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Native Americans
1400: Nashua Indian people of the Pennacook Confederacy settle along the Nashua River.
1. What changes did these people make to their environment in the river valley?
2. Predict what will happen as a result of these changes.
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Fur Traders and Lumbermen
1600's: First colonial settlements in New England.
1616-17: Indian settlements devastated by smallpox epidemic.
1. What changes did these people make to their environment in the river valley?
2. Predict what will happen as a result of these changes.
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Native Americans
1400: Nashua Indian people of the Pennacook Confederacy settle along the Nashua River.
1. What changes did these people make to their environment in the river valley?
2. Predict what will happen as a result of these changes.
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Native Americans
1400: Nashua Indian people of the Pennacook Confederacy settle along the Nashua River.
1. What changes did these people make to their environment in the river valley?
2. Predict what will happen as a result of these changes.
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Marrion Stoddart
1962: Marion Stoddart organizes the Nashua River Cleanup Committee, and the city of Leominster gets permission from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to dump 150 million gallons of raw sewage per day into the Nashua river.
1965: U.S. congress passes Clean Water Act. Paper companies along the Nashua River join together to build a treatment plant, and 400-500 youths work for five months to clear trash from the riverbed and banks.
1970: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formed, and Federal Clean Water Act states that all U.S. waters be fishable by 1983.
1979: Bass, pickerel, perch, trout, bald eagles, osprey, and great blue heron return to the Nashua.
1. What changes did these people make to their environment in the river valley?
2. Predict what will happen as a result of these changes.
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Use the last card for the teacher or for another group if you have a large class.
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