Invade the West An Apache boy at Bosque Redondo c 186468 New Mexico State Monuments Sarah Winnemucca 1 What story did Sarah Winnemuccas grandfather tell about the whites ID: 321998
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Strangers Invade the West
An Apache boy
at
Bosque Redondo, c. 1864-68New Mexico State Monuments.
Sarah Winnemucca
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What story did Sarah Winnemucca’s grandfather tell about the whites?
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Indian Removal
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Westward trails – 1840s
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California
Native American
Heritage Commission (NAHC)
Estimated population c. 1492 = 310,000
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Spanish Franciscan
missions, 1769-1821
Library of
Congress
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California Indians c. 1769
Small, politically autonomous groups
Little prior trade contact with Europeans -> no guns or horsesSpain uncontested in the area-> Indians couldn’t ally with other Europeans against Spain
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Santa Barbara mission
founded
1784. Photo: Library of
Congress. Neophytes =Indians whoconverted toChristianityBy 1821: 21,000 neophytes in 21 missions
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The end of the mission system1821 Mexican independence from Spain. Indians granted Mexican citizenship.
1833 Missions disbandedFriars limited to religious role
Farms privatizedHalf was supposed to go to neophytesCorruption -> most went to large ranchers
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‘The Gold Rush’,
PBS.org
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1883
engraving
from
the CenturyMagazine (LOC).William Joseph (Nisenan)
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1848: < 20,000 non-
Indians
in California
By 1852: approx. 250,000 non-Indians 20,000 Chinese arrived in
1852. 7 men for every woman in 1852.
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Act for the Government and Protection of Indians
(1850)
Facilitated exploitation:Indians convicted of crime,
including vagrancy, could be contracted out to whitesIndian
children could be removed
from their families
to become apprentices
to
whites
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native population of California
1492: 310,0001820: 200,0001846: 150,000
1870: 30,0001900: 15,000 (out of 1.5 million)2000: 330,000 (out of 33.9 million)
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Taos Mission, New Mexico
(Photo: National
Humanities
Center)
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Taos pueblo
today
. Photo: National Geographic
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Apache
Apache on
horseback. Photograph
by Edward Curtis, 1903. 18Slide19
Governor
Henry
Connelly of New Mexico
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Bosque
Redondo
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Navajo
at
Bosque
Redondo. Photo: New Mexico State Monuments.21Slide22
Navajos
under
guard
at Fort Sumner, c. 1864. Photo: New Mexico Office of the State Historian
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Cochise, leader of Chiricahua ApachesGeneral O.O. Howard
General Gordon Granger Two versions of the
same speech or two different speeches?
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Sarah Winnemucca
Daughter
of a chief
of the Northern PaiutesGranddaughter of ‘Truckee’ who guided John
C. Frémont during expedition to California (1843-45) and
fought in theMexican-American War (1846-48)
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