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Contents

1 Introduction The Land Early Peoples

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2 Native American Cultures People of the Far North

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The Northeast The Southeast The Great Plains The Southwest

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The Great Basin and the Northwest

B uffalo Bull’s Back Fat was chief of one of the Blackfoot nations. The Blackfoot lived in the north of the Great Plains.

3 The Savage Invasion The First Explorers

The Spanish Search for Gold

Early Settlers

Mapping the Interior Down the Mississippi 4 Colonization European Rivalries The Defeat of France

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Independence

5 The Fight for Land Further West Through the Plains

The Last Stand

6 Recent Times New Treaties

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Regrowth

Time Chart

Glossary

Index

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