1A#2 Indigenous Peoples

Benchmark 1-A:

New Mexico Explore and explain how people and events have influenced the development of New Mexico up to the present day.

#2 Standard with Test Specifications:

Describe the characteristics of other indigenous peoples that had an effect upon New Mexico’s development (e.g., pueblo farmers, Great Plains’ horse culture, nomadic bands, —noting their development of tools, trading routes, adaptation to environments, social structure, domestication of plants and animals).

Specifications:

● Identify Apache, early Navajo (Dine), and Pueblo people and how they adopted aspects of the cultures they encountered

Sample Question:

What practice of Pueblo and Apache peoples was disturbed or interrupted by Spanish colonialism?

A. their religious ceremonies*

B. their labor in silver mines

C. their use of horses in hunting and warfare

D. their implementation of coin as a means of trade