COLORADO HISTORY THE EXPLORERS. Which Native American groups lived in this region during the period of exploration?
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COLORADO HISTORY
THE EXPLORERS
Which Native Americangroups lived in
this region duringthe period of exploration?
UTE
Little is known of their early culture Lived in extended family groups (not larger tribes) Much respect for the older people in their family Traded with other Indian Tribes & the Spanish THE HORSE: Ute’s traded their children for
horses What would the horse help them to accomplish?
Changes
Know families were coming together in larger groups
Worked together Also much conflict Began to adopt some traditions/customs of the
Plains Indians
Important events affecting the
“ownership” of Colorado
“PreColumbian”before Columbus
Native Americans lived in Colorado
(before 1492)
Colonial claims in the early 1700s
France claims “Louisiana”, then loses it to Spanish, then regains it, then sells land
between Mississippi & Rockies to US (1803)
Mexico wins independence from
Spain --- former Spanish lands are
now Mexican (including parts of
Colorado)1810-20
Mexican American War 1848
Mexican American War 1848 Mexico's cession of Alta California and Nuevo México
and its recognition of U.S. sovereignty over all of Texas north of the Rio Grande formalized the addition of 1.2 million mi of territory to the United States.
In return the United States agreed to pay $15 million and assumed the claims of its citizens against Mexico.
A final territorial adjustment between Mexico and the United States was made by the Gadsen Purchase in 1853.
CONCLUSION OF THE EXPLORERS
These explorers had done little more than chart the rivers and provide basic geographic information
It was left to the mountain men to be the true explorers of the Rocky Mountain frontier
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