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AD 1501 Portuguese explorer kidnaps northeastern Native peoples Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real abducts two shiploads of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and other peoples ... |
AD 1637 English settlers burn Pequot village English settlers, working with the Narragansetts and Mohegans, set fire to a fortified Pequot village ... |
AD 1638 Puritans force Quinnipiac onto the first reservation Puritans near what is now known as New Haven, Connecticut, establish the first reservation. They force ... |
AD 1675 Metacomet assassinated; King Philip’s War begins In the Northeast, colonists are aggressively encroaching on Wampanoag land and trying to establish settlements. ... |
1783 The Peace of Paris ignores Native peoples’ rights The Peace of Paris, the set of treaties (Treaty of Paris and the Treaties of Versailles, 1783) that end ... |
1790s Indian nations unite to fight American expansion The United Indian Nations of the Old Northwest fight the establishment of military forts and settlements ... |
1799 Haudenosaunee prophet calls for peace The Seneca prophet Handsome Lake (b. ca. 1733–d. 1815) has his first religious revelation. He preaches ... |
1805 Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh call for unity among tribes With the Shawnee under siege, fragmented, and dispersed, Lalawithika has a spiritual revelation that ... |
1819 Congress pays missionaries to ‘civilize’ American Indians Congress appropriates $10,000 to pay what it calls people of “good moral character” to help the U.S. eliminate ... |
1846 U.S and Britain set 49th Parallel as U.S.–Canada border The U.S. negotiates with Britain to end a Canadian border dispute. Tribes are not consulted as the 49th ... |