Native Americans in the United States: Timeline

1567   A Spanish force under the command of Captain Juan Pardo establishes Fort San Juan in the Native American Native Americans in the United States

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 settlement of Joara. The fort is the first European settlement in present day North Carolina North Carolina

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1636   The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia Militia

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 regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians Native Americans in the United States

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. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard United States National Guard

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1711   John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried Christoph von Graffenried

Christoph von Graffenried led a group of Swiss and Palatine Germans to North Carolina in 1710, and later... 

, two African American African American

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 slaves and two Native American Native Americans in the United States

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s leave on an exploration expedition from New Bern New Bern, North Carolina

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 and travel north by canoe up the Neuse River. This event has also been attributed to September 12, 1711.

1924   U.S. President Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge

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 signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship Citizenship

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 to all Native Americans Native Americans in the United States

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 born within the territorial limits of the United States United States

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