Native American

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Introduction
Native American culture areas
- The Arctic
- The Subarctic
- The Northeast
- The Southeast
- The Plains
- The Southwest
- The Great Basin
- California
- The Northwest Coast
- The Plateau
Prehistory
- Paleo-Indian cultures
  - The Clovis and Folsom cultures
  - Pre-Clovis cultures
- Archaic cultures
  - Pacific Coast Archaic cultures
  - Desert Archaic cultures
  - Plains Archaic cultures
  - Eastern Archaic cultures
- Prehistoric farmers
  - Southwestern cultures: the Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon, and Hohokam
  - Eastern Woodland cultures
  - Mississippian cultures
  - Plains Woodland and Plains Village cultures
Native American history
- North America and Europe circa 1492
  - The population of Native America
  - Native American ethnic and political diversity
  - European populations and polities
- Colonial goals and geographic claims: the 16th and 17th centuries
  - Spain
  - France
  - England
  - The Netherlands and Sweden
- Native Americans and colonization: the 16th and 17th centuries
  - Southwest peoples
  - Southeast peoples
  - Northeast peoples
    - The mid-Atlantic Algonquians
    - The Iroquoians of Huronia
  - Subarctic and Arctic peoples
- The chessboard of empire: the late 17th to the early 19th century
  - Eastern North America and the Subarctic
    - Queen Anne’s War (1702–13) and the Yamasee War (1715–16)
    - The French and Indian War (1754–63) and Pontiac’s War (1763–64)
    - The American Revolution (1775–83)
    - The War of 1812 (1812–14)
  - The Southwest and the southern Pacific Coast
  - The northern Pacific Coast
  - The Plains and Plateau culture areas
- Domestic colonies: the late 18th to the late 19th century
  - Removal of the eastern nations
  - The conquest of the western United States
  - The conquest of western Canada
    - The Red River crisis and the creation of Manitoba
    - The Numbered Treaties and the Second Riel Rebellion
- Assimilation versus sovereignty: the late 19th to the late 20th century
  - Allotment
  - Boarding schools
  - Reorganization
  - Termination
Developments in the late 20th and early 21st centuries
- The outplacement and adoption of indigenous children
- Religious freedom
- Repatriation and the disposition of the dead
- Economic development: tourism, tribal industries, and gaming
- International developments

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