NativeWeb Resources: 1700s through 1800s

Name and Description	Nation	Location
Brief Interpretive History of the Rogue River War		US - Northwest
The Rogue River War began in October, 1855, when a mob from the mining town of Jacksonville, in the Rogue River Valley in southwestern Oregon, killed at least twenty-eight Indian people who were camped near the Table Rock Reservation. This account is based on the the research for the book The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1980 by E.A. Schwartz, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1997.
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David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1828)	Tuscarora	US - Northeast
This very early (if not the first) account of Native American history and myth, written and published in English by an Indian, is valuable on that score alone. David Cusick was born around 1780, probably on the Oneida reservation in upstate New York. He served in the War of 1812, during which his village was burned by the British. He was a physician and painter and student of Iroquois oral tradition. He published the first edition of Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations as a 28-page pamphlet at Lewiston, NY, in 1827. He re-issued it the following year with additional text and four of his own engravings, and that edition provides the text and illustrations reprinted here. Cusick is thought to have died around 1840.
Essay on the Choctaw trail of tears	Choctaw	US - Southeast
Essay on the Choctaw trail of tears, where a great nation was forced to move from ancestral homelands by aggressive treaties of the United States government in the early nineteenth century.
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French and Indian War Page - 1755		US - Northeast
This site is dedicated to the French Soldiers who came to New France between 1755 and 1760 to fight in the French and Indian War. This conflict was fought, in the most part, in the Lake George, Lake Champlain region of New York, at Quebec City, and Montreal. While the Canadian Troops and the regiment of La Marine participated in this conflict, I have centered my research on the French Regulars in the regiments of Languedoc, La Reine, Guyenne, Bearn, Royal Roussillon, La Sarre, and Berry. The regiments of Bourgone and Artois are also covered in small details.
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Indian Trade Guns
Indian Trade Gun use by Native American during the Colonial and Fur Trade Era
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Indians and the American Revolution		United States
a condensed version of Indians and the American Revolution by Wilcomb E. Washburn Maintained by the Scholar's Showcase of americanrevolution.org
Journal of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth's Expedition		US - Northeast
First Expedition - 1832 [The book containing the journal has been mutilated. There are traces of the removal of four pages describing the early stages of the expedition. In its place, statements from a letter which Wyeth addressed to J.G. Palfrey in December, 1847 have been added, describing this part of his travels.] On the 10th of March 1832 I left Boston in a vessel with 20 men for Baltimore where I was joined by four more, and on the 27th left to Rail Road for Fredrick Md from thence to Brownsville we marched on foot, and took passage from that place to Liberty Mo. on various steamboats, which place we left for the prairies on the 12th of May with 21 men, three having deserted, and on the 27th of May three more deserted.
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North American Indian Removal Policy	Cherokee	US - Central
Andrew Jackson Addresses Congress.
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Northwest Coast: First person histories		US - Northwest
Accounts / journals / ethnography - July 18, 1774 The Juan Perez' visit to Queen Charlotte Islands and later to Nootka Sound. / July 14, 1775 The Bodega y Quadra expedition, slaughtered in the surf at the hands of the Quinault. / March 30, 1778, The James Cook expedition receives a warm welcome at Nootka sound. / The 1790's, the maritime fur trading years. Ship based fur trade, the Indians had the upper hand. / March 20, 1799, William Sturges spends a night in a Haida village. / May 5th, 1799, The capture and the execution of a Tsimshian Chief. / 1828, From F.P. Wrangle's report, its finally safe to travel among the Tlingit. The 1830's, a struggle to establish a fur trading fort.
More sites on www.hallman.org
Sacajawea: Teen Interpreter for Lewis and Clark	Shoshone	US - Northwest
With links to primary sources at the US national archives, tells the story of Sacajawea and her role as interpreter for Lewis and Clark. Includes links to her gravesite.
The Indian Fur Trade
The Fur Trapper web site is for the collecting and sharing of information on the effects of the fur trade on the American Indians.
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The Indian Horse
Acquisition, Distribution, and Use of the Spanish Colonial Horse by American Indians
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The Raynesford Papers: Notes- The Smoky Hill River & Fremont's Indian Village		US - Central
From prehistoric times, the watershed of this nearly 600 mile long river that the Indians considered extended from its source in Colorado to where it emptied in the Missouri River contained the finest country--nearly 58,000 square miles of it--in all the great plains east of the Rocky Mountains, and it was a main source of supply for all tribes of Plains Indians, all of which made regular trips into this hunting paradise for their annual needs. And though every tribe claimed it as their own, none could make good their claim, and as a consequence many fierce battles were fought within its confines between the various tribes of Indians long before, as well as after, the white man appeared on the scene.
Trail of Tears	Cherokee	US - Southeast
Between 1790 and 1830 the population of Georgia increased six-fold. The western push of the settlers created a problem. Georgians continued to take Native American lands and force them into the frontier.
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UWEC Geog188 Vogeler - Indians and Fur Trading		US - Central
European explorers, traders, and later settlers Europeanized North America--remade it in the image of Europe. This Thomas Hart Benton mural in the Missouri state capitol in Jefferson City, captures the essence of this process: fur trading between the white and Indian populations with approaching settlers in the background.
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