Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • In academic writing about Native American literature, one will find a variety of nomenclature to describe America's indigenous. (lu.se)
  • Some historians believe that the ancestors of the tribes making up the Abenaki confederacy first arrived in North America about three thousand years ago. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The British tried to establish a colony on Abenaki land in 1607, but, partly because of hostile encounters with the tribes, the settlement lasted less than a year. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The National Congress of American Indians, the Inter-Tribal Council representing tribes living in Northeast Oklahoma and the Seneca Nation of New York State were among tribes that supported the UNESCO designation. (knoe.com)
  • Treaty violation, however, does not nullify their legality, and Native American tribes to this day still live under the laws and restrictions that have controlled their sovereignty for hundreds of years. (lu.se)
  • The publication of a text so carefully constructed with legally non-binding terms and saturated with use of the passive voice was, to many Native Americans, unsurprising in the context of dealings between Native American tribes and the Federal Government. (lu.se)
  • Over the years I came to find it ironic that so crucial a period in our history remained defined by a book that made no attempt at historical balance. (historynet.com)
  • He gave as the stated purpose of his book the presentation of "the conquest of the American West as the victims experienced it," hence the book's subtitle, An Indian History of the American West . (historynet.com)
  • I wanted to write something epic-that is to say, to cover a large swath of American history. (historynet.com)
  • Items related to A Patriot's History of the United States: From. (abebooks.com)
  • A Patriot's History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. (abebooks.com)
  • He has written more than twenty books on banking and financial history, business history, and national defense, including The Entrepreneurial Adventure (2000) and America's Victories (2006), 48 Liberal Lies About American History (2008), Seven Events that Made America America (2010), and, with Dave Dougherty, the two- volume series A Patriot's History of the Modern World (2012-2013). (abebooks.com)
  • He is a professor of history at the University of Washington, Tacoma, is the author of the prizewinning Western Rivermen, 1763-1861 (1990) and Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination (1998), as well as several other books on American history and the American West. (abebooks.com)
  • AFTER WORLD WAR II," David Vine writes in the initial pages of Base Nation , "the United States commanded an unparalleled global military presence, unmatched by any prior people, nation, or empire in history. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • For coverage of the country's government and history, see United States government and United States history . (britannica.com)
  • It's a denial of every shred of American culture tradition and history that can be traced to whites and the sooner we recognize that the better. (cairco.org)
  • February marks the kickoff of Black History Month, a 50-plus-year-old tradition celebrating Black culture. (food52.com)
  • Well, this Black History Month, we have an extra-special reason to celebrate our history with the inauguration of Kamala Harris as the first woman, the first African American, the first Indian-American, and the first graduate of an HBCU to be sworn in as Vice President of the United States of America. (food52.com)
  • I'm honored to participate in the Black History Month Virtual Potluck every year because it is a unique opportunity to connect with Black food creatives from across the diaspora and learn more about the global richness of Black cuisine," Jazzmine Woodward, founder of the blog A Dash of Jazz , told me. (food52.com)
  • In the grand epic of American history, the English were latecomers. (nybooks.com)
  • Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. (tufts.edu)
  • Western history covers a period of more than two thousand years. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • Enrolling in a course about western history in any online university will allow you to explore the impact that European expansion had on the development of North American society. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • A class about early western history can touch on such diverse subjects as cowboy boots and the Cherokee Indians, to the life of Gen. George Armstrong Custer. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • An example of a class on western history online would teach students about the Trail of Tears, because it is one of the most dramatic parts of American history. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • If you want a glimpse into the past of this great nation, read America history. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said the earthworks' inclusion on the heritage list "will make this important part of American history known around the world. (knoe.com)
  • Starr's eight-volume history of the state, collectively known as "Americans and the California Dream," lays out an epic story we are still unfolding today. (commonwealthclub.org)
  • T he sad reality about the United States of America is that in a matter of a few hundreds years it managed to rewrite its own history into a mythological fantasy. (lankaweb.com)
