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American Indian History
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1. Located in the Cross Timbers area (S. Kansas - thru OKC - DFW area). Caddo speaking. Closely related to the Pawnee. Sometimes called Pawnee Noir(dark skinned) or Pawnee Picts (tatoos).4 bands - names of many area landmarks come from them including Ta
Wichitas
Kiva
San Carlos - Geronimo
The Fort Sill Apache
2. British Sailor - first to get to California - shows up in SF Bay- shocks Spaniards they think English have found NW passage and so think they had better claim it first and send questionable people to colonize NM
Pope'
Sir Frances Drake
Mother-in-law Taboo
Ranchitas
3. New apache reservation in Northern Arizona. Indian Agent John Clum sets up Apache police force/most apache move here but not Geronimo and his band. He goes to Mexico & is joined by Victorio and his sister Lozen (healer - warrior - seer of enemies - h
San Carlos - Geronimo
Caddos
Mogollon
Dodge Family
4. Not as flexible as Jesuits - dominant religious order in NM very dedicated - active in spreading gospel but try to make Indians work missions and stamp out Native Americanism as paganism
Diggers
Lava Beds
Carlton
Franciscans
5. 8 -000 bc to ? In the Americas - name for hunter gatherer societies of that time - nomadic groups follow what can be found seasonally
Sir Frances Drake
Archaic Period
The Southern Cult
Mangas Colorado
6. Any object transformed in anyway by humans - stone - wood - bone - arrowheads - campfires
Artifact
Canyon de Chelley
Mission System
General Nelson Miles
7. Apaches who originally lived in northern NM but moved to NE Arizona to protect their herds. Occupy desert SW - farm and are sedentary
Navajos
The Southern Cult
Carlton
Curly Headed Doctors
8. On the mothers side: a boy's relationship with his matrilineal uncle was equal to that with his father - reason- you are a memeber of your mother's family. Family ties are super important. Cousins are as close as your brothers and sisters.
Carlton
Mangas Colorado
Anasazi
Avunculate
9. Small forts associated with missions. Used by Spanish in the SW to protect these missions and were Spains defensive frontier
General Edward Camby
Archaic Period
Presidios
Diggers
10. When Carlton gained control over the Navajos he forced them to remove from their home land.. to a reservation called Bosque Redondo - it was the forced march of many Navajo to Fort Sumner - New Mexico - where they were imprisoned in 1864.
Encomienda
Carlton
The Long Walk
Navajos
11. Conducts campaigns against the Navajo - attacks homes in Canyon de Chelley and cuts down their orchards Forces Navajo to remove east - known by Navajo as 'The Long Walk'
Cibola
Carlton
Royal Whitman
Coahuiltecans
12. Major language group (of caddos - pawnees - wichitas). A central plain language
The Spanish Fort
Cibola
Caddoan
Mogollon
13. Apache leader - led Apaches at Santa Rita del Cobre mine/had truce witht the miners - but are ambushed by miners pretending to host a feast for them to get Apache scalp bounty money. Juan Jose's followers turn to Mangas Colorado after this for his he
Artifact
Archaic Period
Juan Jose
Bosque Redondo
14. Hill Country Indians of Central Texas . Small tribes with confusing language roots. Hunter - gatherers - teepee dwellers. Served as Army scouts against the other tribes which caused resentment from them. They were never a very large group and they we
Tonkawas
Sororate
The Hero Twins
Robert Neighbors
15. After Texas became a state - Wichitas were moved west near the Brazos and Neighbors was an Indian Agent who tried to help them. The Comanche continued their attacks and this was blamed on the Wichitas. Neighbors was shot dead in the street - shot in
Robert Neighbors
Dodge Family
San Carlos - Geronimo
Kiva
16. Small bands occupy Texas Coast & off shore Islands from Galveston to Corpus Christi. Had ties to Northern Mexico. They spoke Coahuiltecan - a language from Mexico. They attacked LaSalle at Galveston. They killed the survivors of the boat 'The Lively'
Karankawas
Wichitas
Royal Whitman
Apache
17. 16th Century Spanish system attempted to settle Indians & uses their Indian villages as their center. Uses Catholic priest in role similar to Indian Chief. makes community church cnetered and a self sufficient economy
Tom Jeffreys
General Edward Camby
Mescal
Mission System
