Unit 1 ~ Till 1607Making Arguments From Images

Making Arguments from ImagesEvery group will be assigned 2-3 slidesStudent Instructions: Construct arguments that comment on history till 1607 through your use of ESPeN. You will present to the class your findings which analyze aspects of Native American life up to 1607.

Essential QuestionsE Group: What does this image reveal about Economics?S Group: What does this image reveal about Social organizations?P Group: What does this image reveal about Politics?eN Group: What does this image reveal about human-Environment interactions

ACAPSYou will also need to practice “appropriate use of relevant historical evidence” by doing ACAPS for your documentsAuthor (point of view)Context (where and when it was created might affect the meaning)AudiencePurposeSignificance

Source: Theodor de Bry “The New Queen”, an engraving by made from a 16th c drawing by Jacque le Moyne, a French colonist in Florida.

In terms of politics: This tribe shows a matriarchy or matriarchal tendencies allowing females power. This Indian queen is revered and rules over this tribe. Warfare.In terms of society: This image shows hierarchy. Socially this women has higher status than other women. It also shows matriarchy in that she is a powerful woman.

Example of an Image and ESPeN analysis

Source: “The Village of Secoto

n” by English artist John White,

1585-1586.

Source: Map of the Aztec capital Tenotchtitlan published with a collection of letters

from Hernan Cortes in 1524.

Source: A modern aerial photograph of the ruins of Pueblo Bonita in Chaco Canyon in

present-day New Mexico.

Source: English artist John White portraying ten male and seven female Native

Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.

Source: Depiction of Spanish and Native Americans, 1621.

Source: Map of Native American ways of life, ca.1500.

Source: Engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a 16th century painting of Florida

Indians by French colonist Jacques Le Moyne .

Source: An engraving of an

Iroquois longhouse by a French

Jesuit, seventeenth-century.

Source: Columbus’s Landfall, a Spanish engraving from a pamphlet, 1493.

Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction

of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.

Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction

of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.

Source: English artist John White

portraying Native Americans from an

Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.

Source: Paintings by Mexican

artist Andrés de Islas, 18th century.

↑ ‘mestizo’ child ↑ ‘castizo’ child

‘coyote’ child → ← ