Chronology of American Indian History

The French clergy begins ministering to Indians in New France. Jessé Fléché, a secular priest, starts preaching Ca- tholicism to ...

P of what is now Massachusetts and sail to Spain. There Hunt begins to sell his captives, until priests stop him and take over t ...

the disease, die in huge numbers. The total Indian population of the region falls by perhaps as much as 90 percent. Some tribes ...

faced with leading his people through a time of crisis. As the Powhatan population is ravaged by a small- pox epidemic, land-hun ...

P to Europe as a slave seven years before (see entry for 1614). Squanto shows the Pilgrims how to build shelters, how to fish in ...

militia against the tribe on the false pretext that the Indians are plotting an attack on English settle- ments. Eight of the fo ...

P 1631 The Lenni Lenape (Delaware) attack Swanendael. A band of Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians attack the Dutch settlement of S ...

records state, “[W]ithout this remarkable and ter- rible stroke of God upon the natives, [we] would with much more difficulty ha ...

1637 May 25 The English destroy the Pequot’s village at Mystic. In a vicious campaign against the Pequot, whom the English regar ...

P The Pequot massacre has enormous ramifica- tions for Indian-white relations in the colonies. In addition to nearly destroying ...

Indians, most of whom are unwilling to pay it. Their refusal increases the animosity of the New Netherlands colonists toward sur ...

P prisoner. The soldiers instead brutally murder every Indian they can. The Dutch bring 30 prisoners back to New Amsterdam and p ...

addition to taking the blame for various acts of mis- conduct, they cede land, promise to pay a tribute for every Pequot living ...

P prized by many Indian groups, especially the Iro- quois. Traditionally, they have strung the beads into strings held during co ...

northern Florida are subjugated by the Span- ish, who compel them to labor in their missions. Just as a second wave of smallpox ...

P hostages, the Dutch take several Esopus women and children captive and sell them into slavery in the West Indies. 1661 The Spa ...

(see entry for 1602), disbands as New France is placed under a royal governor. At the time of the transition the colony is in di ...

P entry for 1662) allows some of his warriors to pa- rade fully armed through the town of Swansea as a warning to the Massachuse ...

Immediately after the attack, an army led by Benjamin Church marches from Plymouth to the Mount Hope Peninsula, where the Wampan ...

71 but they remain loyal to the British and, more alarming to Metacom, fight alongside the colo- nists. With the help of the Moh ...