Surviving English Colonialism
July 25, 2018
Jenny Hale Pulsipher— By the end of the seventeenth century, the Native people of what we now call New England were overwhelmed by a rapidly growing, land-hungry English colonial population… READ MORE
Tag: Native American History
The Fur Trade in the Western Arctic
June 18, 2018
John R. Bockstoce— The fur trade in North America was an important part of the continent’s economic and social evolution. For better and for worse, from the sixteenth to the… READ MORE
Cherokee People in the Eighteenth Century
June 4, 2018
Gregory D. Smithers— During the latter half of the eighteenth century, the Cherokee people experienced an unprecedented series of challenges to their established modes of life. The matrilineal and matrilocal… READ MORE
American Indians and the Future of Coal
November 23, 2015
James Robert Allison III— The American coal industry is on life support. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, less than 7% of the 200 or so proposed new coal-fired… READ MORE
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