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Section 2: pp. 76-77, "Exploring the Spanish Borderlands." SPANISH BORDERLANDS refer to the Spanish colonial frontier in what later became the United States. By the late eighteenth century, Spanish claims extended west along the southern rim of North America from Florida to California, and north along the coast to Alaska. The Spanish borderlands vanished as a regional entity in 1821, when Mexico became independent, but its cultural and material legacies endure almost two hundred years later in the borderlands between Mexico and the United States. (retrieved on November 2,2009, [])From this website I recieved information

Narváez was subsequently appointed //adelantado// (governor) of Florida by Charles V. He sailed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda on June 17, 1527 with a fleet of five ships and 600 men. The expedition arrived on the coast of Florida in April 1528, weakened by storms and desertions. He landed with 350 men near the Rio de las Palmas—at what is currently known as theJungle Prada Site in St. Petersburg—among hostile natives. From there, his expedition marched northward through interior Florida until it reached the territory of the powerful Apalachee Indians. Unable to find the gold and other riches he sought and tired of the hostilities with the Indians, Narváez ordered the construction of four rafts to return to the sea from the interior. He intended to rejoin the ships and continue to Mexico, but the vessels were destroyed in a storm. Narváez and almost all the membe rs of his expedition died. The storm wrecked two of the four rafts. The eighty men who survived the storm began an overland trek for Mexico. Starvation claimed most of their lives. Only four men survived the trek including one Berber slave named Estevanico (Esteban). Cabeza de Vaca wrote a narration entitled //Naufragios// (//Castaways//), in which he described the journey made by these four survivors on foot across the southeastern United States. This trek took eight years before they arrived in Culiacán (Sinaloa ), where they found a Spanish settlement.

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Mr. Martin-section 5: pp. 78-80, "Harsh Life for Native Americans." A key point that I found interesting is found on page 79 and how the priest Bartolome de Las Casas tried to intercede on behalf of the Native Americans for better conditions. I used the website:** ****http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/theconquest/a/09armsconquest.htm****

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 * I found something very interesting in that it showed that Las Casas did more than petition the government for better conditions for the Native Americans, he actually tried to do something about. It also showed me that throughout history, there were always people who were involved with social justice even with the chance of placing themselves in great harm.

(From the website) First Experiments: Las Casas convinced Spanish authorities to allow him to try and save the few remaining Caribbean natives by taking them out of slavery and placing them in free towns, but the death of King Ferdinand in 1516 and the resulting chaos over his successor caused these reforms to be delayed. Las Casas also asked for and received a section of the Venezuelan mainland for an experiment: he believed that he could pacify the natives with religion, not weapons. Unfortunately, the region that was selected had been heavily raided by slavers, and the natives’ hostility to the Europeans was too intense to overcome.

The Verapaz Experiment:  In 1537, Las Casas wanted to try again to show that natives could be controlled peacefully and that violence and conquest were unnecessary. He was able to convince the crown to let him send missionaries to a region in north-central Guatemala where the natives had proved particularly fierce. His experiment worked, and the natives were brought under Spanish control peacefully. The experiment was called Verapaz, or “true peace,” and the region still bears the name. Unfortunately, once the region was brought under control, greedy colonists took the lands and enslaved the natives, undoing almost all of Las Casas’ work.  This is an example of my paraphrasing the above section from the website, citing my source, and how it would look on your expert group wiki:  **

 ** Mr. Martin-section 5: pp. 78-80, "Harsh Life for Native Americans." ** A key point that I found interesting is found on page 79 and how the priest Bartolome de Las Casas tried to intercede on behalf of the Native Americans for better conditions. I found something that I found very interesting section very interesting because it showed that Bartolome did more than petition the government for better conditions for the Native Americans, he actually tried to do something about. It also showed me that throughout history, there were always people who were involved with social justice even with the chance of placing themselves in great harm.

Las Casas found that even with his interventions on behalf of the Native Americans, he needed to show the government that more needed to be done. He was allowed to take the remaining Caribbean natives to Venezuela to start a free town, but his first attempt failed due to slave traders and hostility from the local natives. His second attempt found him using missionaries in Guatemala to subdue the natives using peaceful means and was successful. That area of Guatemala is still called "true peace." Unfortunately, the greed of the colonists undid Las Casas work as they took native's land and enslaved many of the residents. (Retrieved on November 1, 2009 from [] )