01:512:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Plains Indians, Juan Bautista De Anza, Barter
8 Nov 2016
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Used firearms and metal tools, like the frontier settlers, they were also part of european commercial economy, indians active in fur trade, indians adapted well to change from europeans, depended on european goods (ex. Clothes, guns: good at playing colonial powers against each other, deerfield raid (english vs. french) amer. The indians in america made up a majority of the population. Many places in the west and the south where the indian culture thrived: indian america, the spanish borderlands, new spain- sophisticated- 1 mil. Mestizo indians: fla, texas, nm, cali= buffer zones. Protected new sp. from expanding emps: florida had little colonial presence. Some in st. augustine, gulf of mexico, and pensacola: nm isolated from the mainstream of new spain. Junipero serra push spanish presence northward: 200 settlers and soldiers founded a presidio and a mission @ san diego, the french crescent, established a hq at monterey bay, founded the pueblo of san francisco, # of cali.
