COLORADO HISTORY

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COLORADO HISTORY

• THE EXPLORERS

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Which Native Americangroups lived inthis region
duringthe period of exploration?
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Pueblo Indians (New Mexico)
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Apache
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Comanche
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Kiowa
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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 Utes traded their children for horses
• What would the horse help them to accomplish?

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Changes

• Know families were coming together in larger
  groups
• Worked together
• Also much conflict
• Began to adopt some traditions/customs of the
  Plains Indians

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Cheyenne
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ARAPAHO
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Important events affecting the ownership of
Colorado
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PreColumbian

• before Columbus
• Native Americans lived in Colorado
• (before 1492)

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• Colonial claims in the early 1700s

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France claims Louisiana, then loses it to
Spanish, then regains it, then sells land between
Mississippi Rockies to US (1803)
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Mexico wins independence from Spain --- former
Spanish lands are now Mexican (including parts of
Colorado)

• 1810-20

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Mexican American War 1848
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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.

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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