HISTORY 40A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Half-Way Covenant, Medicine Man, Samuel Parris
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He was the 2nd in command of a conquistador expedition consisting of 300 men in florida, in 1528. Apalachee indians, and therefore the spanish returned to the coast and constructed 5 barges. Vaca"s ship was wrecked at the coast of. Texas, but he survived with 2 other spaniards and esteban (a black. They were captured by karankawa natives and made medicine men and then later were freed. They were passed from group to group until the 4 men were returned to mexico after disappearing for 8 years. Cabeza had a unique perspective and insight into the cultures of indians, hence he wrote about it in his account. It describes how the ethnic groups are formed and developed over the years. This ethno genesis is a study of beginning of groups of ethnicities and how people self-identify themselves into certain ethnic groups. When spanish arrived in north america, many of the native.
