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  1. 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 ...
  2. 1784
    Russian fur traders massacre Sugpiaq on Kodiak Island
    Russian fur traders, led by Grigorii Shelikhov, overwhelm the Sugpiaq (Yup’ik, Alutiiq) in a bloody massacre ...
  3. 1790s
    Indian nations unite to fight American expansion
    The United Indian Nations of the Old Northwest fight the establishment of military forts and settlements ...
  4. 1794
    Russian missionaries come to Kodiak, Alaska
    The first Russian Orthodox missionaries arrive at Kodiak and begin trying to convert the Sugpiaq (Yup’ ...
  5. 1796
    Czar Paul I charters the Russian-American Company
    The Russian Czar Paul I grants the Russian-American Company a charter with exclusive rights to the fur ...
  6. 1799
    Haudenosaunee prophet calls for peace
    The Seneca prophet Handsome Lake (b. ca. 1733–d. 1815) has his first religious revelation. He preaches ...
  7. 1805
    Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh call for unity among tribes
    With the Shawnee under siege, fragmented, and dispersed, Lalawithika has a spiritual revelation that ...
  8. 1808
    Tecumseh’s leadership grows
    The 1795 Treaty of Greenville pushed Tecumseh’s tribe, the Shawnee, out of their traditional lands in ...
  9. 1810
    Kamehameha I unifies the Hawaiian Islands
    King Kamehameha I, also known as Kamehameha the Great, is the nephew of Kalani‘opu‘u, the former king ...
  10. 1818
    First Alaskan hospital opens; does not treat Native peoples
    Physicians go to work in a new hospital in the Russian Alaskan capital city of Sitka, but the doctors ...
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