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First, remake this timeline for your own use. As you read chapters 4 in An Indigenous Peoples' History, add textual evidence and information about the dates mentioned in the chapters. Don't worry about overly general dates-for example-"from the early 1600s to the late 1700s. . . "  Include specific information about the event/people mentioned in the date and include the impact the event/person had on Indigenous peoples. Be specific with nation names when possible.
See my example for 1620. You may also leave personal thoughts, wonderings, or questions with your entries.  Also feel free to include pictures or original drawings (if you're so inspired) to enhance the visual component of the timeline.

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“The site where the British chose to build Jamestown in 1607 was located on Powhatan territory in what the British call the colony of Virginia. The first Jamestown colonizers were among the many early arrivals who could not have survived without the help of Indigenous peoples.” Pg 69
I think that while Jamestown was monumental for the British, the resulting conflicts for years and years up until today was devastating for the Powhatan nation. The Powhatans helped them survive, gave them food, showed the how to hunt, as well as already clearing the land for optimal use which helped the colonizers survive. The British paid them back by committing genocide threats pillages and manslaughter. After all that help. Simply driven by the greed for land. Greed is one of the top two biggest motivators for humans

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"The Europeans who came ashore on Cape Cod in November of 1620 carried a view of the world that was based on the teachings of Christian religious reformer John Calvin." pg. 50

Calvinists believed that they were destined and justified by their god to take over lands belonging to Indigenous peoples.

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“During the Pequot War (1636-1638), Connecticut and Massachusetts colonial officials began offering bounties for the heads of murdered Indigenous People. This practice of taking and displaying the heads of enemies was a part of European military traditions.” Pg 66-67
The Europeans, starting this conflict for their own benefit of pillaging the land for themselves. I think that they raised the heads on stakes as a way to show dominance and strike fear just like had happened in the medieval times. It was also a way to objectify the people as later they would sell them, often for a pretty penny to encourage the slaughter and genocide

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“Unable to eliminate the Indigenous population by open warfare, the British eventually launched a campaign of systematic destruction of the Powhatan agricultural resources. This series of raids against the indigenous fields and villages is sometimes called the Tidewater War (1644-1646), although it was not really a war but more like a series of attacks with the goal of starving the people out of the area.”

The British ultimately decided to launch a attack to cause a famine by pillaging hoping to starve the the people off. All for some land on a foreign  continent that they had absolutely no right to but thought that god wanted them to. They thought that their supernatural being of righteousness wanted them to starve and slaughter innocent people for some land. They were quite greedy.

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“From the time settlers first squatted on Indigenous land in the Southeast, rangers were in the forefront of the genocide, clearing the region for British settlements as they had in New England. When the British established the Colony of Georgia in 1732, its commander, General James Oglethorpe, commissioned a Scots Highlander, Hugh Mackay Jr., to organize and train his smaller regular army to become a Highland Ranger force.” Pg 74

The British had their ranger force, not only for simply clearing the land and killing the people, But also to loot and burn villages, capture some as slaves and hunt those who escaped. As well as still taking and selling scalps. They British now moved forward by brute force.

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“In the French and Indian War (1754-1763), the British found that the Cherokee Nation was an Extremely Powerful Ally to the French. In October 1759, the North Carolina governor presented the strategy that the British would use against the Cherokee:” pg 75

In addition to having many conflicts with Indigenous peoples of all kinds, the British and the French were and had been rivals for many years at this point. Therefore, when the French and the Cherokee became allies, the British became uneasy, as you had the modern military expertise and resources with the French and the knowledge of the land and lesser known fighting strategies with the Cherokee. Britain began strategizing as it began to become more and more uneasy. They began planning to destroy all Cherokee towns and enslave everyone over the age of ten. When the war started they did just that and much more. After the war was over, the French pulled back from the region. However the Giant Cherokee nation still stood strong.

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"But the military also recognized the potential for disease to make their work easier. For example, Major General Jeffery Amherst, who commanded the British army in the Seven Years War (1756-1763) is best known for his support of using germ warfare against Indigenous peoples."

this introduction of germ warfare was a gruesome one. Because they Indigenous peoples had 1, good hygiene compared to Europe and 2, had never been exposed to these new diseases, their immune systems were pretty weak against them and they didn't know how to treat it, making germ warfare extremely deadly. I wonder who came up with this idea.

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"In 1763 King George III of England declared that no British subjects should settle on Indigenous lands in the Ohio country west of a "proclamation line." This action angered both settlers who wanted to move into that region and the land speculators who sought to profit from selling land there."

Despite this, in part because they were already angry with their king for his other taxes and policies, squatters and speculators move into Ohio Country disregarding the line. Most settled on the land of the Shawnee Nation, which of course angered them. They responded with anger. the result was "Lord Dunmores War".

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"A few Cherokee towns that had been hit hardest by rangers responded by attacking squatter settlements, destroying several in 1776. Separatist leaders quickly announced their determination to destroy the Cherokee Nation." pg 77

For simply trying to fight back in retaliation for the mass genocides committed against them, they were met with people determined to wipe them off the face of the planet. they then stormed the towns killing, and scalping them. And for what I still cannot understand.