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Long before the Indian uprisings on coastal Georgia in the early 1600s, the British had their thoughts on previously Spanish held St. Simons Island. In time, the Spanish

Kit Carson spent years helping stop the "Indian Uprisings" and to create a safe environment for white American settlers, unfortunately at the expense of native Americans.

Jamestown is prospering and growing but the men need women. That problem is soon solved. Then the Indians attack.

President Lincoln not only had to deal with the Civil War, but he also had to deal with a band of Dakota Indians attacking white settlers in Minnesota in 1862.

The people of Jamestown are ready to call it quits when, in 1610, Lord Thomas West De la Warr arrives in Virginia to be governor. John Rolfe marries Pocahontas and introd

Madison declares war in 1812. Government fractions want to invade Canada and Spanish Florida. Harrison wins the Battle of Tippecanoe.

The model for the Carlisle Indian School was Ft. Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. Here Richard Pratt took the opportunity to try his assimilation experiment.

The immediate or short term causes of the American Revolutionary War began with the 1763 Proclamation Line and ended with the punitive Coercive Acts under Lord North.

Afghans of Mongol descent, the Mughals displaced the Sultan rulers of the small kingdom of Delhi (ironically Afghans themselves) in the mid sixteenth century.

In 1763, A British column was attacked by Native Americans determined to preserve their fading culture. The ensuing battle would determine the outcome of a war.

Calamity Jane was a professional Indian Scout, marksman, showman, and personal friend of Wild Bill Hickok who broke through the gender barriers of her time.

With the Indian Removal Act, the U.S. began to relocate thousands of Native American communities in the east. In Florida, they encountered the resistance of Osceola.

Before his death, American legend says that Indian Chief Tecumseh issued a curse upon the American Presidency - that every twenty years a President would die in office.

Riding the wave of victory in the War of 1812, the United States expanded into Spanish controlled Florida and encountered the Seminole Nation.

Gov. James Murray (1721-1794) left the battlefield to take the reigns of the Quebec government in a military regime that transitioned to a civil government.