Articles related to "White Settlement"

While other Indian leaders accepted displacement, Black Hawk held his ground and refused to budge...

The Northwest Ordinance was an effort to curtail white settlement on Indian lands and establish a set of rules for future expansion.

Exploration of the life of a man who was both warrior and priest...a man who organized his people to make one last stand against white encroachment.

Between 1796 and 1802, the United States government refined its trade policy.

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.

The Civil War resulted in internal strife among the Five Civilized Tribes and as they sought to rebuild, they were once more challenged by the post-war United States.

Targeting a primary school-aged audience, Paul Stafford has brought together a collection of stories about 200 years of Australian characters and misfits.

Perched under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, The Rocks is an adventurous playground for adults and children to explore, indulge and feel the freedom of open space.

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.

While Black Hawk fought, Keokuk negotiated--the result was a rift between the Sauk and Fox.

The idea of a separate Indian Territory came as a direct result of the French and Indian War.

His alliance in ruins, Tecumseh sided with the British in the War of 1812.

When the old Chiefs negotiated the treaty right for education it was done to guarantee the future for their children and those yet unborn.

Whiteclay, Neb., remains an enabler of Oglala Sioux alcoholism 10 years after the deaths of two Lakota men on its outskirts and a subsequent riot.

People living a traditional life on the Plains took pride in their material culture. One article clothing considered a multifunctional piece is the animal hide robes.

Lots of places in Fort Worth have a great reputation for barbecue, and seeking them out to verify the rumors was an easy task.

The relentless European push across America eradicated hundreds of cultures. Native resistance led to war. In the lower Ohio Valley, in 1773, it led to Dunmore's War.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was intended to be a compromise but instead outraged the North, gave America the Republican Party, "Bleeding Kansas," and led to civil war.

The Wilmot Proviso attempted to ban slavery in newly acquired western territories but helped drive the wedge deeper between North and South.