Native American History, 10/05/2009

Native American History, 10/05/2009

1. What do founding documents tell us?
2. comparative conquest
3. Christianity/conversion 
4. confederacy: threat? & native strength
5. the French had to be careful, they are outnumbered, they created alliances & a middle ground.
6. inter-tribal conflict 
7. Education: assimilation strategies, literacy
8. paternalism: civilizing mission
9. hunter/gatherer society had to be abolished
10. natives needed to adopt agriculture

Trade
1. completely different way of interacting
2. Exploration: economics or imperial conquest

Problematic factors
1. land: caused strife between white settlers and natives
2. disease: a large portion of the native populations were wiped out by disease

Diseased blankets
was it a deliberate infection on behalf of the settlers

Why do the Spanish need guns?
1. gathering native wealth
2. missionizing
3. exploiting the wealth of the land

Colonization
1. There is forced labor in place
2. Pueblo revolt: removal of all Catholic iconography 
3. Pueblos destroyed the government documents
4. natives wanted their original order, followed particular rules & resisting assimilation efforts. 
5. they were trying to represent colonial power
6. they wanted to undermine the Spanish bureaucracy
7. marriage, births, land: records

Ansel Adams, c. 1941, Acoma Pueblo
1. nomads couldn’t be controlled as easily as agriculturalists
2. Juan de Onate statue by Reynaldo Rivera, 1991, located in New Mexico near Espanola


Timeline
1. 1595: letter
2. 1598: Onate arrives
3. 1599: Acoma Uprising
4. 1680: Pueblo Revolt

Line?
1. separation: reserve
2. Indian country
3. temporary line
4. a limited recognition of sovereignty occurs
5. boundary changes over 19th century
6. Indians have relationships with the federal government

Tribal people
1. not in a hierarchy 
2. no centralized authority