HIST 2055 Lecture : History Notes 9 13
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Terms and boundaries: sovereignty establishing boundaries, the invasion of america- more europeans flow into the united states. Europeans sovereignty- land controlled by them, french and spanish compete against each other. Indians have much more fluid/dynamic way to show boundary, changes by the season if your community is mobile: methodological difficulties, frontier: mythic images of ruthic homesteaders. Youthy american space, zone that moves in the. Borderlands: after the mexican war we had a border, a legal line. 1800: 1,25- eur/af: kinship is at the core of indian polities: kinship trade mixed together indian communities. Spanish come into this region in the 15th century as strangers, no family. Guy looks for gold, chops peoples heads off, they now guide him to their enemies and tell him that the gold is somewhere else so he goes& chops their heads off instead. Europeans: exchanges with strangers or people they may become enemies with: colonial context:
