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American Indian History
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1. 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
Mescal
Bosque Redondo
Hubbell's Trading Post
Archaic Period
2. 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.
Mangas Colorado
Captain Jack
Pope'
Canyon de Chelley
3. 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
Mission System
Hubbell's Trading Post
Franciscans
Mescal
4. 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
Lava Beds
Diggers
Bosque Redondo
Apache
5. 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.
Royal Whitman
Avunculate
Kiva
Navajos
6. 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
Pre Columbian Period
Atapakans
Royal Whitman
Dodge Family
7. 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
Bosque Redondo
Wichitas
Curly Headed Doctors
General Carlton
8. Large cliff dwelling adobe houses in Colorado -dwellings were easy to defend -offered protection-provided a safe place for Anasazi - reached by ladders
Royal Whitman
Mesa Verde
Kiva
General Edward Camby
9. 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
Juan Jose
Coahuiltecans
Pope'
Caddos
10. 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
Navajos
The Southern Cult
Captain Jack
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
Kit Carson
Skeleton Canyon
The Fort Sill Apache
Mescal
12. 8 -000 bc to ? In the Americas - name for hunter gatherer societies of that time - nomadic groups follow what can be found seasonally
Robert Neighbors
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
General Nelson Miles
Archaic Period
13. The dating of wooden artifacts through tree ring growth
dendro chronology
Mescal
Dodge Family
Pueblos
14. 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
The Long Walk
Tonkawas
Robert Neighbors
Bosque Redondo
15. In Anasazi culture sunken chambers in their plazas for religious activity - for males only
Encomienda
Hohokam
Juan Jose
Kiva
16. 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
Diggers
Presidios
The Long Walk
Hohokam
17. Spectacular place for defense - used by the modocs for defense and works very well
Ranchitas
Lava Beds
Mesa Verde
The Southern Cult
18. 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
Apache
Modocs
Atapakans
19. ...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
Hohokam
Mission System
Juan Jose
Dodge Family
20. 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
Dodge Family
Holy People
Apache
The Fort Sill Apache
21. 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.
Pawnee Noir
Cibola
Kiva
Dodge Family
22. 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 Southern Cult
Ranchitas
Mangas Colorado
Klamath
23. 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
Presidios
dendro chronology
General George Crook
Avunculate
24. 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'
Caddos
Bosque Redondo
Karankawas
The Southern Cult
25. Apaches who originally lived in northern NM but moved to NE Arizona to protect their herds. Occupy desert SW - farm and are sedentary
Hohokam
Navajos
Artifact
Bosque Redondo
26. Eastern Arizona headquarters of Navajo - live in Hogans - garden and hunt game - melons and peach orchards
Canyon de Chelley
Lava Beds
Tom Jeffreys
Apache
27. 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
The Long Walk
Pawnee Noir
The Hero Twins
Sororate
28. 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
Sororate
Atapakans
General Edward Camby
San Carlos - Geronimo
29. 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
Archaic Period
Pawnee Noir
Dodge Family
The Long Walk
30. 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
Modocs
Canyon de Chelley
Anasazi
Robert Neighbors
31. 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
The Long Walk
Tonto Apache
Captain Jack
Royal Whitman
32. 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
Coahuiltecans
Dodge Family
Robert Neighbors
33. 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
General Edward Camby
General Carlton
Pre Columbian Period
34. 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
Coahuiltecans
Sororate
Apache
35. 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 Edward Camby
Anasazi
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
The Hero Twins
36. 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
Presidios
Kiva
Holy People
General Edward Camby
37. 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
Modocs
General Nelson Miles
Mission System
Wichitas
38. 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
Ranchitas
Mother-in-law Taboo
Cochise
Modocs
39. 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
Avunculate
Carlton
Athabascan
Artifact
40. 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
Acoma-Don Juan Onate
Ranchitas
The Hero Twins
The Long Walk
41. 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 Hero Twins
Juan Jose
Encomienda
pima or papago
42. A man never speaks to his mother-in-law and avoids contacts as much as can. communicates thru his wife
Mother-in-law Taboo
Pre Columbian Period
Coahuiltecans
General Carlton
43. 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
Captain Jack
Mangas Colorado
Hohokam
Skeleton Canyon
44. Used by Apache - is made from cactus root. similar to a grits type substance used as a base for stews and cooking
Ranchitas
Mother-in-law Taboo
Tonkawas
Mescal
45. 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
Hohokam
The Southern Cult
Diggers
46. 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
Dodge Family
The Southern Cult
Cibola
Klamath
47. 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.
Captain Jack
Kiva
The Long Walk
Mangas Colorado
48. 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
Lava Beds
Caddos
Tonto Apache
Cochise
49. Religious practice of the Caddo Indians. Highly organized. Used burial mounds. Villages were centered around temples
The Southern Cult
Coahuiltecans
Juan Jose
Mangas Colorado
50. (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
Mescal
Avunculate
dendro chronology
The Fort Sill Apache