  • In rewriting its own history about Thanksgiving, white America tells a Disney-like fairytale about the English pilgrims and their struggle to survive in a new and harsh environment. (lankaweb.com)
  • wrote Howard Zinn in his masterful A People's History of the United States . (lankaweb.com)
  • Manifest Destiny is a unique, yet mysterious fundamental series of events in American history. (ipl.org)
  • No other country's history contains such an eventful history as the United States. (ipl.org)
  • The trend towards the internationalisation of psychology has led to the history of American psychology being supplemented by other local histories. (bvsalud.org)
  • The history of Native Americans after the arrival of the pilgrims in 1620 is one of disenfranchisement, genocide, and forced migration. (lu.se)
  • In 2009, the United States Federal Government issued an "acknowledgement and apology," acknowledging a "long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies" in its dealings with Native Americans (Congress.gov). (lu.se)
  • New York City served as the first capital of the United States, until 1790. (britannica.com)
  • They had to know him over a limited number of years in a life that lasted from 1706 to 1790 in three different places: America, England, and France. (franklinpapers.org)
  • New Orleans and Louisiana west of the Mississippi were transferred to Spain in 1762, and French territories east of the Mississippi, including Canada, were ceded to Britain the next year. (monticello.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)
  • 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)
  • In order to keep up with trading demands, America and Britain were often in competition with each other. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • Throughout the war, both Britain and America tried to take control of Canada by force. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • Foreign nations allied with the American colonists and later declared war on Britain, making the conflict international. (reenactor.net)
  • Yes, he was one of the "Founding Fathers," the only one who put his name to all three of the founding documents of the United States: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, and the Constitution under which we still live. (franklinpapers.org)
  • The story is fable-like, taking place in ancient Norway a thousand years before. (sfreader.com)
  • With an emigration rate to the New World of perhaps two thousand a year, Spaniards, who tended to congregate in cities and towns, could hardly hope to occupy such a vast expanse of land, even though their numbers were growing. (nybooks.com)
  • Born in Delhi, India, Sunil graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, before moving to the United States of America to earn a degree from Carnegie Mellon University. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sunil Wadhwani was born in Delhi, India, and is the brother of Indian-born American billionaire, Romesh Wadhwani. (wikipedia.org)
  • WISH is currently present in several states in India including Assam, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi. (wikipedia.org)
  • WIAI, led by a team of more than 200 AI / ML experts, has developed over 30 AI solutions being scaled across various states in India. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the IT waterfront, Indian outsourcers can save their American clients up to 45 percent of the project cost, according to Dilip Dongre, global business development manager for Mastek Ltd., a publicly traded global IT outsourcing company located in Mumbai, India. (outsourcing-center.com)
  • An incisive portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life, in a debut novel that spans three decades, two continents, and two generations. (abebooks.com)
  • The Namesake journeys with the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in India through their fraught transformation into Americans. (abebooks.com)
  • Department of Commerce, while inaugurating the Brand USA pavilion at SATTE, one of India's major travel and tourism shows, in January this year said that visitors from India spent $ 9.8 billion in travel services in the United States in 2014, which represent nearly two-thirds of all service exports to India. (littleindia.com)
  • The state hosted 63,000 tourists from India in 2014 with the volume said to be growing at the rate of 33 per cent annually. (littleindia.com)
  • Rajan Sharma (seen here with his wife Aarti): "Vegas offers an experience like no other place and is totally different from India in many ways, hence it greatly intrigues Indians. (littleindia.com)
  • Earlier this year, Mark Hutchison, Lt Governor of Nevada, led a four-day mission to New Delhi that included the official opening of Nevada's first tourism office in India. (littleindia.com)
  • Curiously, the state opened the India office after closing one it had established in China in 2004. (littleindia.com)
  • State officials highlighted that US, is the most desirable destination for Indians, with Las Vegas coming in third behind New York and San Francisco as the preferred destination, drawing 6.5 percent of the India market. (littleindia.com)
  • In "Interpreter of Maladies," Mr. Kapasi is leading an Indian American family around India. (postcolonialweb.org)
  • How does the Das family, all born in America, fetishize and imagine India? (postcolonialweb.org)
  • In "Mrs. Sen's", a woman moves with her husband out of India to the United States and is put in charge of taking care of an eleven-year old American boy. (postcolonialweb.org)
  • Mrs. Sen tries very hard to become accustomed to the ways and customs of the United States but she can not escape from the fact that, in her words, "Everything is [in India]" (113). (postcolonialweb.org)
