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Mar 21, 1400
Paleos arrive in Vermont (9300 BCE)
paleo indians came to america over the siberian ice bridge in the 9000's bce during the late ice age. Nomadic culture hunting mostly caribou bye following huge herds around southeast Canada and New england. -
Mar 19, 1500
Archaic period begins (1700 BCE)
The archaic culture or period is when north american societies were built up of hunters and gatherers. Archaic lifestyles depend on elk, deer, and bison. They also depended on a large variety of plants. Desert archaic societies would dig wells to stay alive. gradually coming away from being nomadic bye constructing shelters -
Woodland Abenaki culture begins
The weather is warmer than during the archaic and paleo periods. The people have to adapt to smaller game, and different plant life. The abenaki also learn trading and government. Mostly non-nomadic. -
''Great dying''
a three year pandemic arives in vermont and through to eastern maine which wipes out 90-95% of the native population. mostly belived to be passed from the europian settlers -
French pay for indian scalps
What most people dont know is that native americans were not the ones that started scalping, but realy it was the settlers that started doing it and they would actuily pay for the scalps. When the natives saw there mutalated bodys they retaliated by doing the same. (even then only doing it with good reason) -
king phillips war
1675 king philip's war, first conflict between settlers and the abenaki nation. colonists were starving in the land so they conquered the narragansett tribes and enslaved them. after this the abenaki started attacking the americans and destroyed over 50% of their towns. resulting in colonial victory. -
King williams war
1688 king williams war this war lasted from 1688 until 1697 although the treaty wasn't signed until 1699.the war started when the French and English began to argue and eventually fight over settlements and trading rights. In this war there was a lot of prisoner exchanges. Also there were multiple treaties unsuccessfully signed.on an unknown date The iroquois raided st.francois village while the warriors were hunting.sept. 1690 maj.benj. church attacks a village on the androscoggin river. als -
queen annes war
300 French and Indian warriors and soldiers destroy Deerfield, Massachusetts. The Deerfield Raid results in the killing of 49 villagers and taking of 112 prisoners who are forced to make the grueling trip in the dead of winter back to Canada with their captors. In 1713 there was a treaty. -
Dummers war
campaign of 1722 (English victory resulting in full retreat of abenaki penobscot village) campaign of 1723 (Abenaki victory resulting in evacuation of the maine frontier) campaign of 1724 (Abenaki victory resulting in a second evacuation of the maine frontier) august 22 1724 norridgewood raid (massacre of abenaki villagers) -
Dummers war continued
3.)Battle at oswego. french victory resulting in the capture of british fort in oswego.
4.)Massacre at Fort William Henry. fort william henry captured by french.
5.)Battle at Fort Louisburg. british capture fort in montreal canada.
6.)The Capture of Quebec. British forces take quebec with overwhelming numbers. -
Britain pays for indian scalps
what most people dont know is that it wasnt the natives that started scalping, but the settlers who began actuily paying gold for native scalps. only then did they start scalping and they still only did it with good reason -
Abenaki join french and indian war
the british decided that after defending the colonies for so long it was time for them to start paying and they made taxes without having colony representatives there which started the tension between the colonies and britain. Also Brittain made a bounty for indian scalps.
a.)Battle at fort necessity. french victory resulting in george washington and his men retreating back to virginia.
2.)Battle of the wilderness. resulting in the death of general Braddock and the death or injury of 900 others. -
Benedict Arnold expedition
Four abenaki villigers served as sctouts and guides for benedict arnold during the expodition to quebec. even though tribal leaders decided to be nuetral in the revalution -
migration of abenaki to canada
in the late 1700s the abenaki people migrated into canada after being denied rights to there land -
brittain gives land to abenaki
brittain gives canadian land to abenaki nation -
abenaki nation state recognition turned down.
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abenaki apply for federal recognition
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abenaki nation wins state recognition in vermont
