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The history of Native Americans in the United States began before the founding of US, tens of thousands of years ago with the settlement of the Americas by the Paleo-Indians. The Eurasian migration to the Americas occurred over millennia via Beringia, a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, as early humans spread southward and eastward ...
Tecumseh's confederacy. Tecumseh's confederacy was a confederation of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region of North America which formed during the early 19th century around the teaching of Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa. [2] The confederation grew over several years and came to include several thousand Native American warriors.
James Lawrence McDonald (c. 1801 — September 1831), was a member of the American Indian tribe called the Choctaw and the first Native leader of his generation to be trained in the American legal system. [1] Thus, he is known as the first Native American lawyer. He was also the first Native activist to make the case for Indian rights directly ...
Cultural assimilation of Native Americans. Tom Torlino entered Carlisle School on October 21, 1882 at the age of 22 and departed on August 28, 1886. A series of efforts were made by the United States to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920. [1][2] George Washington and Henry ...
Tenskwatawa (brother) Tecumseh (/ tɪˈkʌmsə, - si / tih-KUM-sə, -see; c. 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity.
Know Nothing. The Know Nothings were a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s, officially known as the Native American Party[a] before 1855, and afterwards simply the American Party. Members of the movement were required to say "I know nothing" whenever they were asked about its specifics by outsiders, providing the group ...
Native Americans of multiple tribes fought on both sides of the French and Indian War. This war was all about tensions on each side of the border and the conflict that ensued. Some major tribes that fought during this war were the Iroquis and the Cherokee. [1] These Native Americans were not trained in the European form of combat, yet they ...
Thomas Jefferson believed Native American peoples to be a noble race [1] who were "in body and mind equal to the whiteman" [2] and were endowed with an innate moral sense and a marked capacity for reason. Nevertheless, he believed that Native Americans were culturally and technologically inferior. Like many contemporaries, he believed that ...