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  2. Indigenous response to colonialism - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous women and children were forced to do domestic work. Even after slavery was outlawed by the Spanish Empire, and then ex-colonies such as the Mexican and United States governments, those that benefitted from slavery used legal frameworks to avoid enforcement such as vagrancy laws, convict leasing, and debt peonage. [40]

  3. Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Contemporary illustration of the 1868 Washita massacre by the 7th Cavalry against Black Kettle's band of Cheyenne, during the American Indian Wars.Violence and conflict with colonists were also important causes of the decline of certain Indigenous American populations since the 16th century.

  4. History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products.

  5. Millions of Native people were enslaved in the Americas ... - AOL

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    A partial view of Monument to the Bandeiras in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which depicts settling expeditions during which Indigenous people were killed and enslaved in the region in colonial times, in a ...

  6. Child development of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Styles of children’s learning across various indigenous communities in the Americas have been practiced for centuries prior to European colonization and persist today. [2] Despite extensive anthropological research, efforts made towards studying children’s learning and development in Indigenous communities of the Americas as its own ...

  7. History of Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Indian activists from around the country joined them at Pine Ridge, and the occupation became a symbol of rising American Indian identity and power. Federal law enforcement officials and the national guard cordoned off the town, and the two sides had a standoff for 71 days. During much gunfire, one United States Marshal was wounded and ...

  8. Elizabeth Hanson (captive of Native Americans) - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Meader Hanson (September 17, 1684—c.1737) was a colonial Anglo-American woman from Dover, New Hampshire, who survived Native American Abenaki capture and captivity in the year 1725 alongside four of her children. [1] Five months after capture, a French family ransomed Elizabeth and her two children in Canada.

  9. Indian commerce with early English colonists and the early ...

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    Indian commercial development is defined as the economic evolution of Native American tribes from hunter-gatherer based societies into fur-trade-based industries. From the early 1500s to the 1800s, intertribal and European relationships evolved in response to the growth of English settlements into the United States.