18. Replaces General Crook/ very ambitious - wages full blown military campaign that included the Mexican govt - troops - Apache scouts - militia against Geronimo and his 24 men. 1886 Geronimo lays down his arms in Skeleton Canyon. Miles promises him a r
pima or papago
Presidios
General Nelson Miles
Sororate
19. Indians who speak this language and live in south texas brushy area from San Antonio to the Rio Grande. nomadic and hunter gatherers like the desert tradition. Least complex culture of texas. These are the mission indians of Southern Texas who seem t
Atapakans
Coahuiltecans
Sir Frances Drake
Archaic Period
20. Chief spokesman of the Chiricahua Apache - had been at peace until 1860 accused of raiding a ranch in SE Arizona - really raided by mimbrenos - military pursues Cochise and tries to arrest him but fails - hostilities spread
Presidios
General Nelson Miles
Cochise
Holy People
21. Legendary 7 cities said to hold great treasure of 7 bishops who fled spain to North America (from the Moors) Fable inspired Coronado to go to the US southwest out of Mexico in search of these lost cities in 1540
Curly Headed Doctors
Bosque Redondo
Pawnee Noir
Cibola
22. Dark complected Wichita Indian - Coronado thinks is a Moor who can lead him to the 7 cities of Cibola - takes expedition all the way to Wichita KS - finds only grass houses & kills Pawnee Noir - exposes Pueblos to Spaniards - Pueblos start acquiring
pima or papago
Cochise
Pawnee Noir
General Edward Camby
23. ...Geronimo and his 24 men come in and lay down their arms there. General Nelson Miles promises them a return to AZ but instead sends them to FL instead
Skeleton Canyon
Robert Neighbors
Anasazi
The Long Walk
24. The dating of wooden artifacts through tree ring growth
Pre Columbian Period
Canyon de Chelley
dendro chronology
Skeleton Canyon
25. ...Culture of the desert tradition. 300 bc to 1100 ad. Centered in the Phoenix/Tucson area. Influenced by Mogollon culture. Engineers create network of canals. More complex society. Heavily influenced by Mexico
Hohokam
Cochise
Navajos
Mission System
26. Descendents of the Anasazis - mostly in New Mexico - most conservative - group oriented - communal - religious Indian community in North America. spatial relationship to their homeland & a supernatural purpose for being there. Farming a holy act.
Pueblos
Tonkawas
Apache
Pawnee Noir
27. Head of the half of the band of Modocs - his side was the side which started trouble by stealing cattle but nothing too bad until they were all forced out of the res - CHD - some of his people and Hooker Jim went and raided some barns and killed some
Atapakans
Curly Headed Doctors
Archaic Period
Sir Frances Drake
28. Traders arrive in navajo homeland last 2 decades of the 19th century. they set up this trading post. Traders help navajo prosper in selling their goods. Traders marry into Navajo families
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29. Indians of East Texas/SE OK/SW AR/NW LA - closely related to eastern mound building culture. Anadarco is the Center of their tribal government. The name Texas came from them. Highly successful farmers. Had a class structured society. Very concerned w
Pope'
The Long Walk
Caddos
Sir Frances Drake
30. ...Culture of the desert tradition. 300 bc to 1350 ad. Centered in western NM and eastern Arizona. Lived in semi-subterranean houses scattered on ridges. Zunis come out of this culture
Mogollon
General Edward Camby
Pope'
Modocs
31. Indian fighter with respect for Indians 'Humanitarian General'-travels to Mexico & asks Geronimo to come in to San Carlos res and he does. (1884). Then Spring 1885 Geronimo gets drunk & takes followers to Mexico- Crook follows & tries to get him to c
Pueblos
Sir Frances Drake
Ranchitas
General George Crook
32. Example of traders that arrive in navajo homeland last 2 decades of the 19th century. White men who trade - many marry into navajo families. market navajo materials and create interest in their goods. Most live on reservations in their communities.
Navajos
Dodge Family
Cochise
The Long Walk
33. He was over indian affairs in that region - tried to get the modocs a new reservation near tule lake by the lost river. 3 miles long 1 mile wide - but he was opposed by the bureau of indian affairs. he told by the govt to supply troops to move them b
Anasazi
Captain Jack
Mesa Verde
General Edward Camby
34. Head of half the band of the Modocs - He shot and killed the men at the negotiation - including Camby - There was a public execution of him afterwards.
