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The people lived in towns located in scattered autonomous tribal areas related by kinship throughout the southern Appalachia region. Various leaders were periodically appointed (by mutual consent of the towns) to represent the towns or bands to French, British and, later, United States authorities as was needed.
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Puget Sound area populations, once estimated as high as 37,000 people, were reduced to only 9,000 survivors by the time settlers arrived en masse in the mid-19th century. [52] The Spanish missions in California did not have a large effect on the overall population of Native Americans because the small number of missions was concentrated in a ...
Published in History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Early in the 19th century, the Cherokees were led by Principal Chiefs Little Turkey (1788–1801), Black Fox (1801–1811), and Pathkiller (1811–1827).
James Mooney in the late 19th century recorded conversations with elders who recounted an oral tradition of the Cherokee people migrating south from the Great Lakes region in ancient times. [11] They occupied territories where earthwork platform mounds were built by peoples during the earlier Woodland and Mississippian culture periods.
The Mississippian culture flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from 800 to 1500 CE. Agriculture was the primary economic pursuit. The bulk of the tribes lived in towns, some covering hundreds of acres and populated with thousands of people. They were known for building large, complex earthwork mounds.
Sauk chief who led the Sauk ant Fox tribes against the United States off and on during the early 19th century, from the War of 1812 until his eventual defeat following the Black Hawk War. Black Kettle: c. 1803–1868 1850s–1860s Cheyenne: Cheyenne chief who resisted the American settlement of the Kansas and Colorado territories during the 1860s.
Irish journalist and mercenary who fought in Europe, South America and United States during the mid-to late 19th century. George Dawson Flinter: d. 1838 1816–1838 Spain: Irish adventurer and mercenary who left the British Army to become a staff officer in Spanish service and took part in the First Carlist War. John de Havilland: 1826–1886 Spain