Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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Skeleton found. was revealed bone sample was 9200 to 9500 years old. Natives claim it to be Umatilla. A long history of “scientific” results is used to justify colonization. Outcome: In 2016, Kennewick Man was reburied by a coalition of tribes.

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Kennewick Man

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2
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People use origin stories to understand contemporary concerns. The illness became a
teaching tool for Navajo elders and singers.

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Navajo emergence story

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3
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5,300 villages, 60-mile radius, production, and distribution. Not discreet, but rather interconnected communities. the focus of trade in which turquoise was exchanged for goods
from as far away as Mexico, California, and the Rocky Mountains.

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Chaco Canyon

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4
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Founded around 700 A.D., was a thriving urban market center around Missouri, Mississippi, and Illinois rivers for about 700 years. At its height, it had between 10,000 to 30,000 and was the largest settlement north of the Rio Grande before the end of the 18th C., and trade routes linked it to distant regions of the continent.

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Cahokia

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5
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Confederation of six Indian tribes was made during the French and Indian War.

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Iroquois Confederacy

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The exchange of goods, diseases, technology, slaves, and ideas from Europe to America.

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Columbian Exchange

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7
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was one of the most effective Indian resistance movements in American history.

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Pueblo Revolt

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8
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a medicine man from San Juan Pueblo who had been publicly flogged and fled, with masterminding the revolt.

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Popé

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9
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introduction of buffalo and horses made transportation and trade easier.

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Buffalo-Horse Complex

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10
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provided information about the rebellion after Spanish priests absolved him and had him swear an oath to tell the truth.

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Juan of Tesuque

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11
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male, female, and sometimes intersexed individuals who combined activities of both men and women with traits unique to their status as two-spirit people.

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Two-Spirit People

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12
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criticized Huron sexual practices, gender relations, child-rearing, and festivals.

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Jesuit “black robes”

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13
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A Puritan army broke Pequot resistance in a surprise attack on their main village in 1637. Surrounding the palisaded village, the soldiers put the Pequots’ lodges to the torch and shot or cut down the people who tried to escape. Hundreds died in the ensuing slaughter.

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Pequot Massacre

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14
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Iroquois attacked the Huron people and their neighbors who lived in the Great Lakes region and raided as far afield as Quebec, New England, and the Carolinas. The Hurons were still reeling from the impact of a series of epidemic diseases, and the Iroquois assault in 1649 dispersed and destroyed their confederacy. Survivors dispersed to build new communities in Quebec and Ohio.39 Other tribes in the Ohio valley and Great Lakes area waged recurrent warfare in contests for guns, goods, and furs.

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Beaver Wars

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15
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symbolically linked the Iroquois and their allies.

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Covenant Chain

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16
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the war between Indians and the English led by King Philip due to the Puritans encroaching on Wampanoag land. (1675-1676)

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King Philip’s War

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17
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known as King Philip, led the rebellion/ war against the English.

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Metacomet

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18
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the war between French and British from 1756-63 on Native American lands, as Natives were forced into this conflict.

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French and Indian War

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19
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A Shawnee chief during the American Revolution who argued against war but led his warriors at the Battle of Point Pleasant at the junction of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers in present-day West Virginia.

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Chief Cornstalk

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20
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A Mohawk war chief who supported the British during the war due to missionaries and fought for the crown during the revolution.

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Joseph Brant

21
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Sister to Joseph Brant, she had a considerable presence in the British Iroquois diplomacy and had influence far better than chiefs over her people.

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Molly Brant

22
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An Ottawa chief who unified tribes in the Great Lakes and Ohio valley regions to rebel against the growing British presence.

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Pontiac

23
Q

A Delaware prophet who gave spiritual force to Indian discontent and headed a movement in the 1760s, which helped fuel Pontiac’s War.

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Neolin

24
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established the Appalachians as the boundary line between Indian and colonial lands and
stipulated “that no private Person do presume to make any Purchase from the said Indians”

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Royal Proclamation of 1763

25
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a treaty in 1786 that graphically illustrates the contrast between the old and new ways of conducting diplomacy in Indian country and ceded parts of Ohio to America.

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Treaty at Fort Finney

26
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a treaty made in 1795 that had created a boundary between Indian and American territory while ceding huge tracts of Indian land in present-day Ohio and Indiana.

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Treaty of Greenville

27
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a white woman who was captured by Shawnees and adopted by the Seneca at about age fifteen in 1758.

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Mary Jemison

28
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governor of the Indiana territory who had built his career advancing Jefferson’s policies of national expansion and Indian dispossession. In 1811, he led an army in a preemptive strike
against the Prophet’s village at Tippecanoe while Tecumseh was away in the South.

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William Henry Harrison

29
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burnt down his house rather than give up his land and in 1765, he becomes a symbol of resistance.

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Chief Tammany/Tammenend

30
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A Shawnee who gave the strongest direction to the developing movement of Indian unity.

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Tecumseh

31
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A Shawnee prophet who first lived an early life of drunkenness, but into a trance and preached that the Master of Life has chosen him to spread a new religion among Indians. His teaching’s promised the revitalization of Shawnee culture.

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Tenskwatawa

32
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A Shawnee chief who had encouraged his tribe to adapt to the new ways of life did not live to see it.

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Black Hoof

33
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Only licensed traders were permitted to operate in the Indian country, and no transfers of Indian land were valid without congressional approval.

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Indian Trade and Intercourse Act, 1790

34
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the American agent at Fort Pitt.

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George Morgan

35
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A Sauk chief who led in the Black Hawk war in order to reclaim stolen land.

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Black Hawk

36
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was a painting that depiction of a historical event—the alleged 1777 murder of a
European woman by the Indian allies of a British general—reflected and fueled popular site -
stereotypes and fears about the victimization of innocent Americans by cruel Indian warriors.

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Jane McCrea

37
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A Mohegan preacher who wrote diaries, letters, ethnographies, sermons, hymns, and
petitions to colonial assemblies. He was a missionary who preached Christianity to Indian peoples and traveled to Britain to raise money for the Indian school at Dartmouth College

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Samson Occom

38
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wrote about the Blackfeet, who monopolized the gun trade in the North and effectively blocked the supply of guns from reaching their enemies in the south and west.

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Saukamappee

39
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A Cherokee war chief who had migrated rather than make peace with the Americans and kept up the fight from new towns they built around Chickamauga Creek in southwestern Tennessee.

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Dragging Canoe

40
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A general during the War of 1812 who then became president in 1829 who then passed the Indian Removal Act which removed Indians from their land.

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Andrew Jackson

41
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she played an intermediary role between Indians and colonists, and her marriage in 1614 to John Rolfe, one of the colonists, helped restore peace.

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Pocahontas

42
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U.S. president who completed the Louisiana Purchase and had regarded Indians as culturally inferior but capable of improvement with the proper instruction.

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Thomas Jefferson

43
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A British general early in the revolutionary war.

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Burgoyne

44
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A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs and claimed Mexico on Spain’s behalf.

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Cortes

45
Q

led an expedition of Spanish soldiers and Indian allies north from New Spain in search of treasures.

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Coronado

46
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a belt that signified the treaty of friendship between the Delaware Indians and William Penn.

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Wampum Belts

47
Q

A Shoshoni Indian woman who helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition serving as a symbol of peace to other Native tribes.

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Sacagewea

48
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the political cartoon depicted Great Britain as the mother and the new America as a rebellion Indian daughter.

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“Female Combatants” 1776