Native-Americans and First Peoples Chapters

For thousands of years before Europeans colonized the "New World," the land belonged to others. Who were those individuals now-known as "First Peoples" or "Native Americans?" How did they live? Where are they now?

Coming of age traditions in Hawaiian royal history.

Lewis and William Clark start the Corps of Discovery to explore the west; 45 men took food, supplies, gifts for Indians and rifles.

The Homestead Act allows anyone who has not fought against the U.S., and is head of a family, to get 160-acres.

Ali’i - The Hawaiian noble order. Aloha - The word of greeting, departure and general affection in between. Hale - Grass house....

Thomas Jefferson buys land from Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803 and makes plans to explore it.

Many Japanese soldiers and civilians on Saipan kill themselves so Marines do not capture them.

My story is about the Hawaiian Overthrow in Hawaii and how the throne was taken away from Queen Liliuokalani (the first and last queen of Hawaii). It ...

Hawaiian ali'i (noble) ohana (families) traced their origins back to great leaders from the mythic past.  And those connections were made th...

Iolani palace is now very modern, Old, and had a very long history.

Some don't want Jefferson to expand because the cost is too high, but he makes a good deal and gets the chance to explore the new land.

Kapu are sacred rules that the Hawaiian's thought of as a religion.

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