  • He served as ambassador to Zambia, Egypt, the Philippines, and India during his extensive career in the State Department. (ihouse-nyc.org)
  • America when Christopher Columbus mistakenly believed he had landed ashore in India. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • The rivalry between the French and British for this vast continent had been simmering for a century when war finally erupted in western Pennsylvania, then spread to Europe and the rest of the world, in a global contest called the Seven Years War. (mountainlake.org)
  • In the late 1950s, however, to implement their inhuman policy, the United States government cut off the reservations' already meager supply of food and commodities-the pitiful little "payment" they had promised the Indians in their treaties to recompense Indians for all the vast and holy continent they'd stolen. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • But in trying to correct the vast record of injustice done the American Indians, he went too far in the other direction. (historynet.com)
  • The mainland is located between Mexico on the south and Canada on the north and between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. (britannica.com)
  • Northern European corsairs, with or without the permission of their rulers, responded with growing boldness, attacking Spanish shipping on the high seas, plundering coastal settlements, and tentatively setting up bases on Caribbean islands or the American mainland from which to conduct their depredations. (nybooks.com)
  • Ambassador Frank G. Wisner's diplomatic career spans four decades and eight American presidents. (ihouse-nyc.org)
  • Decades earlier, however, Diego Garcia was targeted by the United States Navy in a push to acquire strategic possessions amid the tumult of Cold War decolonization. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Often, the Iroquois League's ideas were welded to the Classical imagery that was so evident in the first decades of the American Federal period. (ratical.org)
  • After a short political apprenticeship as a conspiracy advocate , Donald Trump took office in 2017 as an ardent America First nationalist determined to disrupt or even dismantle an American-built-and-dominated international order he disdained for supposedly constraining his country's strength. (tomdispatch.com)
  • The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. (tufts.edu)
  • Three hundred and fifty years later, the Native American population north of Mexico would be reduced to fewer than a million. (lankaweb.com)
  • While the Native Americans were away from their New England territory, white settlers took over the land. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The Abenaki who remained in their homelands in the United States also tried to live quietly and avoid trouble with European settlers, but they were not always able to do so. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Unfortunately for Native Americans, the European settlers' gratitude was short-lived. (lankaweb.com)
  • Amy Greenberg's book, Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion, provides documented evidence that settlers believed they were destined for expansion throughout the continent. (ipl.org)
  • In other words, many religious settlers believed that it was a call from God for the United States to expand west. (ipl.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)
  • 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 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)
  • Ask native peoples anywhere on this continent if they consider themselves/ourselves conquered and subdued, and one may be surprised by the answer. (diverseeducation.com)
  • In effect, what is being said here is that the state of insurrection(s) by native peoples on this continent has never been quelled. (diverseeducation.com)
  • The pilgrims found help from the friendly and extremely generous Native-American tribe, the Wampanoag Indians, in 1621. (lankaweb.com)
  • This event marked the start of a Native-American genocide that would take slightly more than 200 years to complete, and of course to achieve its ultimate goal, which was to take the land from Native Americans and systematically plunder their resources. (lankaweb.com)
  • The genocide begun in 1637 marks the beginning of the conquest of the entire continent until most Native Americans were exterminated, a few were assimilated into white society, and the rest were put in reservations to dwindle and die. (lankaweb.com)
  • W hen Christopher Columbus discovered" the Americas in 1492, on his quest for gold and silver, the Native population, which he erroneously called Indians, numbered an estimated 15 million who lived north of current day Mexico. (lankaweb.com)
  • Columbus and his successors' proto-capitalist propensity for greed was foreign to Native Americans. (lankaweb.com)
  • This state of mind powered western settlement, Native American evacuation and war with Mexico. (ipl.org)
  • PURPOSE: Studies have highlighted geographic variation in cancer incidence rates among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations. (cdc.gov)
  • Through the use of several analytic methods and postcolonial theories, this thesis will analyse representations of language, place, and identity, and argue that they are constructed in the border between Native American and American consciousness. (lu.se)
  • Firstly, Tommy Pico's Nature Poem will be read alongside a selection of Native American poets. (lu.se)
