What Happened During The American Indian Movement ?
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In thirty years of overall history of the American Indian Movement, it has witnessed several great changes due to its impact. This history is basically the formal history just because this movement have been existent for last five hundred years but got a name 30 years ago. The movement had made steady progress all these years and the movement actually transformed policies into programs and thus this organization has served Indians in various communities.More...
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Facts About Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus one of the most popular explorers throughout the world as well as the colonizer touring across the whole of the Atlantic Ocean is known for discovering American Continents. He is known for the contribution towards the establishment of an association between the Europeans and the indigenous Americans.More...
History Of American Indian Religion
Indian systems of rituals and beliefs were as multitude as the tribes that inhabited North America. In order to understand the history of the American Indian religion, one needs to get the details of its origin as well as its development. At the time of the European contact, all of the indigenous cultures within North America had actually developed coherent religious systems which included creations of myths that were passed down by mouth from one generation to another. It professed explaining how these societies had actually come into existence.More...
Biography On Christopher Columbus
Though there are different opinions regarding the place as well as the date regarding Christopher Columbus’s birth but people generally accept that his birth place is Genoa, Italy and he was born in the year 1451. His father, Domenico Colombo, worked as wool weaver, while his mother was called Susanna Fontanarossa. He had 3 brothers.
Not much information is available regarding his childhood or his early life; there are only a few writings that can be accounted for. Columbus had claimed in various journals that he started off going to sea when he was just 10 years of age.More...
Biography Of Juan Ponce De Leon
Juan Ponce de León y Figueroa, a Spanish Explorer was born between (1460 – July 1521). He belonged to a noble Spanish royal family. Juan Ponce de León, born in a village called Santervas De Campos, which is now the northern part of Spain. Although historians sited his birth taking place in 1460, but the recent facts show he was born in 1474. His family lineage is tremendously mystifying and there were no good documentation to clear this fact also.More...
Facts About Leif Ericsson
Leif Ericsson was a Norseman from Iceland who is hailed as the first European explorer to set foot in North America, that too about five hundred years prior to Christopher Columbus. He was born in the year, 960 A.D. as the renowned explorer, Erik the Red’s son. At the age of 10, Leif moved to Greenland with his father, as Iceland had banned the latter. By the time he was twenty four, Leif went out to Norway to make his first voyage, which was his family’s homeland.More...
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