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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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“For example, military historian John W. Shy noted that when John Smith of the Jamestown colony wrote of his “soldiers”, he meant only those men who at that moment had guns in their hands and who had been ordered to help him look out for danger.”(P65)

“Smith threatened to harm Powhatan communities, including women and children, if the Powhatans did not provide the colony with food. . . . the English governor ordered George Percy, . . . , to take over and destroy the indigenous population.”(P70)

Throughout the history of North American colonization, genocide has occurred in efforts to erase Indigenous people from the face of the earth. One example of the many instances was that of the Jamestown militia killing anyone who looked like a Native American, as a ‘precaution’. Another occurs when the people of Jamestown ruthlessly slaughtered the entire civilization in an act of anger because the natives refused to give the colony food.

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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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“After killing most of the Pequot defenders, the soldiers set fire to the structures and burned the remaining people there alive.”(P73)

“The fear [of the Pequot people] was so great that they destroyed the Pequot’s homes and food supplies and forced them to leave their homelands.”(P73)

The colonists made excuse after excuse to kill off the Pequot people, from the supposed murder of one of their men, to retaliation and retribution. In the end, even that was not enough, and in the need to be absolutely sure of their dominance, the colony ultimately eradicated the Pequots from the area entirely.

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“Unable to eliminate the Indigenous population through open warfare, the British eventually launched a campaign of systematic destruction of the Powhatan agricultural resources. This series of raids against Indigenous fields and villages is sometimes called the Tidewater War (1644-1646), although it was not really a war but a series of attacks with the goal of starving the people out of the area.”(P71)

Yet another example of the countless ways the colonists underhandedly defeated the Natives and forced them off the land, this particular instance seems particularly cruel. They could not manage the Indigenous peoples through fair fighting, so they sabotaged them instead.

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“When the British established the colony of Georgia in 1732, it’s commander, General James Oglethorpe, . . ., to organize and train his small regular army to become a Highland Ranger force. . . . —in other words, [they were] brutal killers.”(P74)

The Georgia colony established this militia for one reason; to kill natives. This is another example of a time when the colonists behaved cruelly and acted in genocide against the Indigenous people.

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“The British then moved on, razing fifteen more towns and burning fourteen hundred acres of corn. At the end of this campaign, five thousand Cherokees were made refugees, and the number of deaths remained uncounted. When the French and Indian War ended, the French left the region, ceding to the British all the land they had claimed east of the Mississippi River. . . ., this included Cherokee territory, although the Cherokee Nation had never agreed to be part of France.”(P76)

“ . . ., the Cherokke again found themselves in the middle of warring nations seeking to enlist them as allies. . . . separatist representatives threatened the towns with complete destruction if they did not remain neutral.”(P76-77)

Once more, the Indigenous people in this passage were taken advantage of. They were mistreated and their land was destroyed, and then they were expected to behave for the colonists. Somehow the colonists considered these actions to be justified, and these kinds of treatments have occurred throughout the past centuries in the relationship between Europeans and Natives.

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“For example, Major General Jeffery Amherst, who commanded the British army in the Seven Year War (1756-1763) is best known for his support of germ warfare against Indigenous peoples. ‘Could it not be contrived,’ . . . ‘to send Small Pox among those Disaffected Tribes of Indians? We must, on this occasion, Use Every Stratagem in our power to Reduce them.’”(P68)

This passage shows the cruel acts of using disease to get rid of Natives. The idea that the colonists were okay with the concept of wiping out entire population through purposeful introduction to a deadly disease is sheer insanity.

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“In his [John Murray] view no royal policy [the Proclamation Line] could prevent settlers’ seizure of Indigenous land. . . ., squatters moved into the Ohio Country, settling on the farmlands and hunting grounds of the Shawnee Nation.”(P80)

This marks one of the tipping points in which people began to disobey the King of England in attempts to further steal land from the Natives. This action came with steep consequences for them, and yet it was still not enough deterrence for them, for they believed they were entitled to the land.

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“By 1779 General George Washington ordered preemptive action against the Haudenosaunee. He dictated to Alexander Hamilton a letter to be sent to Major General John Sullivan. His orders were

to lay waste. All the settlements around . . . that the country may not be merely overrun but destroyed. . . . You will not by any means, listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected. . . . Our future security will be in their inability to injure us . . . and in the terror with which the severity of the chastisement they receive will inspire them.”(P85)

The entirety of this message and these actions was to put fear into the hearts of the Natives, and to use this fear to control them and get them off of the land, yet another instance of unjust usage of power within the militias of the colonists.

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—this was found in the first passage of chapter 5–

“Negotiations to end the war gave birth to an independent nation: the United States of America. In the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the Crown ceded to the United States territory . . . Much of that land, however, wasn’t theirs to transfer. It still belonged to the Indigenous nations, many of which had allied with the British in order to protect their homelands from the land-hungry Americans [United Statesians]. But no Indigenous nations were represented at the treaty negotiations in Paris; they were not invited or consulted.”(P88)

This shows that no matter how much the colonists seemed to be aware, and definitely involved with, the Natives, they still overlooked them, and viewed the Indigenous people as ‘below themselves’ at every opportunity.