  • Long Soldier's work demonstrates the complicated relationship between Native American poets and the English language, utilising linguistic and poetic methods to disrupt the hierarchical power of English in public discourse. (lu.se)
  • The variety of terms and lack of consensus in Native American literary studies does highlight the reality that this nomenclature is a postcolonial issue. (lu.se)
  • However, the diversity of Native American poets is considered in the literature. (lu.se)
  • As the poet Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe) wrote, "there is no such thing as Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • For continuity, in this thesis the term Native American will be used. (lu.se)
  • This inscription on the World Heritage List highlights the important work of American archaeologists, who discovered here remains dating back 2000 years, constituting one of the largest earthwork constructions in the world. (knoe.com)
  • State Librarian of California for 10 years, Starr's inclusive and democratic approach remains a beacon among today's shadows. (commonwealthclub.org)
  • In the book, Amy Greenberg states that the ideology of western expansion began when Puritans, upon arriving in the New World, "They envisioned their experimental settlement as a 'citty upon a hill,' a beacon of light for less blessed people elsewhere that would prove superiority not only of Protestantism over Catholicism but also of strict Puritans over less rigorous practices of Protestanism. (ipl.org)
  • The first of the Indians' 20 Points demanded the restoration of their constitutional treaty-making powers, removed by the provision in the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act, and the next seven concerned recognition of the sovereignty of Indian nations and the revalidation of treaties, including the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • The resolution was published in the 2010 Defense Appropriations Act, receiving very little acknowledgement in the American press. (lu.se)
  • A network of ancient American Indian ceremonial and burial mounds in Ohio described as "part cathedral, part cemetery and part astronomical observatory" was added Tuesday Sept. 19, 2023 to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites. (knoe.com)
  • It has to be believed, otherwise, "western society," including the United States, sits atop Indian Country and it becomes a civilizing story as opposed to one of genocide, land theft and slavery. (diverseeducation.com)
  • The Das family intrigues Mr. Kapasi as "The family looked Indian but dressed as foreigners did. (postcolonialweb.org)
  • Now that the continent is subdued," the California-based Overland Monthly announced in 1898, "we are looking for fresh worlds to conquer. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Eligible books must be written while the author is a resident in California, and must be published during the year under consideration. (commonwealthclub.org)
  • The British and their colonial militias had the advantage of numbers, while the French had a more important edge: the support of the Indian nations in the region, including the powerful Abenakis. (mountainlake.org)
  • Leonard Peltier (of the Anishinabe, Dakota, and Lakota Nations) traces the roots of his political activism to the rank racism and brutal poverty he experienced every day as an Indian child growing up on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Fort Totten Sioux reservations in North Dakota. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his antic name. (abebooks.com)
  • By the 2000s, the company had expanded to 34 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia. (wikipedia.org)
  • By Vine's estimate (and his calculations are as careful as anyone's, outside and possibly inside the Pentagon) the United States maintains about 800 military facilities in over 70 countries, employing or housing half a million Americans. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Having subsidiaries in various countries, following the rules and practices of the land gives the Indian firm added credibility, Dongre observes. (outsourcing-center.com)
  • China and the United States are the two large countries in the world that they both have cultures which are good recognized through away the world. (bartleby.com)
  • There are many differences between China and the United States , however, there are many causal factors that form the culture of these two countries. (bartleby.com)
  • According to the office's projections, Indian tourism will top 1.4 million by 2020, a compounded annual growth rate of 6.6 percent, which is second highest after only China among top 20 source countries. (littleindia.com)
  • Episodes of widespread famine and disease devastated the population of the German states and, to a lesser extent, the Low Countries and Italy, while bankrupting many of the powers involved. (reenactor.net)
  • European countries, the United States, Australia, Japan) ( 2 ) ate the epidemiology of imported malaria in children in in- dustrialized countries, identify trends and risk groups, and Author affi liations: University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (K. rank destinations according to malaria risk for children. (cdc.gov)
  • Guideline development involved a working group of 26 pediatric gastroenterologists, adult gastroenterologists, allergists/immunologists, and pathologists from 16 countries across five continents. (medscape.com)
