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American Indian History
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1. 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.
Cochise
Captain Jack
Pre Columbian Period
Wichitas
2. ...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
Kit Carson
Diggers
Hohokam
The Long Walk
3. 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
Artifact
dendro chronology
The Southern Cult
4. 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.
Dodge Family
Athabascan
Bosque Redondo
The Hero Twins
5. Major language group (of caddos - pawnees - wichitas). A central plain language
Juan Jose
General George Crook
Sir Frances Drake
Caddoan
6. 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
Holy People
Hohokam
Navajos
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
7. ...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
Bosque Redondo
Mescal
Mogollon
Kit Carson
8. 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
Coahuiltecans
Caddos
Encomienda
Artifact
9. 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
Kiva
San Carlos - Geronimo
Hohokam
The Long Walk
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.
Klamath
Bosque Redondo
The Long Walk
Anasazi
11. ...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
Canyon de Chelley
Hohokam
Skeleton Canyon
Pope'
12. 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
Sir Frances Drake
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Royal Whitman
Pueblos
13. 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
Archaic Period
Hohokam
Athabascan
The Fort Sill Apache
14. Apaches who originally lived in northern NM but moved to NE Arizona to protect their herds. Occupy desert SW - farm and are sedentary
Curly Headed Doctors
Hubbell's Trading Post
Navajos
Presidios
15. 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
Caddos
dendro chronology
Mission System
Sororate
16. 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
Sororate
Mission System
Sir Frances Drake
Cibola
17. 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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18. 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
Tonto Apache
Apache
Ranchitas
dendro chronology
19. 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
Athabascan
Dodge Family
Bosque Redondo
20. 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'
Mangas Colorado
The Long Walk
Karankawas
Holy People
21. 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
Modocs
The Hero Twins
Repartimiento
pima or papago
22. 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
Apache
General Carlton
Skeleton Canyon
Pueblos
23. 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
Mogollon
Diggers
Wichitas
Anasazi
24. In Anasazi culture sunken chambers in their plazas for religious activity - for males only
Caddos
Modocs
General Carlton
Kiva
25. 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
Archaic Period
The Long Walk
Coahuiltecans
26. 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
Mescal
Apache
Bosque Redondo
Caddos
27. 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
Klamath
Cochise
San Carlos - Geronimo
Encomienda
28. 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
Modocs
Encomienda
Apache
Bosque Redondo
29. 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'
Tom Jeffreys
Klamath
Carlton
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
30. Any object transformed in anyway by humans - stone - wood - bone - arrowheads - campfires
Kiva
Artifact
Bosque Redondo
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
31. Religious practice of the Caddo Indians. Highly organized. Used burial mounds. Villages were centered around temples
Repartimiento
General Edward Camby
The Southern Cult
Coahuiltecans
32. No hero to the navajos bc they see him as someone who cut down their peach orchards and hurt their homes
Carlton
Kit Carson
The Long Walk
Tonkawas
33. 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
Bosque Redondo
Caddoan
Tonkawas
The Fort Sill Apache
34. 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
General Nelson Miles
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Anasazi
Bosque Redondo
35. Small forts associated with missions. Used by Spanish in the SW to protect these missions and were Spains defensive frontier
Royal Whitman
Encomienda
The Fort Sill Apache
Presidios
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
Modocs
Caddos
Juan Jose
Captain Jack
37. 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
Curly Headed Doctors
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
General George Crook
San Carlos - Geronimo
38. 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
Encomienda
Diggers
Pope'
39. 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
Tonkawas
Pueblos
Tom Jeffreys
40. 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
General Nelson Miles
Carlton
Skeleton Canyon
Coahuiltecans
41. 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
Skeleton Canyon
Encomienda
Coahuiltecans
Diggers
42. 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
Robert Neighbors
Curly Headed Doctors
Tom Jeffreys
Mangas Colorado
43. A man never speaks to his mother-in-law and avoids contacts as much as can. communicates thru his wife
Mangas Colorado
Apache
Klamath
Mother-in-law Taboo
44. 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
San Carlos - Geronimo
Franciscans
Diggers
45. 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
Mogollon
Royal Whitman
Bosque Redondo
Avunculate
46. 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
Holy People
dendro chronology
Atapakans
47. 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
Hohokam
Artifact
Cochise
Archaic Period
48. 8 -000 bc to ? In the Americas - name for hunter gatherer societies of that time - nomadic groups follow what can be found seasonally
Pueblos
Kit Carson
Archaic Period
Royal Whitman
49. The dating of wooden artifacts through tree ring growth
Atapakans
The Fort Sill Apache
Bosque Redondo
dendro chronology
50. Used by Apache - is made from cactus root. similar to a grits type substance used as a base for stews and cooking
Diggers
Avunculate
Mescal
Sororate