Sentence examples for indian settlement from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, unofficial trading activities continued until 1744, when the company's servants lost their last Indian settlement.

One of the oldest communities in the state, it was originally a Potawatomi Indian settlement.

Formerly an Abenaki Indian settlement known as Pequawket, Fryeburg was one of the state's first English farming communities.

After she was baptized at age 20, she fled to a Catholic Indian settlement in what is now Canada.

The next day he sees his first Indian settlement, its ragtag residents demoralized and starving, reduced to eating grasshoppers.

At the local rangers' station, a placard describes the Lost City, an ancient Indian settlement drowned when the Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s.

Archaeological evidence indicates that prehistoric Indian settlements existed in Nevada more than 20,000 years ago.

Along with the miners went Roman Catholic priests, and some Indian settlements received Jesuit missions.

But, she added, no preserved underwater Indian settlements or clusters of artifacts have been found -- and no one has looked.

There were Indian settlements nearby, but none on the site, nor was it part of the original Dutch trading post.

Alcaldes de indios were minor officials in the civil reducciones (Indian settlements) who answered to the cacique (local Indian chief) and the Spanish corregidor of the district.