Captain Jack
Pre Columbian Period
Holy People
The Long Walk
35. A man never speaks to his mother-in-law and avoids contacts as much as can. communicates thru his wife
The Southern Cult
Apache
Caddoan
Mother-in-law Taboo
36. Speak Penution - they live on a reservation in Southern Oregon - they get most of the govt's money that comes into the reservation. The klamaths are mean to the modocs - bullying them and so the modocs leave.
Klamath
The Hero Twins
Presidios
Artifact
37. Name means Red Sleeves. A huge man - led mimbreno apache. had been ambushed and flogged in a miner camp in 1851 - scarred for life - this ends a temporary truce between Mimbrenos and miners & leads to Apache attacking throughout the SW. He was also c
Cochise
Mangas Colorado
Caddos
Coahuiltecans
38. In Arizona - sedentary - near Tucson - very peaceful - farmed. Citizens of Tucson attack their village & kill 85 Tontos (only 8 were men- rest women and children) some of the children were literally torn apart. Called The Camp Grant Massacre. Royal W
Encomienda
Karankawas
Sir Frances Drake
Tonto Apache
39. Sport - played on ball courts. Very similar to basketball Played by hohokam culture.
Pawnee Noir
Bosque Redondo
pima or papago
Archaic Period
40. Pueblo religious leader from Taos. Travels pueblo to pueblo planning a revolt/ 1600 revolt breaks out early - Spaniards abandon NM-- Pueblos try to go back to old ways. Pope' tries to centralize leadership but Pueblos don't cooperate. Spaniars return
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41. In Anasazi culture sunken chambers in their plazas for religious activity - for males only
Kiva
Tonkawas
Pawnee Noir
Mescal
42. Between 1850 & 1851 govt agents signed 18 treaties established a big hunk of land to be set aside in the state of CA for Indians.. they were sent to the US for ratification. The senate refuses to ratify them saying that it's way too much land. Finall
General Carlton
Diggers
Ranchitas
Mesa Verde
43. Not spanish at all but actually a Wichita town (or fort) with a moat & stockade. Built on a bend in the Red River. Spanish sent an expedition here that included their cannons but they were forced to retreat from it even leaving cannons behind.
Cochise
The Spanish Fort
Pope'
Lava Beds
44. Indian Agent appointed to SE Arizona Apache res called Apache Pass was a friend of the Apache. Res lasts 5 years but is too close to the Mexico border and the Apache raid across border stealing livestock and returning to sell in US so Govt moves the
Repartimiento
Mission System
Tom Jeffreys
Pawnee Noir
45. Jan - May 1864: about 5 -000 removedNavajo Trail of Tears when Carleton forces Navajo to remove east from NE Arizona to East Central NM to a reservation called Bosque Redondo. Many die in route. were told they could farm but couldn't. Many die and sl
Mescal
Pre Columbian Period
The Fort Sill Apache
The Long Walk
46. Speak Penution - live in northeastern CA and are supposed to be living with the Klamaths in Southern Oregon. They leave that reservation however and go to 'the lost river' splitting into two bands - Capt. Jack's and Curly Headed Doctor's - each band
Apache
Modocs
Archaic Period
Pawnee Noir
47. Culture of the desert tradition. 300 AD to 1300 AD. Largest and most elaborate culture. In the 4 corners region (UT - CO -NM - AZ). Log houses. Used corn similar to corn in the east. Baskets are stunning - tightly woven - beautifully decorated with c
General Nelson Miles
Caddos
Anasazi
Atapakans
48. Role models for Navajo children. Mother was Changing Woman: Hero Twins are Monster Slayer and Child of the Waters. have adventures that shaped the Navajo land and slayed many monsters but they missed old age - poverty - dirt
Athabascan
San Carlos - Geronimo
dendro chronology
The Hero Twins
49. Large cliff dwelling adobe houses in Colorado -dwellings were easy to defend -offered protection-provided a safe place for Anasazi - reached by ladders
Kiva
Mesa Verde
Athabascan
Bosque Redondo
50. The sky city - poses fiercest resistance to 1598 Don Juan Onate expedition - brutal invasion by Spanish into Mexico-City sat on hard to reach mesa - they throw boulders down on Spanish - hold out for a long time- finally conquered - severe retributio
Avunculate
Klamath
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Curly Headed Doctors