Chronology of American Indian History

P 1677 May 29 The Powhatan tribes negotiate a peace treaty with Virginia. As Bacon’s Rebellion is quelled (see entry for SPRING ...

P followers by his tyrannical prohibition against all things Spanish, including new crops that the Pueblo have come to rely upon ...

upon them to supply military support in this and three other major wars during the next 74 years. The eight-year King William’s ...

P against Spanish rule 12 years before (see entry for AUGUST 10–12, 1680). Seeing the population weakened by droughts and Navajo ...

P declined by nearly 20 percent. The unwillingness of the English to provide the Iroquois with sup- port and protection disappoi ...

from other villages stage a violent attack on Awa- tovi. When the invasion begins, most of the men of Awatovi are in kivas, unde ...

February An Indian and French force attacks Deerfield, Massachusetts. As part of the continuing fighting in Queen Anne’s War (se ...

Queen, and relate to her those things we thought absolutely necessary, for the good of her, and us, herallies on the other side ...

by the treaty will last for more than 30 years (see entry for MAY 1744). 1715 April 15 The Yamasee attack English settlements. A ...

September 8 The English Board of Trade recommends intermarriage between Indians and whites. In correspondence with the British C ...

1729 November 28 The Natchez attack Fort Rosalie. The Natchez Indians of Louisiana storm Fort Rosa- lie, a French outpost, and k ...

P transverse in one and a half days. The athletes train for nine days, while colonists clear trees and brush to make their path ...

P “Let this Belt of Wampum serve to Chastise You; You ought to be taken by the Hair of the Head and shaked se- verely till you r ...

requests payment for her past assistance to the col- ony. In the past, she had served as an interpreter for the colony’s founder ...

P forts. When they refuse, he recommends that the Virginia militia be sent to remove them (see entry for JULY 4, 1754). 1754 Moo ...

English are “like women: bare and open and with- out fortifications.” The congress does, however, succeed in approving the Alban ...

Inequality among Mankind. Rousseau holds that Indians, largely ignorant of the ways of European civilization, live in a more “pu ...

September 8 The Iroquois and the British force are victorious in the Battle of Lake George. French soldiers, joined by a group o ...

P 1761 The Aleut attack Russians at Umnak. On the Aleutian island of Umnak, the Aleut attack a party of Russian traders who have ...

P by Pontiac (see entry for MAY 9, 1763) and Tecum- seh (see entry for 1808). 1763 Lenni Lenape (Delaware) chief Teedyuscung die ...