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American Indian History
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1. 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
The Spanish Fort
Pope'
Sir Frances Drake
2. Part of Spanish/Indian policy - large land grants are made to leading military figures - divides territories on Northern borders into land grants to encourage frontier expansion & reward those faithful to the crown
The Southern Cult
San Carlos - Geronimo
Carlton
Encomienda
3. 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
Cibola
Caddos
Hohokam
Franciscans
4. Arctic oriented language - Apache spoke this language - not related to Pueblos - probably the last group to come across - called themselves 'Dene' (the people) but others called them Apache which means stranger/enemy - those who shouldn't be there
Cibola
Captain Jack
Athabascan
Mesa Verde
5. 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
The Hero Twins
Avunculate
Carlton
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
6. 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
Mescal
Bosque Redondo
Curly Headed Doctors
Canyon de Chelley
7. 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
General George Crook
Mesa Verde
Modocs
Pawnee Noir
8. 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
Carlton
Mogollon
Robert Neighbors
The Long Walk
9. 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
Curly Headed Doctors
Pawnee Noir
The Hero Twins
Canyon de Chelley
10. Large cliff dwelling adobe houses in Colorado -dwellings were easy to defend -offered protection-provided a safe place for Anasazi - reached by ladders
The Long Walk
Caddos
Mesa Verde
Hohokam
11. Sport - played on ball courts. Very similar to basketball Played by hohokam culture.
Navajos
Juan Jose
pima or papago
Repartimiento
12. In Anasazi culture sunken chambers in their plazas for religious activity - for males only
The Long Walk
General Carlton
Kiva
Hubbell's Trading Post
13. 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'
Curly Headed Doctors
Carlton
General Nelson Miles
Mogollon
14. 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
Coahuiltecans
Sir Frances Drake
The Long Walk
Carlton
15. Any object transformed in anyway by humans - stone - wood - bone - arrowheads - campfires
Hohokam
Caddos
Mother-in-law Taboo
Artifact
16. Eastern Arizona headquarters of Navajo - live in Hogans - garden and hunt game - melons and peach orchards
Canyon de Chelley
Mangas Colorado
pima or papago
The Long Walk
17. A man never speaks to his mother-in-law and avoids contacts as much as can. communicates thru his wife
Canyon de Chelley
Tom Jeffreys
The Fort Sill Apache
Mother-in-law Taboo
18. 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
Navajos
Modocs
Pawnee Noir
Captain Jack
19. 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
Sororate
Pawnee Noir
Royal Whitman
dendro chronology
20. Spectacular place for defense - used by the modocs for defense and works very well
San Carlos - Geronimo
Kit Carson
Lava Beds
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
21. 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 George Crook
Anasazi
Cochise
Apache
22. 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
Caddoan
Mother-in-law Taboo
Navajos
23. Used by Apache - is made from cactus root. similar to a grits type substance used as a base for stews and cooking
Mescal
Pope'
Presidios
Caddos
24. 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
Caddos
Cibola
Kiva
Wichitas
25. 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
Pope'
Dodge Family
Klamath
26. Major language group (of caddos - pawnees - wichitas). A central plain language
Sororate
Mother-in-law Taboo
Caddoan
Klamath
27. 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
Mangas Colorado
The Fort Sill Apache
General Edward Camby
Bosque Redondo
28. 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
Encomienda
Artifact
Wichitas
Mangas Colorado
29. ...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
Hubbell's Trading Post
Cibola
Pueblos
30. 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
Tonkawas
Cibola
Mescal
Juan Jose
31. 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
Caddos
Mother-in-law Taboo
Cibola
Holy People
32. 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
Sororate
Caddoan
General Edward Camby
Tonkawas
33. 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.
Mangas Colorado
pima or papago
Dodge Family
Diggers
34. ...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
Modocs
General George Crook
Apache
35. 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
Royal Whitman
Encomienda
Bosque Redondo
General Edward Camby
36. 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.
Pueblos
Ranchitas
Avunculate
Bosque Redondo
37. ...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
The Hero Twins
Hohokam
Coahuiltecans
Anasazi
38. Religious practice of the Caddo Indians. Highly organized. Used burial mounds. Villages were centered around temples
Navajos
The Southern Cult
Franciscans
Artifact
39. 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
Mission System
The Long Walk
Karankawas
General Carlton
40. 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
Karankawas
Bosque Redondo
The Long Walk
Pawnee Noir
41. 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 Edward Camby
Archaic Period
Bosque Redondo
Ranchitas
42. 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
Anasazi
Pueblos
San Carlos - Geronimo
Mother-in-law Taboo
43. (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
Cibola
General Edward Camby
The Fort Sill Apache
Juan Jose
44. 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
Mission System
General Edward Camby
Robert Neighbors
The Hero Twins
45. Small forts associated with missions. Used by Spanish in the SW to protect these missions and were Spains defensive frontier
Presidios
Franciscans
Apache
Navajos
46. 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
Sororate
Karankawas
Pueblos
Cibola
47. 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
Apache
Archaic Period
The Long Walk
Kit Carson
48. 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
Royal Whitman
Cochise
General Edward Camby
Caddos
49. 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.
Royal Whitman
Pueblos
Hohokam
Diggers
50. 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.
Modocs
General Edward Camby
The Spanish Fort
Caddos