Colonial Colonization Flashcards
Native American rituals and ceremonies frequently refer to and/or reenact
Myths
In NA, culture myths play the role of
Articulating religious experience and organizing ethical, moral, and social behavior
Myths also have an
Educational function
Myths might be best understood as resembling
Dramatic performances
The performance of oral literature can be expected to vary with the
Narrator, audience, setting, and time period
The Eskimo creation account mostly likely came from the
Bering Strait
The heart of her Bering Sea Eskimo Life and culture was
Spiritual transformation with his maker, Raven
Man needed to deal respectfully with
Animals and objects so as not to displease their inuas
What’s the story of The Time There Was No People on the Earth plain?
Man comes up from the pea pod, drank some water because of his stomach, raven comes up in the form of a man, and tells him to go to the high ground, gave him some berries, used clay to form mountain sheep, man cries out for pleasure, put on the high cliffs, so the mountain sheep couldn’t be found or killed, tame reindeer scare, wild reindeer plentiful, and raven gave man a companion women, raven continues for several days teaching them about the animals
Seneca belonged to the
Iroquois confederacy
The Story telling Stone
Payeshaon grew up to be a hunter and returned the birds to his mother, then a stone talks to him and tells him stories at the cost of his birds, women wonders why he doesn’t come with so many birds, advisor comes and hears the stories with Poyeshaon, two more come, and then whole village. Finish stories, tell the among generations, Seneca- people of the stone
Skraeling means
Savage or barbarians
What did Throvland want to call this new land?
Kjalarness
The savages then started shooting at them after they fall asleep, and
Throvland gets shot and land to be called Krossaness
The best known eyewitness of the expedition is made by
Bernal Díaz
Motezuma was both
Astonished and terrified by their report, and the description of food astonished them
What was their description of a cannon?
A ball of stone comes out of its entrails, it comes out with sparks and raining fire
Their dogs are …
Enormous with flat ears and long tongues. The color of their eyes was a burning yellow
The Aztecs were conquered by
Despair
What was the point of firing the cannon?
To show how powerful they were
In order that they should see the shot, Cortés pretended that he
Wished to speak to them and some other chiefs again, just before the cannon was fired
Why did then want to see the helmet?
So they could put on the head of their god Huichilobos
Tendile was the most
Active of Motezuma’s servants. Cortés belongings astonished him
What is the Book of Chilam Balan of Chumayel?
It says there was once no sin, and once the Europeans arrived, and at their death, everything shall be revealed
Who was Doña Maria?
She was the translator who proved invaluable to the conquerers. She also said that Cortès might be their returning God Quetzalcoatl.
What was the plan for the Spanish’s enemies?
That the Mexicans and Cholulans would attack the Spanish that night, and none should be left alive except those taken blind to Mexico.
For now, as you see, the Spaniards (demons)
Are on the watch, and would hear us
The captain ordered the old women to be
Brought before them, questioned her about these acts of treason, and she told the same exact story as the papas. She could then not escape
Giovanni de Verrazono met with the
Wampanoags
Once the Indians saw the dazzling items of the Europeans,
They let out a loud cry in which to show they were joyful, we threw little trinkets, who they laughed at, and cane on board ship
The Native Americans, according to Verrazono, were the
Most beautiful and have the most civil customs, they are bronze color, their eyes are black and alert. The women were shapely and beautiful, their customs and behavior followed womanly custom as far as befits human nature
What are the colors that the Indians worship?
Red and blue, and vote gold as one of the most worthless, they prized copper, and were most iterated in little bells, blue crystals, and to put around the ear and neck
The Indians did not posses any of the
True metals, steel and iron, they merely examined the workmanship
They are very generous
For what they have and made Great friends with them. They painted their faces as a sign of happiness and brought us some of their food
After Estevan has left the friars, he
Tried to get all the fame and reputation himself, for if he discovered those famous settlements, he would be considered bold and courageous
But the people in the country were much more intelligent than
The ones following Extevan
For three days, Estevan was questioned and how did it turn out?
Estevan started talking how he was sent by a great lord, who knew about the things in the sky, and how they were coming to instruct him in a divine manner made them think he must be a spy from a nation who wished to conquer them, they thought it was unreasonable to say that his people were white, he being black
They thought it was tough for Estevan to ask him for turquoises and women, so they
Decided to kill him
The friars were told about the sad news and, they
Were so frightened that they would not trust even the people who went with him
They returned from here by double
Marches, without seeing anymore of the country except what the Indians told them
A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia is the
First published book about A Erica written in English, by and English eyewitness
When we left the town,the people began
To die very fast and many in a short space
The Indians were persuaded that their deaths were
The result of Our God that we will kill them who were defenseless
The Indians could not tell if they were
Gods or men
What were the invisible bullets?
Supposedly invisible marks that the English used to kill the Indians for God. (Disease)
The first information of Christopher Columbus’s voyages come from
Bartolome de Las Casas
The second voyage proved
Economically disastrous as there was no food or silver
What was supposedly on the top of the pear shaped earth?
The Garden of Eden
The Indians were a people who could better be
Freed and converted to the Holy Faith by love than by force.
The Indians traded everything they had with
Good will, but these people were poor in everything.
The Indians cut themselves through
Ignorance
They believed they would easily become Christians as they seemed
To belong to no religion
What is the important with (wonderfully made)?
They were wonderfully made because they could stick in one piece, as the Indians inability to stick in one piece proves to be on of their greatest weaknesses
Why were the Indians giving thanks to God?
They brought the Europeans goods, and it seemed they had come from the sky
What was the reception of the voyages by the people of the Canary Islands?
They were firing cannons of joy,
Why was the first called Santo Domingo?
Because it was discovered on The Lord’s Day
The second island was named
Santa Maria la Gallante, out of love for his ship
The men were unable to find their way in the woods because
The forests were so thick
The 200 men returned with great difficultly and
The men were assumed dead. Fire was found, and old lays shows way back with gestures
The genital member was cut off to their belly because
To keep them from mixing with their women it at least to fatten them up and then eat them
The island of the cannibals was called
Santa Maria di Guadolope.
