Directions: Read the selections below. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado & Native Americans and La Salle & Native Americans and answer the question on the next page within the space provided
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado & Native Americans
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I remained twenty-five days in this province of Quivira, so as to see and explore the country and also to find
out whether there was anything beyond which could be of service to Your Majesty (Spanish Kingl, because
the guides who had brought me had given me an account of other provinces beyond this. And what I am sure
of is that there is not any gold nor any other metal in all that country, and the other things of which they had
told me are nothing but little villages, and in many of these they do not plant anything and do not have any
houses except of skins and sticks, and they wander around with the cows (buffalo): so that the account they
gave me was false, because they wanted to persuade me to go there with the whole force, believing that as
the way was through such uninhabited deserts, and from the lack of water, they would get us where we and
our horses would die of hunger. And the guides confessed this
- Coronado's Report to the King of Spain Sent from Tiguex on October 20, 1541
La Salle & Native Americans
Question 4: Did they find any natives there, and did they have any communication with them?
Reply: All the region is peopled with natives, who are divided into small tribes, each having its own name as
well as its own language, which differs from that of the others. The Talon brothers were in communication with
two of these tnbes in particular, Pierre Talon with the Ceni, the mildest and best disposed of all the tribes of
which they had knowledge, they are about one hundred leagues inland. These Ceni have their own village, where
they live by families in wooden houses thatched with hay La Salle became friendly with them (and sent Pierre
Talon to them to try to learn the language
- an excerpt from. The interrogation of the Talon Brothers' 1698
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Directions: Based on the selections what was the difference between the goals of the Coronado expedition and the La Salle expedition Support your
answer vuth evidence from the selection Record your answer in the space provided
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