Similarities Between Native Americans And Spanish Conquistadors
• The word "pueblo" comes from the Spanish word "town". Spanish explorers first came across the Indians in the 16th century. • In most Pueblo tribes men were responsible for farming and warfare where as women took care of the home and family.
• War/Battle of Acoma Pueblo, January 1599 o Spanish conquistadors Vs. Acoma Native Americans o Modern day New Mexico o For the first two days the Spanish and Acoma skirmished inconclusively until Zaldivar developed a plan to breach the pueblo using a small cannon. o At least 2,000 of whom were warriors. o Of the 2,000, about 500 were killed in the battle, along with about 300 women and children. o About 500 were taken
Wars/Battles:
• In 1861Cherokee National Council issued declaration of war against
the United States.
• 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge in Northwest Arkansas.
• The Cherokee Nation, while not a state, was most certainly involved in the War Between the States as a "foreign ally". While some Cherokee troops were aligned with the Union, others aligned themselves with the Confederacy. The result was a war between factions within the Cherokee Nation
• The Inuit are the descendants of the Thule culture. who emerged from western Alaska, after crossing from Siberia, and moved eastward across the Arctic.
• Much later on Christian missionaries came into the arctic and began forcing their religion to the Inuit.
• Non-Violent encounters with the outsiders
• Not many detailed battles or wars.
• The wars culminated in the defeat of the Wyandotte and western Iroquois speakers located in the southern Great Lakes region, and they led to some Iroquois assimilation by 1650.
• By 1700, the Beaver Wars diminished significantly.
• The Iroquois were nearing exhaustion from the intermittent years of warfare and realized that the British were starting to occupy the Mohawk Valley in present-day upstate New York.
• They consequently moved to establish a diplomatic policy of balancing relations.
• War/Battle of Acoma Pueblo, January 1599 o Spanish conquistadors Vs. Acoma Native Americans o Modern day New Mexico o For the first two days the Spanish and Acoma skirmished inconclusively until Zaldivar developed a plan to breach the pueblo using a small cannon. o At least 2,000 of whom were warriors. o Of the 2,000, about 500 were killed in the battle, along with about 300 women and children. o About 500 were taken
Wars/Battles:
• In 1861Cherokee National Council issued declaration of war against
the United States.
• 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge in Northwest Arkansas.
• The Cherokee Nation, while not a state, was most certainly involved in the War Between the States as a "foreign ally". While some Cherokee troops were aligned with the Union, others aligned themselves with the Confederacy. The result was a war between factions within the Cherokee Nation
• The Inuit are the descendants of the Thule culture. who emerged from western Alaska, after crossing from Siberia, and moved eastward across the Arctic.
• Much later on Christian missionaries came into the arctic and began forcing their religion to the Inuit.
• Non-Violent encounters with the outsiders
• Not many detailed battles or wars.
• The wars culminated in the defeat of the Wyandotte and western Iroquois speakers located in the southern Great Lakes region, and they led to some Iroquois assimilation by 1650.
• By 1700, the Beaver Wars diminished significantly.
• The Iroquois were nearing exhaustion from the intermittent years of warfare and realized that the British were starting to occupy the Mohawk Valley in present-day upstate New York.
• They consequently moved to establish a diplomatic policy of balancing relations.