Exam 1 Flashcards
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.
Kennewick Man
People use origin stories to understand contemporary concerns. The illness became a
teaching tool for Navajo elders and singers.
Navajo emergence story
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.
Chaco Canyon
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.
Cahokia
Confederation of six Indian tribes was made during the French and Indian War.
Iroquois Confederacy
The exchange of goods, diseases, technology, slaves, and ideas from Europe to America.
Columbian Exchange
was one of the most effective Indian resistance movements in American history.
Pueblo Revolt
a medicine man from San Juan Pueblo who had been publicly flogged and fled, with masterminding the revolt.
Popé
introduction of buffalo and horses made transportation and trade easier.
Buffalo-Horse Complex
provided information about the rebellion after Spanish priests absolved him and had him swear an oath to tell the truth.
Juan of Tesuque
male, female, and sometimes intersexed individuals who combined activities of both men and women with traits unique to their status as two-spirit people.
Two-Spirit People
criticized Huron sexual practices, gender relations, child-rearing, and festivals.
Jesuit “black robes”
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.
Pequot Massacre
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.
Beaver Wars
symbolically linked the Iroquois and their allies.
Covenant Chain
the war between Indians and the English led by King Philip due to the Puritans encroaching on Wampanoag land. (1675-1676)
King Philip’s War
known as King Philip, led the rebellion/ war against the English.
Metacomet
the war between French and British from 1756-63 on Native American lands, as Natives were forced into this conflict.
French and Indian War
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.
Chief Cornstalk