Scholarly reviews provide a reader with an analytical insight to an author’s analysis on a monograph. In The Comanche Empire, Pekka Hamalainen creates a thesis, which claims the Comanche Native Americans created a powerful empire in the Southwest. Assessing Hamalainen’s thesis, reviewers Joel Minor, Dan Flores, Gerald Betty, and Joaqin Rivaya Martinez present a variety of views on the monograph. Providing the strengths and weakness of Hamalainen’s text, each reviewer agrees and disagrees on several of the monograph’s points. The scholarly reviews provide a structured assessment, which offers the reader with an individual perspective of the monograph under review.
Key Concept 1.1: As native populations migrated and settled across the vast expanse of North America over time, they developed distinct and increasingly complex societies by adapting to and transforming their diverse environments. Sub Concept I: Different native societies adapted to and transformed their environments through innovations in agriculture, resource use, and social structure. Topics Notes A.)
The chickasaw tribe was located in Mississippi but they got forced out and into the southeast United states. The chickasaw were farmers and hunters. They always looked for their three main foods including corn, beans, and squash. They used animal skin for men and the women wore skirts and dresses.
The Shoshone were nomadic, meaning that they never stayed and settled in one place. They followed their food source and carried their homes with them. That is why the horse is so important to the shoshone. They also weaved like the Navajo by making baskets and other things. The Shoshoni in the mountains were very warlike and
The largest issue, according to Francis Haines’s article “The Northward Spread of Horses among the Plains Indians”, was their poor understanding of how the horse works. A horse is a prey animal, its first instinct is to run away. This is quite similar to cows and sheep, but they are generally less frightened especially when one compares a domestic cow to a wild horse. Horses also have a much different digestive track than the other grazers that the Comanche may be more acquainted to. They require a variety of different forages in their diet.
Another thing that was very important to the Comanches was trophy hunting. the Comanche would try and take the scalps of their enemies after being killed. The scalp of a human was taken if possible, although it was quite difficult to obtain all of it. The scalp was a representation of victory and was used in a victory dance. After some time, strands of hair from it were useful for clothing.
essie Sisavat Professor Duarte History 40 September 21, 2015 Reaction One 1. How effective or not was the Spanish conquest of the Maya Indians and why? Explain.
The relationship between Chicanos and Central Americans is a unique one because there is often a misconception and racialization that Central Americans and Chicano are one in the same based on physical characteristics and the way their cultures have intertwined. As Alvarado mention in her article, mutual misrepresentation both groups have not been able to fully represent themselves as either Chicano/Chicana or Central American or perhaps a mixture of both. Both Chicanos and Central Americans for years have occupied the same places and have very similar customs leading to the generalization that all brown people are Mexican or of Mexican descent. As stated in Alvarado’s paper “The Central American borderlands include the isthmus through Mexico
Indigenous people in the Mississippi Valley lived in square dwellings with a triangular roof, made of wood, mud and thatch. Homes for elite members of society or buildings for public use were built on massive mounds with flattened tops, created by moving earth via baskets. The structures on top of the mounds, especially those that the elite resided in, were both more spacious and more ornate than those inhabited by commoners. Pueblo Indians lived in buildings made from a material called adobe; which is bricks of clay and straw left to dry in the sun. These buildings, called pueblos, were often up to six feet high with walls several feet thick, divided in a similar fashion to a modern apartment building.
Sanapia was a member of the Comanche tribe. This is a reservation Oklahoma. Her birth was in the spring of 1895. Religion was a personal matter (Kavanagh, 2009). This has resulted in exposure to more than one belief system during her childhood.
Compare and contrast essay for the Maya, Aztec, and Inca tribes. In this essay I will be talking about the differences and similarities of these tribes. The first topic I will be comparing and contrasting is the religions of these tribes. The second topic is about the government of these tribes and the third is technology. The location for the mayan is Central america.
Urbanization Texas’s shift In order to convert Native Americans into Christianity, missions were established and farms were cultivated in order to feed the population. Later on Americans brought a new language, democracy, slavery and ideas to transformed Texas urban life. New technologies changed Texas urban landscape.
When comparing the Southwest indians to the Eastern Woodlands indians I found there were some differences, in their homes, the indians in the Southwest had hut like homes made of stone or adobe while indians in the Eastern Woodlands had lodge like homes made from wood. Farming and hunting seemed to be big for the Eastern Woodlands, but most of the Southwest people were just gatherers and hunters when they could be, although there were some successful farmers. Both areas had hostile groups of people, but the two groups in the Southwest later became more settled and peaceful. The Eastern Woodlands and the Great Plains had a few differences, again their homes being one of them.
Europeans had many effects on the area now known as Texas and on the Indians. Few if any of those effects were positive. The Conquistadors affected the people, the land, and caused the colonization of Texas. They had many motives for their deeds, converting the Indians to Christianity, finding cities of gold, or just claiming land. A Spanish conquistador named Cabeza de Vaca crashed into the mainland near Galveston in 1528 and began exploring the area now known as Texas.
In the 16th Century, Spain became one of the European forces to reckon with. To expand even further globally, Spanish conquistadors were sent abroad to discover lands, riches, and North America and its civilizations. When the Spanish and Native American groups met one another, they judged each other, as they were both unfamiliar with the people that stood before them. The Native American and Spanish views and opinions of one another are more similar than different because when meeting and getting to know each other, neither the Spaniards nor the Native Americans saw the other group of people as human. Both groups of people thought of one another as barbaric monsters and were confused and amazed by each other’s cultures.
