Cabeza De Vaca Dbq

Cabeza De Vaca is a very famous explorer he has been through so much all his life and he still got what he wanted...eventually. He had very exotic tasks such as being a healer to even walking more than 400 miles to Mexico City. Cabeza started all these tasks just for two things. He wanted treasure and to establish settlements with his group. In this story I explain how he survived from becoming a healer, to respecting native americans, to lastly knowing the knowledge of nature and wilderness skills. Cabeza De Vaca became a healer to survive with the native americans and to not be killed by them. He helped a man with a wound too. “Here they brought me a man, and they told me that a long time ago he had been wounded through the right shoulder with an arrow, and the point of the arrow rested over his heart...I gave him two stitches. And two days later, I removed the two stitches from the Indian and he was healed.” (Document C) Cabeza was a slave for the Native Americans and started to help people so he could survive. He saw many people from wounds to people in severe pain but he was never killed with his

He did everything he could to survive. “And two days later, I removed the two stitches from the Indian and he was healed. And this cure gave us a very great reputation among them throughout the whole land.” (Document C) Cabeza De Vaca tried everything to not get killed even when he was captured by the Native Americans. Cabeza De Vaca was treated well until the Native Americans turned him into a slave. “After nearly seven years of captivity and almost two years spent walking west and south.”(Document D) Cabeza De Vaca did not enjoy being held captive but tried every way to escape. If you think that a healer plus Cabeza De Vaca respecting the Native Indians was very difficult compare that to him surviving in the wilderness with only a few survivors in this next