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Sailing and navigating a ship through a storm is difficult, but it’s even harder if the storm is on land. But the storm is not just the weather at its worst, it is instead the hardships faced in the New World. In 1527, Spanish ships full of hundreds of men set sail for the New World. But due to severe currents and winds, the ships landed near modern-day Florida coast. They continued the journey on rafts, but hundreds of men petered out to four, one of which was Cabeza de Vaca. How did Cabeza de Vaca survive? Cabeza de Vaca survived because he had survival skills, success as a healer, and respect for the Native Americans. Cabeza de Vaca survived due to his survival skills. He crossed the Sierra Madre Oriental, the Sierra Madre Occidental, deserts, and the Rio Grande River. He made this 2,600 mile walk to get to safety in Mexico City. (Doc. A) However, his survival skills came into play when the ships were wrecked. Along with other castaways, he drank water out of hollowed out horse legs, and eventually, when he became a slave to the Native Americans, he “ate what was available such as berries, mollusks, rats, roots, lizards, snakes, and spiders.” Howbeit, he later befriended his captors and learned many …show more content…
Another man was brought to him that had been wounded by an arrow, and to save him Cabeza took a knife and after much struggle, he pulled out the arrow. This was the first recorded surgery in North America and this was met with great approval and standing in the New World. (Doc. C) When the Spaniards told lies of Cabeza ands other survivors, they were not fully convinced, because they had been healers to them and were humble. (Doc. D) Cabeza also survived because of his respect for the Native Americans. Cabeza de Vaca befriended his captors and served as a trader among the Indian bands. To better communicate with them, “Cabeza learned four Indian languages, including Charuccos, plus sign language.”
Cabeza de Vaca survived by using intelligent strategies that kept him alive just barely. Cabeza used his great communication skills for survival. He was also an amazing healer. Another reason is he had amazing talent with navigation. Overall, Cabeza was a strategist, and he was very smart.
Karankawa gave them food and shelter. Cabeza de Vaca gave us the first recorded accounts of
In "The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca", Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s fight for survival, while being deprived of the basic necessities of life, proves there is a change in him from the beginning of the narrative to the end. This transformation, though, affected multiple aspects of de Vaca, including his motives, character, and perspective of civilization. Cabeza de Vaca’s experience is crucial to the history of America, as well as Spain, because it was one of the first accounts that revealed a certain equilibrium between the mighty and superior Spaniard and the Indian, once the Spaniard was stripped of his noble stature. The idea of nakedness is consistent throughout the narrative and conveys the tribulations he experienced and a sort of balance between him and the Indians. The original intentions of conquering and populating the area between Florida and a northern part of Mexico quickly shifted Cabeza de Vaca’s focus to the need to survive. His encounter with different Indian tribes and ability to get along with them (no matter what the means), and then prosper as a medicine man, shows that through his beliefs in Christian faith, and in himself, he turned the failure into an unexpected success.
Victorio was a famous Chiricahua Indian chief. He has had some cool things happen in his life that made the history book and put his tribes on the map. I have some own knowledge about the Chiricahua Indians. My family has some Chiricahua Indian in them. My grandpa and great aunt are both Mexican and Chiricahua Indians. All of my grandpa's siblings, parents, and grandparents have traces of Chiricahua Indian.
As the values of the Indians, the natives that Cabeza De Vaca encountered on his eight year journey, that were roaming the south are compared to the moral values of the Spanish and then to the
A man who had to devour anything he could see. A man who had to drink water from a horse container to survive. A man who had to make his own hole for warmth. That man was Cabeza de Vaca. During Cabeza de Vaca's expedition, he shipwrecked near present day Galveston Island, Texas. This caused a life threatening situation. Cabeza de Vaca survived his eight year journey for three reasons: his wilderness skills, his success as a healer, and his respect for the Native Americans.