  • These solutions include smart differential diagnosis enabling over 5 million AI-powered consultations, a system that helps predict high risk pregnancies and suggest interventions affecting 30+ million women around the world each year, a suite of TB solutions impacting over 2.6 million people, and an AI-powered tool for agricultural pest management being used by 33,000 farmers across 6 states to protect crops. (wikipedia.org)
  • For thousands of years the Abenaki people lived tranquil lives, hunting and fishing in the forests, ocean, lakes, and rivers of present-day Maine. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In 1604 French explorer Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), visited many Abenaki villages while on a mission to trade furs and establish a French fort on the St. Croix River (in territory that is now part of the state of Maine). (encyclopedia.com)
  • The British government sets aside land near St. Francis, Quebec, to accommodate the flood of Abenaki moving there from the United States . (encyclopedia.com)
  • The Vermont Abenaki are recognized by the state. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Now, Indian people were offered money to get off their land and move to cities like Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Chicago-where they were faced with joblessness, poverty, and hopeless despair on the mean streets of America's inner-city slums. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • But by July of 1810, Clinton began to witness a thriving Indian economy with people drying fish, making wampum and raising children. (ratical.org)
  • Indian programmers believe people skills are important if the company is to create a high profile in the global marketplace. (outsourcing-center.com)
  • This article focuses on the geography, people, and culture of the United States. (britannica.com)
  • In the story of Spain's colonization of America there was always an imbalance between space and people. (nybooks.com)
  • Here, I am not agreeing or disagreeing, but actually positing something even more radical: that people of Mexican descent (including Chicanos/as) that live in this country, live in a permanent state of dehumanization and thus also part of a permanent state of insurrection that has been ongoing since the days of Columbus, Cortez and Pizarro and other "conquistadors," one that never ended, and technically, can never end. (diverseeducation.com)
  • Constructed by American Indians between 2,000 and 1,600 years ago along central tributaries of the Ohio River, the earthworks were host to ceremonies that drew people from across the continent, based on archeological discoveries of raw materials from as far west as the Rocky Mountains. (knoe.com)
  • There were several diffrent way people used the word Manifest Destiny like the way John L. O'sullivan used it was he believed that " majority of Americans at the time believed was their mission from God: to expand to west and bring the United States government to unenlightened people. (ipl.org)
  • The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers, provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. (cdc.gov)
  • How do you perceive the Indians who allied with whites? (historynet.com)
  • The Shoshones were led by Chief Washakie, who lived nearly 100 years and calculated that the tribe's best hope for survival-and to some degree prosperity-lay in accommodation with the whites. (historynet.com)
  • In the US, the 5-year relative survival has been slightly higher for women, whites and younger patients than for their counterparts, and differences in age and stage at diagnosis may contribute to this pattern. (cdc.gov)
  • A wide range of cultures is represented as well, with stories that incorporate elements from American Indian, Aboriginal, Oriental, and Caribbean myths and legends. (sfreader.com)
  • But Napoleon, who took power in 1799, aimed to restore France's presence on the continent. (monticello.org)
  • France's colonial presence north of the Caribbean was reduced to the tiny islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. (reenactor.net)
  • Just three months after rejoining UNESCO, the United States has its twenty-fifth site inscribed on the World Heritage List, which illustrates the richness and diversity of the country's cultural and natural heritage," she said. (knoe.com)
  • The failed colony of 1587 on Roanoke Island, off the North Carolina coast, was followed by the founding of two initially precarious settlements, Jamestown in 1607 and Plymouth Colony, far to the north, in 1620. (nybooks.com)
  • A celebrity in his own time, Rogers was considered a hero by the colonials, an upstart by the British, and the "White Devil" his Indian enemies. (mountainlake.org)
  • Leonard was about 14 years old at the time. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • When time comes, we will stab America in the back as we did on 9/11 and 7/7, the Islamic way. (citizenwarrior.com)
  • The war may have lasted for 30 years, but the conflicts that triggered it continued unresolved for a much longer time. (reenactor.net)
  • He became president at a time of great crisis in the United States when extraordinary leadership was needed if the Southern states were to remain in the Union, but he was not a successful leader. (famousamericans.net)
  • Manifest Destiny is a term for the mentality common amid the nineteenth century time of American development that the United States could, as well as was bound to, extend across the nation. (ipl.org)
  • The terms Asupplement@ and/or Asupplementary questions@ refer to any co-sponsored questions that are in the NHIS for a year at a time. (cdc.gov)
