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The St. Croix Band are signatories to the Treaty of St. Peters (1837), also known as the "White Pine Treaty," which ceded lands so that lumbermen could harvest the great number of White pine growing along the St. Croix River watershed. This treaty assured the signatory Tribes of the right to continue to enjoy traditional hunting, fishing and ...
According to the 2010 Census of the United States Virgin Islands, about 1.4% of the territory's total population was Asian which includes people of Indian descent. [6] The Census does not record people of Indian descent separately. Roopnarine estimates that around 1,000 people of Indian origin reside in the United States Virgin Islands. [5]
By 1733, St. John had a population of 1,295, 84% of which were enslaved peoples. [23] Following a drought in the late 1720s, the Danish West India Company sought to expand to the nearby island of St. Croix to acquire more arable land. The island had been unoccupied by its French owners since 1696.
The St. Croix Labor Riot of 1878, also known as the Fireburn, was a crucial historical event of resistance and labor hardship in the Danish West Indies, illustrating the lasting effects of the slavery and systematic exploitation of liberated laborers. Even after emancipation was declared in 1848, former enslaved peoples of African descent were ...
The St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin (or the St. Croix Band for short) are a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people located in Northwest Wisconsin, along the St. Croix River valley and watershed. The band had 1,054 members as of 2010. [1]
He is the author of various works on New England Native American history including Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880; and Behind the Frontier: Indians in ...
The island's indigenous Taino name is Ay Ay ("the river"). [3] Its indigenous Carib name is Cibuquiera ("the stony land"). [3] Its modern name, Saint Croix, is derived from the French Sainte-Croix, itself a translation of the Spanish name Isla de la Santa Cruz (meaning "island of the Holy Cross") given by Christopher Columbus in 1493. [4]
Saint Croix Island (French: Île Sainte-Croix), long known to locals as Dochet Island (/ ˈ d u ʃ eɪ /), is a small uninhabited island in Maine near the mouth of the Saint Croix River that forms part of the Canada–United States border separating Maine from New Brunswick.