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American Indian History
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1. 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
Captain Jack
Bosque Redondo
Caddos
Encomienda
2. 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
Pre Columbian Period
Skeleton Canyon
Cibola
Bosque Redondo
3. Part of Spanish/Indian policy - a system of labor put upon Indians already living on land made into encomiendas. Work a day or two a week for the landowner & he was obligated to protect you - developed a feudal system
Repartimiento
Avunculate
pima or papago
Bosque Redondo
4. Spectacular place for defense - used by the modocs for defense and works very well
The Fort Sill Apache
Juan Jose
Lava Beds
Captain Jack
5. 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
Avunculate
Karankawas
Mother-in-law Taboo
6. 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'
Bosque Redondo
Karankawas
Mission System
Encomienda
7. 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.
Juan Jose
Dodge Family
Cibola
Mescal
8. 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
Royal Whitman
Mission System
Pope'
Tonkawas
9. Any object transformed in anyway by humans - stone - wood - bone - arrowheads - campfires
General Carlton
Kit Carson
Robert Neighbors
Artifact
10. Large cliff dwelling adobe houses in Colorado -dwellings were easy to defend -offered protection-provided a safe place for Anasazi - reached by ladders
General George Crook
Pueblos
Mesa Verde
Carlton
11. 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
Caddoan
Lava Beds
San Carlos - Geronimo
Karankawas
12. 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
Ranchitas
Cochise
Coahuiltecans
The Southern Cult
13. Sport - played on ball courts. Very similar to basketball Played by hohokam culture.
Apache
Dodge Family
pima or papago
Navajos
14. Used by Apache - is made from cactus root. similar to a grits type substance used as a base for stews and cooking
The Long Walk
Avunculate
Mescal
Anasazi
15. A man never speaks to his mother-in-law and avoids contacts as much as can. communicates thru his wife
Pawnee Noir
Sororate
dendro chronology
Mother-in-law Taboo
16. 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
General Carlton
Encomienda
Avunculate
Artifact
17. 8 -000 bc to ? In the Americas - name for hunter gatherer societies of that time - nomadic groups follow what can be found seasonally
Sororate
Avunculate
Bosque Redondo
Archaic Period
18. Religious practice of the Caddo Indians. Highly organized. Used burial mounds. Villages were centered around temples
Atapakans
The Southern Cult
Presidios
Royal Whitman
19. Eastern Arizona headquarters of Navajo - live in Hogans - garden and hunt game - melons and peach orchards
Klamath
Atapakans
Archaic Period
Canyon de Chelley
20. 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
Artifact
Pope'
Robert Neighbors
Bosque Redondo
21. 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
dendro chronology
Athabascan
Mescal
pima or papago
22. 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
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Dodge Family
Tom Jeffreys
Encomienda
23. Major language group (of caddos - pawnees - wichitas). A central plain language
Apache
Caddoan
Pueblos
Klamath
24. No hero to the navajos bc they see him as someone who cut down their peach orchards and hurt their homes
Tonto Apache
Caddos
Kit Carson
The Hero Twins
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
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Hohokam
Franciscans
Caddos
26. 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
San Carlos - Geronimo
Sororate
Ranchitas
Sir Frances Drake
27. 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
Cibola
Cochise
Royal Whitman
Athabascan
28. 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
pima or papago
Ranchitas
Kit Carson
Archaic Period
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
Hubbell's Trading Post
The Fort Sill Apache
San Carlos - Geronimo
Skeleton Canyon
30. 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
Avunculate
Diggers
Franciscans
General George Crook
31. Apaches who originally lived in northern NM but moved to NE Arizona to protect their herds. Occupy desert SW - farm and are sedentary
Caddoan
Navajos
Artifact
Tonto Apache
32. 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
Mangas Colorado
The Southern Cult
General Carlton
33. 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.
Tonkawas
Carlton
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Pueblos
34. 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
The Long Walk
Cibola
Sir Frances Drake
35. 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
Bosque Redondo
San Carlos - Geronimo
Royal Whitman
Dodge Family
36. 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
Juan Jose
Hohokam
The Long Walk
Kiva
37. 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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38. 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
Cochise
Bosque Redondo
General Carlton
General George Crook
39. 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
Pawnee Noir
Caddoan
Atapakans
Klamath
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
Caddoan
Archaic Period
Cibola
Bosque Redondo
41. 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
Klamath
San Carlos - Geronimo
Mangas Colorado
Karankawas
42. 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.
The Spanish Fort
Juan Jose
Mother-in-law Taboo
Robert Neighbors
43. Small forts associated with missions. Used by Spanish in the SW to protect these missions and were Spains defensive frontier
Pawnee Noir
Presidios
Anasazi
Karankawas
44. 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
Sororate
Encomienda
General Carlton
Apache
45. 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
Atapakans
General George Crook
Captain Jack
Tonto Apache
46. 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'
Carlton
Pre Columbian Period
Athabascan
Mogollon
47. 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
Royal Whitman
Caddos
Avunculate
Canyon de Chelley
48. 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
Klamath
Tonto Apache
Tonkawas
Diggers
49. In Anasazi culture sunken chambers in their plazas for religious activity - for males only
Canyon de Chelley
Kiva
The Fort Sill Apache
The Hero Twins
50. 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
Pope'
Hohokam
The Long Walk
The Hero Twins