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1. 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.
Wichitas
The Southern Cult
Klamath
General Carlton
2. 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
Bosque Redondo
Wichitas
Repartimiento
The Fort Sill Apache
3. Used by Apache - is made from cactus root. similar to a grits type substance used as a base for stews and cooking
Bosque Redondo
Pawnee Noir
Mescal
Mission System
4. A man never speaks to his mother-in-law and avoids contacts as much as can. communicates thru his wife
General Nelson Miles
Repartimiento
Mother-in-law Taboo
Canyon de Chelley
5. 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
pima or papago
Canyon de Chelley
The Long Walk
6. 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
Ranchitas
Encomienda
Mother-in-law Taboo
7. 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
Cochise
Juan Jose
Ranchitas
8. 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
General Nelson Miles
Captain Jack
dendro chronology
Athabascan
9. 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
Captain Jack
Presidios
Klamath
Robert Neighbors
10. Any object transformed in anyway by humans - stone - wood - bone - arrowheads - campfires
Pre Columbian Period
Pawnee Noir
Artifact
General Carlton
11. 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
The Hero Twins
Repartimiento
Athabascan
Wichitas
12. 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
Canyon de Chelley
Repartimiento
Encomienda
Curly Headed Doctors
13. 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
Mogollon
Bosque Redondo
Atapakans
Modocs
14. 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
Caddos
Modocs
General Carlton
Mangas Colorado
15. Religious practice of the Caddo Indians. Highly organized. Used burial mounds. Villages were centered around temples
Sororate
pima or papago
The Southern Cult
Mangas Colorado
16. Sport - played on ball courts. Very similar to basketball Played by hohokam culture.
Bosque Redondo
Ranchitas
pima or papago
The Hero Twins
17. 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
Coahuiltecans
Holy People
Mescal
18. 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
Wichitas
Caddos
Juan Jose
Coahuiltecans
19. Large cliff dwelling adobe houses in Colorado -dwellings were easy to defend -offered protection-provided a safe place for Anasazi - reached by ladders
Mesa Verde
Captain Jack
The Spanish Fort
Anasazi
20. 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
Tonkawas
Kit Carson
Royal Whitman
Mesa Verde
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
The Long Walk
Avunculate
Curly Headed Doctors
Cibola
22. 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
Repartimiento
Mogollon
Franciscans
Sir Frances Drake
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
The Long Walk
Tom Jeffreys
Skeleton Canyon
Encomienda
24. 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
Tonto Apache
Mescal
General Carlton
The Spanish Fort
25. 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
General Carlton
Mesa Verde
Holy People
The Fort Sill Apache
26. 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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27. The dating of wooden artifacts through tree ring growth
dendro chronology
The Spanish Fort
Archaic Period
Athabascan
28. Small forts associated with missions. Used by Spanish in the SW to protect these missions and were Spains defensive frontier
Presidios
Mescal
Lava Beds
Navajos
29. 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
Caddoan
Tonkawas
Atapakans
The Hero Twins
30. 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.
Atapakans
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Archaic Period
Avunculate
31. Spectacular place for defense - used by the modocs for defense and works very well
Lava Beds
Pope'
Karankawas
Pueblos
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.
Cochise
Dodge Family
Avunculate
Modocs
33. 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.
The Long Walk
Repartimiento
General George Crook
Mother-in-law Taboo
34. 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
Atapakans
Bosque Redondo
Mescal
35. 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
Tonto Apache
Pre Columbian Period
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Franciscans
36. Eastern Arizona headquarters of Navajo - live in Hogans - garden and hunt game - melons and peach orchards
General Nelson Miles
Bosque Redondo
Canyon de Chelley
Skeleton Canyon
37. 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
Athabascan
Apache
Archaic Period
Anasazi
38. 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
Diggers
Royal Whitman
Lava Beds
39. 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.
dendro chronology
Diggers
The Spanish Fort
General Edward Camby
40. 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
Dodge Family
Tonkawas
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Archaic Period
41. 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
Canyon de Chelley
Tonkawas
Mogollon
Cochise
42. No hero to the navajos bc they see him as someone who cut down their peach orchards and hurt their homes
The Spanish Fort
Skeleton Canyon
Kit Carson
Hohokam
43. 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.
General Nelson Miles
Captain Jack
Juan Jose
Tom Jeffreys
44. (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
Bosque Redondo
Artifact
The Fort Sill Apache
Bosque Redondo
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
Bosque Redondo
Artifact
General George Crook
Navajos
46. 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
The Long Walk
Tonto Apache
47. ...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
Mesa Verde
Hohokam
Mescal
The Spanish Fort
48. 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
Juan Jose
Diggers
The Southern Cult
Sororate
49. 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
Mother-in-law Taboo
Diggers
San Carlos - Geronimo
Apache
50. 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
Skeleton Canyon
Bosque Redondo
dendro chronology
Archaic Period
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