  • This reach is both commendable and occasionally inhibiting, but the book remains a distressing and tremendously helpful resource for grappling with the global geography of the American armed forces. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Situated in the semi-arid state of Nevada, Vegas belies its geography to give visitors a taste of extreme indulgence. (littleindia.com)
  • 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)
  • And yet in the years between 1960 and 2018, that's exactly what happened. (tomdispatch.com)
  • There will be more 9/11s in Europe and in America. (citizenwarrior.com)
  • We are also seeing signs of continued strength in our smaller, but rapidly expanding developed world business, where we entered into new relationships in the UK, Continental Europe and the United States. (powershow.com)
  • France had surrendered its North American possessions at the end of the French and Indian War. (monticello.org)
  • After Fort Lawton, Peltier traveled the country where, in Colorado, he joined the American Indian Movement (AIM) . (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • The United States is a country of North America . (britannica.com)
  • The country excluding Hawaii and Alaska is sometimes called the coterminous United States or the Lower 48. (britannica.com)
  • The United States is the fourth largest country in the world. (britannica.com)
  • But the new holiday has different purposes the first of course is to take a poke at yet another dead white man, but the second is to take a poke at all white Americans by telling them the country doesn't belong to them. (cairco.org)
  • After all, in my lifetime, that country journeyed from a third world nation to, as historian Alfred McCoy, author of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power , suggests today, a potential global hegemon. (tomdispatch.com)
  • Enter the name of a place, like "Springfield" or "Athens", to find all locations matching the name, or enter a state ("Illinois") or country ("Canada") to find all places within that state or nation. (tufts.edu)
  • Indian tourists are the seventh largest international spenders in the country. (littleindia.com)
  • METHODS: Using CONCORD-2 data, we estimated 5-year net survival among patients diagnosed 2004-2009 with one of 10 common cancers, and children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), by socioeconomic status (SES) quintile, age (0-14, 15-64, 65 years), and country (Canada or United States). (cdc.gov)
  • The story of Robert Rogers and his Rangers brings to life the passion, the brutality and the violence of the fight for North America. (mountainlake.org)
  • World Heritage designation is an opportunity for the United States to share the whole story of America and the remarkable diversity of our cultural heritage, as well as the beauty of our land," she said in a statement. (knoe.com)
  • The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. (monticello.org)
  • While Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison worked to resolve the issue through diplomatic channels, some factions in the West and the opposition Federalist Party called for war and advocated secession by the western territories in order to seize control of the lower Mississippi and New Orleans. (monticello.org)
  • Cozzens, author and editor of 17 histories of the Civil War and Indian wars, turns his gaze west again to provide balance regarding the broad narrative of the Indian wars. (historynet.com)
  • It is bordered by the cities of Buckeye, Avondale, and Goodyear to the north, Litchfield Park to the east, Tonopah to the south and Gila Bend Mountains to the west. (existingcountries.com)
  • on the west by the State of New Hampshire and the Province of Quebec . (catholic.com)
  • There are no long mountain ranges in Maine, but there is a general elevation which extends from the northeast boundary at Mazs Hill to the sources of the Magalloway River in the west, and constitutes a divide between the streams flowing south, and those flowing north or east. (catholic.com)
  • It describes how Custer and his men, after being forced to retreat to the west by the Indians, made a dangerous trek over an extremely difficult terrain. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • Part wonderland, part hedonistic hideaway, for long the lascivious Shangri-la of the West, it is wooing a large number of Indian visitors. (littleindia.com)
  • He maintained that slavery was morally wrong, but he also believed that the federal government had an obligation to protect it in the Southern states where it already existed. (famousamericans.net)
  • Buchanan tolerated the existence of slavery on the grounds that the Constitution of the United States permitted it. (famousamericans.net)
  • there were hundreds of wars and many hundreds of rebellions, just as there were many hundreds of peoples throughout the continent. (diverseeducation.com)
  • In a similar way, so-called treaties (between governments, as opposed to with the original peoples of this continent) and so-called end of rebellions was simply in the minds of the foreigners. (diverseeducation.com)
  • When the Pilgrims landed on the eastern fringe of modern Massachusetts, they set foot in an "America" that had been claimed for well over a century by the crowns of Spain and Portugal as their own exclusive preserve. (nybooks.com)
  • It is sustained by the endlessly flexible language of national security - flexible in that security discourse can adapt to and inflate a variety of threats, but also in its reach beyond the territorial boundaries of the nation-state. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Vine begins Base Nation , though, by observing that the continental United States is also littered with the ruins of empires, including some sites that have been restored and converted into tourist destinations. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • The following year, they formally declared their independence as a new nation, the United States of America. (reenactor.net)
