The Susquehannock are an Iroquoian-speaking people. Little of the Susquehannock language has been preserved in published print. The chief source is a Vocabula Mahakuassica compiled by the Swedish missionary Johannes Campanius during the 1640s. Campanius' vocabulary contains about 100 words and is sufficient to show that Susquehannock is a Northern Iroquoian …

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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native Americans out of Virginia. Thousands of Virginians from all classes (including those in indentured servitude) and races rose up in arms against …

The Doeg (also called Dogue, Taux, Tauxenent) were a Native American people who lived in Virginia.They spoke an Algonquian language and may have been a branch of the Nanticoke tribe, historically based on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.The Nanticoke considered the Algonquian Lenape as "grandfathers". The Doeg are known for a raid in July 1675 that contributed to …

The Powhatan people (/ ˌ p aʊ h ə ˈ t æ n, ˈ h æ t ən /; also spelled Powatan) may refer to any of the indigenous Algonquian people that are traditionally from eastern Virginia. All of the Powhatan groups descend from the Powhatan Confederacy.In some instances, The Powhatan may refer to one of the leaders of the people. This is most commonly the case in historical records from …

16-07-2021 · In 1642, Maryland declared war on the Susquehannock tribe. Battles like this would lead to events such as Bacon's Rebellion. The Carolina Colonies were founded to create more profit for England.

The Iroquois (/ ˈ ɪr ə k w ɔɪ / or / ˈ ɪr ə k w ɑː /), officially the Haudenosaunee (/ ˌ h oʊ d i n oʊ ˈ ʃ oʊ n iː / meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/Turtle Island.They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy.

New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw Nederland; Latin: Novum Belgium or Neerlandia) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic that was located on the east coast of what is now the United States.The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to southwestern Cape Cod, while the more limited settled areas are now part of the U.S. states of New York, …

Alaska Natives are a group of indigenous people that live in the state of Alaska and trace their heritage back to the last two great migrations that occurred thousands of years ago. The Native community can be separated into six large tribes and a number of smaller tribes, including the Iñupiat, Yup'ik, Aleut, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and others.

22-12-2021 · Sir William Berkeley was the longest-serving governor of Virginia (1641–1652, 1660–1677), a playwright, and author of Discourse and View of Virginia (1663), which argued for a more diversified colonial economy. After being educated at Oxford and after a brief study of the law, Berkeley gained access to the royal circle surrounding King Charles I, and one of his …