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History of Oregon

Last Modified: August 26, 2013

The Oregon Territory was home to many Native American tribes including the Bannock, Chasta, Chinook, Kalapuya, Klamath, Molalla, Nez Perce, Takelma, and Umpqua when the Lewis and Clark Expedition travelled through in 1805. There they stopped for the winter and built Fort Clatsop near the Columbia River in Oregon. In 1811, Great Britain and the […]

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History of Lake Tahoe

Last Modified: August 26, 2013

Lake Tahoe is a vast lake running north to south divided in the middle, half in California and half in Nevada. Its depth is 1,645 ft (501 m) and I’ve read that if you tipped Lake Tahoe on its side, it would cover the state of California to a depth of 8 inches. It is surrounded by […]

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History of Ohio

Last Modified: June 10, 2010

In the mid-17th century when the Iroquois confederation depleted the beaver and other game in the New York region, they launched a war known as the Beaver Wars. The Iroquois sought to expand their territory and monopolize the fur trade between European markets and the tribes of the western Great Lakes region. They destroyed their […]

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History of New York

Last Modified: June 11, 2010

Before European settlement in the New York State area, Native American tribes inhabited the area. The Wappani or Wappinger Tribe of Native Americans were an Algonquin speaking tribe living in the Hudson River area. There were somewhat nomadic around the Hudson River but planted maize in Manhattan during the summer. People that spoke the Iroquoian […]

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History of Maryland

Last Modified: June 10, 2010

The first European person to explore Maryland was John Cabot in 1498. At the time he found only Native American tribes within the area. Maryland was not settled by Europeans until the 1600s. At that time the main tribes included the Nanticoke on the Eastern Shore and the Shawnee inland. People of the Cherokee Tribe […]

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History of Nevada

Last Modified: June 10, 2010

The state of Nevada has the nickname, “Silver State,” due to the vast silver deposits within the state. Today, 80% of all silver mining happens in Nevada. In 1864, Nevada became the 36th state to enter the Union of the United States of America. The state flag bears the term “Battle Born,” reflecting the state’s […]

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History of Illinois

Last Modified: June 10, 2010

Louis Jolliet and Father Marquette arrived in Illinois in 1673 as explorers for the French empire. They claimed the region for France and it remained a French territory until 1763, when it passed to the British. The area was then ceded to the United States in 1783 and became part of the Northwest Territory acquisition. […]

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History of Colorado

Last Modified: June 10, 2010

Before the Spanish arrived in New Spain in the 1500s, the area now known as Colorado was inhabited for many thousand of years by people local to the Rocky Mountains as shown by archeological finds. When the Spanish first visited the Rocky Mountains in 1598, they found Native American tribes such as Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, […]

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History of California

Last Modified: June 10, 2010

By the early 1800s when Merriweather Lewis and William Clark reached the West Coast of the America, the Spanish had been in California for three hundred years. Spain had maintained a number of missions and presidios in New Spain since 1519 and laid claim to the north costal provinces of California in 1542. The royalty […]

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History of Alaska

Last Modified: June 10, 2010

The land mass known today as Alaska was originally occupied only by Native peoples that had been in the area for thousands of years before European or Russian explorers arrived in the 1700s.  The Inuit people inhabited much of the central to northern areas.  The southern and Panhandle (See the circle on the map.) areas […]

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