The Birth of America- From Before Columbus to the Revolution
PA RT I Europe and Africa Come to America ...
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chapter 1 The Native Americans W ho were the Native Americans? The Spanish, French, and English explorers were perplexed by that ...
the spread of language indicates has now been confirmed by genetic stud- ies. Together they suggest that ancestors of the Americ ...
Indian languages. Over thousands of years and a large stretch of geography, each society elaborated from the common ancestor its ...
its neighbors, who were not “real” people. As the Spanish, French, and English invaders quickly realized, these differences had ...
IOWA FOX SAUK QUAPAW CIBONEY PAMLICO CHOCTAW OSAGE CHICKASAW CHATOT NATCHEZ CATAWBA MOBILE MICMAC BILOXI ALGONQUIANS OF S. NEW E ...
The priests considered dances, feasts, and even athletic competitions almost as bad as sex: to them all ceremonies except their ...
do, but leaves them to make the most of their free will and to secure as many as they can of the good things that flow from him. ...
turn the potato into a vegetable that was safe to eat. All the Europeans who met the Indians were impressed by their knowledge o ...
planting easier because the soil remained moist and soft. As they taught the Pilgrims, they fertilized land (and got rid of weed ...
One of our gentlemen having a target [a shield] which he trusted in, thinking it would bear out a slight shot, he set it up agai ...
the myriad waterways of the Virginia coast and the Chesapeake, are recorded as bathing every morning, whereas sixteenth- and sev ...
rule. In a pamphlet commissioned by Lord Baltimore for the use of colonists going to Maryland in 1635, the author wrote that Ind ...
“Chimney, as among the true Born Irish,is a little hole in the top of the House” placed directly above the fire pit where the co ...
Narragansett, the sachem; in the Delaware dialect,sakiam;in Micmac,saku- mow;and in Pnobscot, sagamo) was limited in four ways. ...
and their house is open to every Indian.” If a chief violated that custom, he paid heavily, perhaps even with his life. When Pon ...
The fourth difference between European and Indian leaders was that, unlike the European monarchs with whose powers the settlers ...
with plenty of game, it was not for the benefit of a few, but of all. Everything was given in common to the sons of men. Whateve ...
in these savages the fine roots of human nature, which are entirely corrupted in civilized nations....Living in common, without ...
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