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Native American Immigrantion
In the fifteenth century, European settlers began to arrive in North America. The Natives were already located here. Hundreds of thousands of people lived in a wide range of environments from the shore to shore, each community or nation with its own distinct culture. After centuries Europeans started to expand and this resulted in Native American communities being moved, renamed, combined, dispersed, and, in some cases, destroyed. -
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Important figure/groups for Native americans
Native American leaders fought for recognition, respect, and rights for their people's struggle that continues today. Explore the lives and struggles of Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Pocahontas, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Sacagawea, and other Native American leaders. -
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Native Influence on Culture
Native Americans affected virtually every aspect of our lives today, including language, government, literature, recreation, medicine, hygiene, and food. Europeans influenced Cherokee politics and society and threatened their entire belief system. -
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Native Foods
Native American food is corn, squash, and beans. The three staples of Native American food are corn, squash, and beans. Other foods that have been used widely in Native American culture include greens, Deer meat, berries, pumpkin, squash, and wild rice. -
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Native American Religion
Early European explorers describe individual Native American tribes and even small bands as each having their own religious practices. Theology may be monotheistic, polytheistic, henotheistic, animistic, shamanistic, pantheistic or any combination thereof, among others. -
Trail of Tears. April 5, 1838
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of approximately 46,000 Native Americans. The Cherokee removal in 1838 the last forced removal east. They were not allowed time to gather their belongings, and as they left, whites looted their homes. Then began the march known as the Trail of Tears, in which 4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease on their way to the western lands. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
On June 25, 1876, Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River. A force of 1,200 Native Americans turned back the first column on June 17. -
Allotment/Dawes Act. February 8, 1887
The Dawes Act was approved and was supposed to be an act that " Provided for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations,". The treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes. -
Indian Citizenship Act. June 2, 1924
Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law; until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting.
