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14 08, 2017

Sitting Bull and Wounded Knee – Sioux history

By |2019-12-29T05:55:19-08:00August 14th, 2017|History, Native American|Comments Off on Sitting Bull and Wounded Knee – Sioux history

Sioux history - Red Elk Woman, a member of the Sioux When did the Sioux first meet Europeans? In the 1500s and 1600s AD, Sioux people - Lakota people - were still [...]

14 08, 2017

The Shoshone fight the United States

By |2018-05-17T16:30:44-07:00August 14th, 2017|History, Native American|Comments Off on The Shoshone fight the United States

Shoshone history: a Shoshone woman and baby The Shoshone get horses After the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 AD, some Shoshone people in Wyoming bought horses. These horse-riders split off from the other Shoshone and [...]

13 08, 2017

The United States expands – American history

By |2018-04-18T09:53:59-07:00August 13th, 2017|History, North America|Comments Off on The United States expands – American history

What Europeans were claiming In 1803, the French emperor Napoleon needed money to rebuild France's army after the French Revolution. So he agreed to sell France's land in North America to the newly [...]

13 08, 2017

The Crow get horses – American history

By |2019-04-29T16:30:04-07:00August 13th, 2017|History, Native American|Comments Off on The Crow get horses – American history

Crow men: later Crow history Crow people get smallpox and measles In the 1600s AD, Crow people were still living in the Dakotas. But they caught smallpox and measles from their neighbors, the Mandan, and many Crow [...]

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