Cabeza de Vaca stories is a conversion narrative, which the conversion is the between Cabeza de Vaca 's thoughts of the Native Americans. In the beginning of Castaways, Cabeza de Vaca did not interact with the natives as much as he does later in his story. In chapter three of his book, Castaways, he says that the Indians and his group, Spaniards did not get along. Once his group reached Florida he states:
What he and his men did to the Indigenous people is told in horrifying detail by the Dominican priest Bartolome de Las Casas, “whose writings give the most thorough account of the Spanish-Indian encounter.” Las Casas witnessed firsthand Columbus’ soldiers stabbing Natives for sport, dashing babies’ heads on rocks, and sexually abusing Indigenous women. His testimony was corroborated by other eyewitnesses, such as a group of Dominican friars, who addressed the Spanish monarchy in 1519, hoping to bring an end to the atrocities. At the very least, Columbus was complicit in the actions of his men. He cared so little for the welfare of the Indigenous people that he let his soldiers commit reprehensible acts that would be considered crimes against humanity in the present day. Christopher Columbus’ actions suggest he had no issue with serving as an enabler of the horrifying actions committed by his men against the Indigenous
The Black Legend and White Legend: Relationship Between the Spanish and Indians in the New World
On June 27, 1527, the Narváez expedition set sailed from Spain with the objective to colonize Florida. A series of disasters led them to arrive there with limited supplies. A combination of starvation, disease, and conflict with various Native Americans tribes further led to extreme casualties for the expedition as it trekked along the Gulf Coast from Florida, before shipwrecking in South Texas. Over the course of the next 8 years, the survivors, led by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, were enslaved by various native tribes in Southwestern North America. By 1536, he and three others were all that remained of the 300-men strong expedition upon their encounter with Spanish slavers in New Spain. They would return to Spain in 1537. That same year, Cabeza de Vaca wrote down his experiences in America as The Chronicles of the Narvaez Expedition. Throughout the book, Cabeza de Vaca repeatedly
The narrative is centered around Cabeza de Vaca’s struggles and losses while exploring the new world, but because of his purpose of writing the reliability can be questioned. Also, Cabeza de Vaca uses pathos and writes in a negative tone in this account to make the king sympathize for him and his men to justify his losses. La Relacion is not a reliable source because in some places the truth could have been bent to justify Cabeza de Vaca lack of men, supply, and money when he returned to Spain.
In fact, Native American medicine men belief is firmly grounded in age-old traditions, legends and teachings. Healing and medical powers have existed since the very beginning of time according to Native American stories. Consequently they have handed down the tribe's antediluvian legends, which i...
On June 17, 1527, Cabeza de Vaca set sail on the order to conquer and govern the lands from the Rio Grande to the cape of Florida. However, during his journey he encountered much devastation such as the wrecking of his ship which resulted in his separation from the majority of his Christian companions. Praying to God after every ordeal, Cabeza routinely sought after his Christian religion to guide him through his unexpected journey. While traveling through the interior of America, he also encountered many native tribes which inhabited the land. While most of the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century spread their religion through warlike ways and rearranged societies for the sole purpose of their own economic gain, Cabeza thought that kindness was the only way to win the hearts of the natives and without clothes or any material possessions, he upheld his promise and beliefs. After being enslaved by the natives Cabeza moved from tribe to tribe with the hope of finding his fellow Christians while praising and thanking God that his life was spared. Moving from tribe to tribe as a medicine man Cabeza still lived by his Christian teachings and implemented them into the way that he communicated with the natives, ultimately converting many tribes into Christianity. The religion of Christianity directly influenced the way in which Cabeza de Vaca interacted and felt toward the natives, thus throughout the duration of his time traveling across the interior of America, Cabeza was able to continually practice his religious beliefs while also being able to convert many Indians to his religion at the same time.
...s others whether it is one of their own or someone completely different. This variance shows that instead of being vastly different as de Vaca often describes, the two groups were in reality equals. The best insight is de Vaca’s own words on the matter. At various times he describes the Indians as “savages”. However, at the end of his journey, he states that “Clearly, to bring all these people to Christianity and subjection to Your Imperial Majesty, they must be won by kindness, the only certain way” (123). Cabeza de Vaca’s transformation from a condescending invader to a man declaring the need for kindness towards natives proves that his ideas towards Indians had transformed from superiority towards equality. If Cabeza de Vaca’s advice to governmental power on expansion had been heeded it is possible that the horrors of future imperialism would have been averted.
One explorer, in particular, was Hernando de Soto's expedition began in the Southwestern corner of Georgia in 1540. Although, Native Americans in the area where convivial, and shared resources like food with the Spanish, de Soto, and other Spanish conquistadors dealt with them cruelly. One of his expeditions in Alabama sparked a war with the local natives, however, they were not a match for the technologically advanced weapons the Spanish had, killing thousands of their people. Additionally, de Soto and his men were thought to be the first European peoples to discover the Mississippi River, but he soon died from a fever. Throughout the years following de Soto’s exploration, they found no riches and returned to Spain with only their lives, European disease had a major impact on the Native Americans. Over time the Native American civilization began drastically and dramatically decreasing due to the European diseases, such as measles and chickenpox, that they had no immunity to, henceforth showing this cost has a superior