Cawvey Timeline

The Arapaho Indians have lived on the plains of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas since the 17th Century. Prior to that, they had roots in Minnesota before European expansion forced them westward. At that time they were a sedentary, agricultural people, living in permanent villages in the eastern woodlands. However, that changed when they moved west and the tribe became a nomadic people following the great buffalo herds.

The Arapaho refer to themselves as ‘Inuna-Ina’ which translates to "our people.” Their language is of Algonquin heritage, as is that of their close neighbors the Cheyenne. When they began to drift west, the Arapaho soon became close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and were later loosely aligned with the Sioux.

The Plains Arapaho soon split into two separate tribes, the northern and southern Arapaho. The Northern Arapaho lived along the edges of the mountains at the headwaters of the Platte River, while the southern Arapaho moved towards the Arkansas River.

Olmec

1500 b.c

The Ancestral Puebloans were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.

The Anasazi ("Ancient Ones"), thought to be ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians, inhabited the Four Corners country of southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and northern Arizona from about A.D. 200 to A.D. 1300,

This kiva is from the Sand Canyon Pueblo, Crow Canyon, in the Mesa Verde region and dates back to the 13th century. The famed cliff dwellings were built into the mountainsides with but one exit for the sake of defense. ... These pits, called kivas, served as religious temples for the ancient Anasazi.

Anasazi

200 a.d

they may have came from mexico about 300 B.C.

HOHOKAM is the name given by archaeologists to a prehistoric culture centered along the Salt, Gila, Verde, and Santa Cruz Rivers in the low, hot Sonoran desert of southern Arizona between approximately 300 b.c. and a.d. 1450.

the hohokam indeins lived for 100s of years.

Hohokam

300 a.d

maya

900 a.d

the maya built their civilization in the steamy rain forests of present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize. They planted maize, beans, sweet potatoes, and other vegetables to feed their large population, which may have reached 2 million people.by A.D. 300, the maya had built many large cities in the area.each city had at least one stone pyramid.some pyramids reached about 200 feet (61 m)-the height of a 20-story building.

the inca state was built on war,and the inca army was powerful. all men between 25 and 50 years could be drafted to serve in the army for up to 5 years.their weapons included clubs, spears, and spiked copper balls on ropes. using slings, inca soldiers could throw stones 30 yards (27 m).

Inca 1200 a.d

Language: Kickapoo is an Algonquian language closely related to Mesquakie-Sauk (some linguists even consider it a dialect of Mesquakie-Sauk). Kickapoo and Mesquakie-Sauk are both polysynthetic languages with complex verb morphology and fairly free word order. Unlike Mesquakie-Sauk, however, Kickapoo is a tone language--the high or low pitch of a vowel can change a Kickapoo word's meaning. Kickapoo is spoken in three distinct language areas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico, by a combined 800 people. The language is most vigorous in Mexico, where some children are still learning it at home; in America Kickapoo is endangered, though revitalization efforts are ongoing. In the past, Kickapoo Indians also used a unique linguistic code called "whistle speech" to convey simple utterances, but today that is a lost art.

Kickapoo

early 19th centery

Dakota and Lakota are Siouan languages of the Great Plains. They are so closely related that most linguists consider them dialects of the same language, similar to the difference between British and American English. There are some differences in pronunciation, but they are very regular, and Dakota and Lakota Indians can almost always understand each other. The Nakota languages--Stoney and Assiniboine--are also closely related languages but a Dakota or Lakota Sioux speaker cannot easily understand them without language lessons, similar to the difference between Spanish and Portuguese. There are a combined 26,000 speakers of Lakota and Dakota Sioux in the western United States and southern Canada, especially in their namesake states of North and South Dakota.

Dakota-Lakota 19th century

Beaver, known to its own speakers as Danezaa, is an Athabaskan language of Northern Canada. The Beaver language is spoken by about 300 people in British Columbia and Alberta. Like most Athabaskan languages, it is a tone language with SOV word order and is agglutinating.

Beaver 21st century

Beaver, self-name Dane-zaa, Dane-zaa also spelled Dunneza, a small Athabaskan-speaking North American First Nations (Indian) band living in the mountainous riverine areas of northwestern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia, Canada. In the early 18th century they were driven westward into that area by the expanding Cree, who, armed with guns, were exploiting the European fur trade. The name Beaver derives from the Indian name for their main site, Tsades, or River of Beavers, now called the Peace River.

Traditionally, the Beaver were scattered in many independent nomadic bands, each with its own hunting territory. They hunted moose, caribou, bears, and bison. They were led by shamans called “dreamers.” The Beaver lived in skin-covered tepees in winter and brush-covered tepees or lean-tos in summer, and they traveled mainly by canoe. At least, that is how they lived when first encountered by Europeans, after they had adopted many cultural elements of the Cree. At the end of the 20th century, researchers determined that the Beaver had made use of a different type of dwelling prior to their contact with the Cree. Earlier they had lived in shelters divided into two rooms—one for storage and the other for sleeping—by a passageway having an entrance or exit at either end.

In the 21st century they occupied four reservations, including the region of Horse Lake near Hythe, Alta.; on the upper Halfway River northwest of Fort St. John, B.C.; on the Blueberry River north of Fort St. John; and on the Doig River just east of the Halfway River reserve. As signers of Treaty 8 (1899), the Beaver have the right to hunt, trap, and fish throughout their territory. Beaver descendants numbered more than 750 in the early 21st century

Beaver, known to its own speakers as Danezaa, is ...