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Research Paper On Cabeza De Vaca's Voyage

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The beginning of Cabeza de Vaca’s voyage was very promising; he had strong ships, a team of 600 men, and ample amount of horses, food, and resources. Their motive of finding new land to call home and spread the message of Christianity was going to come true. Before arriving to the new land, they were very prestige and well off. However, after a sequence of events, these things changed. By the time they got to Florida, Cabeza de Vaca’s group was down to 300 men. That is half of what they started with. Upon arriving to the new land, they had difficult encounters with the Native Americans. Although they couldn’t understand what was being said, they knew that they were being threatened. More people from the group died because of the Natives attacking, lack of resources, and illnesses. The Spaniards believed they were better than the natives, however, instead of enslaving them, Cabeza de Vaca and his men became enslaved by the Indians. The group lost everything, besides faith. For example, “one of the gentlemen in our company, died; and the boat we had intended to go infoundered and could not float, and later it sank. And as we were in the condition I have described and most of us were naked, and the weather was too severe for marching… that if God Our Loard was pleased to bring them there…” (Castaways …show more content…

44-45). In this quote, Cabeza de Vaca gives the worst news possible for this time, however, he says it with such calmness, and putting God first because although they do not have anything, they have faith and that is enough to get them through

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When cabeza de vaca was healed as a healer for the Charrucos, that was the only way he survived and was kept as the healer for the Charrucos. Cabeza de vaca survived because of his wilderness skills.” Cabeza de vaca faced many obstacles along his way to mexico city, he had to got through mountains, desert, the rio grande, and unfriendly indians along the path.” (Document A). this describes that he had to go through tough times but he survived using his wilderness skills.

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The Indians were a key part in Cabeza de Vaca’s survival.

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Their goal was to not only create a route but they were on a mission to convert the inhabitance to Catholicism. They journeyed over 1,700 miles. Along the way they created a map and journal of their findings. They hunted fish and other fowl.

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Cabeza’s resourcefulness helped him survive by allowing him to survive the cold and darkness with the torch. His ability to learn languages helped him survive by allowing him to communicate with the Natives Americans that he came

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Cabeza de Vaca attitude towards the new world was that of suffering and starvation. During his travels, he ate very little, mostly deer-tallow and at one point powdered straw. They did not eat during the day and ate very little at night. Cabeza de Vaca and his men grew very tired and hungry, but could not let the Native Americans see this suffering because they were upholding their authority over them. Cabeza de Vaca’s description of the terrain in some parts differed greatly from that of Columbus in that Columbus stated that the terrain he saw was rich lush lands with warm air and year round green

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He survived. He survived the ship wreck, he survived being captured by indians, he survived being in slavery, and he survived his way back to new Spain. Although I know that languagaes, being a healer, and gaining trust aren’t everything he did, I beleive that if he didn’t take the time to do them he probably wouldn’t have been able to write a story about his journey. In conclusion I beleive that Cabeza de Vaca has a incredible story on how he survived and I defidently look up to all the acheivement he accomplished and the compassion he gave towards the indians although everyone in his time

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Moreover, in 1537, another Spanish explorer known as Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, wrote a book titled La Relación, where he explained the obstacles him and his crew had to face during the Narvaez expedition in 1527 to the Spanish King, Charles I. In connection to all the men who sailed “from Cuba to Tampa Bay in present-day Florida” only “Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and three other men survived the expedition, but only after enduring a nine-year, six-hundred-mile trek across Texas and Mexico and enslavement by Indians…….” In my opinion, this letter gives the reader a much clearer understanding of the things that Cabeza de Vaca saw during his journey because he writes his letters using words like “my”, “I”, and “me” which makes it clear to us

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The Spaniards were wrong for keeping the Indians as their slaves. The Spaniards also had no right to take away what religious believes the Indians had. Two documents, the first one was by Las Casas who was a Dominican priest, he documented how the Spaniards treated the Indians as slaves because the Indians did not want to convert to Christianity. The second document was by Josepha who was a Spanish-speaking Indian who documented the Native Americans taking away Christianity from the Spaniards. The Spaniard took away all the freedom from the Indians, because the Spaniards want the Indians to convert to Christianity, the Indians did not want to convert so the Spaniards took everything from the Indians, and used the Indians as slaves.

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