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American Indian History
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1. 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
Repartimiento
Caddos
General George Crook
Pope'
2. 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
Franciscans
Diggers
Tonto Apache
Artifact
3. 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
Modocs
Cibola
The Hero Twins
Klamath
4. 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.
The Long Walk
Pueblos
Coahuiltecans
Carlton
5. 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
Sir Frances Drake
General Nelson Miles
Royal Whitman
Anasazi
6. 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.
Ranchitas
Presidios
Juan Jose
Avunculate
7. 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
Mogollon
Avunculate
Pope'
The Long Walk
8. Joined by Kit Carson - campaigns against Apaches and Navajos - Civil War era- he pushes the confederates out of Arizona? and doesn't have anything else to do
Caddos
Tonto Apache
General Carlton
Carlton
9. 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.
Repartimiento
Hubbell's Trading Post
The Long Walk
Tonkawas
10. 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
Mescal
The Spanish Fort
The Long Walk
11. Small forts associated with missions. Used by Spanish in the SW to protect these missions and were Spains defensive frontier
Presidios
The Long Walk
Skeleton Canyon
Ranchitas
12. 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
Hubbell's Trading Post
The Long Walk
The Long Walk
13. 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.
General George Crook
Dodge Family
Hubbell's Trading Post
Cochise
14. 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
Ranchitas
Caddos
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Kit Carson
15. 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
Encomienda
Archaic Period
The Hero Twins
Artifact
16. 8 -000 bc to ? In the Americas - name for hunter gatherer societies of that time - nomadic groups follow what can be found seasonally
Mescal
Archaic Period
Kit Carson
Pope'
17. Religious practice of the Caddo Indians. Highly organized. Used burial mounds. Villages were centered around temples
Repartimiento
The Fort Sill Apache
The Southern Cult
Presidios
18. ...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
Canyon de Chelley
Encomienda
Caddos
Mogollon
19. 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
Sororate
Tom Jeffreys
Kiva
Franciscans
20. Campaign against the Navajos destroying sheep herds and homes. Many Navajos surrendered and thousands relocated to Bosque reservation in NM at Fort Sumner to protect NM ppl from raids. Confined to barren land encountered malnutrition - disease - bad
Kit Carson
Atapakans
Bosque Redondo
General Carlton
21. ...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
Pope'
Caddos
Hohokam
Cibola
22. A man never speaks to his mother-in-law and avoids contacts as much as can. communicates thru his wife
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Kit Carson
Mother-in-law Taboo
Skeleton Canyon
23. Indian people living in 'the golden triangle' area of Texas which was very swampy and not desired by the Spanish so they were left alone. Anglos described them as dirty and greasy. They consumed fish - turtles - seafood - did not farm. Faded away
Kiva
Atapakans
Mescal
Robert Neighbors
24. No hero to the navajos bc they see him as someone who cut down their peach orchards and hurt their homes
Lava Beds
Kit Carson
Pawnee Noir
Repartimiento
25. Major language group (of caddos - pawnees - wichitas). A central plain language
Skeleton Canyon
General Carlton
dendro chronology
Caddoan
26. Supernatural beings who shape the navajo universe - they can help you or hurt you - have to keep on their good side. Leading Holy person-Changing Woman: impregnated by the sun and bears twin boys: The Hero Twins
Cochise
Bosque Redondo
Holy People
Anasazi
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
Curly Headed Doctors
Carlton
The Long Walk
Archaic Period
28. Eastern Arizona headquarters of Navajo - live in Hogans - garden and hunt game - melons and peach orchards
Juan Jose
Bosque Redondo
Mesa Verde
Canyon de Chelley
29. In Anasazi culture sunken chambers in their plazas for religious activity - for males only
The Long Walk
Kiva
Sir Frances Drake
Wichitas
30. 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
Robert Neighbors
Royal Whitman
Mission System
Cochise
31. 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.
Mescal
Mogollon
Cibola
Captain Jack
32. 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
General Edward Camby
Ranchitas
Bosque Redondo
Modocs
33. Athabascan speaking people who called themselves 'Dene' for the people but others called them Apache - stranger/enemy. Were nomadic. were hard to conquer because they were on the move all the time - followed the herds and the seasons
Apache
Juan Jose
General Nelson Miles
Archaic Period
34. When settlers moved west across Nevada - Southern Utah - Eastern Colorado - California they encounter the archaic and call them 'diggers' because their culture would dig roots - eat bugs & this did not appeal to the settlers
The Southern Cult
The Hero Twins
Diggers
Canyon de Chelley
35. 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
Caddoan
Navajos
Carlton
Anasazi
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.
The Long Walk
Repartimiento
Caddoan
Klamath
37. Reservation close to Carswell NM - Navajo removed here on The Long Walk in 1864. Have no houses or supplies so many die or slip away back to Arizona. Finally after two years - gov't appoints A.B. Norton who sees the conditions - writes Washington - g
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Cibola
Atapakans
Bosque Redondo
38. 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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39. (apache means stranger/enemy but they called themselves 'Dene' for 'the people') Geronimo and his followers become known as this after leaving Florida & being sent to Ft. Sill - OK/ Geronimo dies in early 1900s and after that part of his band stays i
Juan Jose
Curly Headed Doctors
The Fort Sill Apache
Caddoan
40. ...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
Kiva
Anasazi
Caddoan
Skeleton Canyon
41. The dating of wooden artifacts through tree ring growth
Tonkawas
Captain Jack
dendro chronology
Repartimiento
42. Large cliff dwelling adobe houses in Colorado -dwellings were easy to defend -offered protection-provided a safe place for Anasazi - reached by ladders
Bosque Redondo
The Fort Sill Apache
Mesa Verde
Robert Neighbors
43. 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
pima or papago
Kiva
Cochise
General Carlton
44. 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
Juan Jose
Repartimiento
San Carlos - Geronimo
45. 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.
Pre Columbian Period
Royal Whitman
The Spanish Fort
Robert Neighbors
46. Sport - played on ball courts. Very similar to basketball Played by hohokam culture.
The Spanish Fort
Cochise
pima or papago
Anasazi
47. A time before European influence in the Americas/20 -000 years or more/ american sw desert very dry and artifacts last indefinitely so there is an abundance
Pope'
Ranchitas
Pre Columbian Period
Pawnee Noir
48. 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
Pawnee Noir
Tonto Apache
San Carlos - Geronimo
Avunculate
49. See Tonto Apache- Was away in 1870 when citizens of Tucson attack the village and kill the apaches in The Camp Grant Massacre. Whitman marches back arriving too late - makes arrests of ring leaders - after 5 day trial - they were all exonerated. Whit
Mission System
Archaic Period
Royal Whitman
Lava Beds
50. A man marrying more than one woman almost always sisters - strengthens matrilocality. More for economic reasons than romance as women headed clans until after WWII
General Nelson Miles
Skeleton Canyon
Sororate
Karankawas