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unusual facts about European American



Mist, Oregon

The Nehalem River valley widens between Mist and Jewell, and was favored by the Native American tribes of the area for hunting; it was later favored by early European American settlers for agriculture.


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Arquette family

The Arquette family is a European-American show business family.

Bill Belzer

The band's breakup coincided with Belzer leaving to join Uncle Tupelo as drummer for a stint on their European-American Tour with Michelle Shocked, The Band and Taj Mahal in the early 1990s.

Columbus, Kansas

It was named Columbus by A.L. Peters, one of the European-American founders, for his hometown of Columbus, Ohio; the name thus indirectly honors Christopher Columbus, the explorer.

Franz Allers

Franz Allers (August 6, 1905, Carlsbad, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) – January 26, 1995, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A.) was a European-American conductor of ballet, opera, Broadway musicals, film scores, and symphony orchestras.

Green Corn Rebellion

In early August 1917, preceding the rebellion, large numbers of African-American, European-American, and Native American men gathered at the farm of John Spears in Sasakwa to plan a march upon Washington, DC to end the war.

Lenape settlements

In 1808-09 early European-American settlers to the area of what is now Jeromesville in Ashland County, Ohio, on the Jerome Fork of the Mohican River found Delaware people living at the old Mohican village of Johnstown (about three-fourths of a mile southwest of the present site of Jeromesville) near which was located the home of Old Captain Pipe.

Pender, Nebraska

European-American settlers founded the village in April 1885, naming it in honor of the Scottish politician and businessman Sir John Pender, a pioneer of the Transatlantic Cable.

Princess Winona

The journals of Zebulon Pike (1805) contain a brief mention of the legend; this is the earliest instance of it being recorded and mentioned by a European American.

William Whipple Warren

Her multi-racial ancestry was similar to his: she was the daughter of William Alexander Aitken, a European-American fur trader, and Gin-gion-cumig-oke, an Ojibwe woman.