Amateur history for (a) future historian(s)
On December 29, 1890, at least 150 Native Americans of the Miniconjou Lakota people, including 89 women and children, were massacred by troops from the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under the command of Colonel James Forsyth. As news of the massacre spread east from Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in …
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Geographic environment can have a vital impact on the manner in which cultures develop. In the western hemisphere, many Native American peoples developed cultures and societies directly influenced by the geography of their home regions. One way of determining the extent to which geography impacts the development of civilization can be gleaned by comparing pre-Columbian …
Inevitable Historicity