  • Peanuts were also brought to America by way of the slave trade and are reimagined in the Peanut Curry Braised Ribs by Britney Brown-Chamberlain of Britney Breaks Bread and the Sugar Coated Vanilla Peanuts from Murielle Banackissa. (food52.com)
  • Nearing the end of his term, Buchanan was unable to prevent the secession of seven slave states of the Deep South and the formation of an independent government, the Confederate States of America. (famousamericans.net)
  • By 1870 the non-Indian population of the United States had topped 38 million. (historynet.com)
  • Full Year Fiscal 2015 Results Revenue for the full year of fiscal 2015 increased 27.8 to 699.4 million, compared to 547.3 million in fiscal 2014. (powershow.com)
  • Adjusted profit after tax increased by 32.4 to 54.3 million for fiscal 2015 compared to 41.0 million in the year ago period. (powershow.com)
  • March 31, 2015 compared to 16.8 million in the year ago period. (powershow.com)
  • It estimated that the number of Indian tourists touched almost 1.1 million in 2015, overtaking Italy as the the 11th largest tourist group to the United States. (littleindia.com)
  • And that does not count the tourism by an even larger number of Indian Americans, who top 3 million in the United States. (littleindia.com)
  • The North American and South American species last had a common ancestor more than 65 million years ago. (scienceblog.com)
  • We addressed this question by identifying the specific genetic changes responsible for the repeated evolution of similar color pattern traits in two butterfly lineages that last shared a common ancestor some 65 million years ago," he said. (scienceblog.com)
  • A conflict over navigation of the Mississippi had been resolved in 1795 with a treaty in which Spain recognized the United States' right to use the river and to deposit goods in New Orleans for transfer to oceangoing vessels. (monticello.org)
  • In Chicano Manifesto (1971), Armando Rendon made the radical claim that the United States and Mexico were technically still in a state of war (1846-1848) because the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was violated prior to even its signing, and that therefore, a state of war continues to this day. (diverseeducation.com)
  • As historians have noted, the movement of men and motifs from the "Indian Wars" to overseas conflicts like the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) was direct. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Most respondents were either Black/African American (26), White (25) or MENA (23). (cdc.gov)
  • The new holiday is an insult not just to Columbus but to all white Americans. (cairco.org)
  • His sermons amazed white and black Americans alike. (utexas.edu)
  • The decade-long journey began as a butterfly mapping study and later involved the 30,000 genes that comprise white admiral butterflies and red-spotted purple butterflies in North America. (scienceblog.com)
  • Often overshadowed by the American Revolution, the epic struggle known in the United States as the French and Indian War (1755-1760), determined which great European empire would control North America. (mountainlake.org)
  • [3] Speaking before the New York Historical Society in 1811, De Witt Clinton (a member of the New York Tammany Society) stated that all of the proceedings of the Iroquois "were conducted with great deliberation and were distinguished for order, decorum, and solemnity. (ratical.org)
  • Indian culture places great value on creating long term relationships. (outsourcing-center.com)
  • In the area of drought prediction, successes highlighted in the papers include the development of the North American Multimodel Ensemble (NMME) suite of seasonal model forecasts, an established basis for the importance of La NiƱa in drought events over the southern Great Plains, and an appreciation of the role of internal atmospheric variability related to drought events. (ametsoc.org)
  • The County of Aroostook was reported a few years since as ranking second in the Union in the value of its agricultural products, and there has been a great increase in the quantity and value of its products since then. (catholic.com)
  • The Great Western Trail was the first transcontinental road in the United States. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • In 1845 he became Secretary of State under President James Polk . (famousamericans.net)
  • Additionally, he served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and as Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs. (ihouse-nyc.org)
  • Later, as Director of the Office of Southern African Affairs, Ambassador Wisner worked closely with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to launch negotiations with Zimbabwe and Namibia. (ihouse-nyc.org)
  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appointed Ambassador Wisner as the nation's special representative to the Kosovo Status Talks in 2005, where he played a crucial role in negotiating Kosovo's independence. (ihouse-nyc.org)
  • That the United States Navy was faced with a major crisis at the end of World War II is a proposition which will hardly be denied. (usni.org)
  • In his letter to Livingston, Jefferson wrote, "Spain might have retained [New Orleans] quietly for years. (monticello.org)
  • They were developed jointly by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. (medscape.com)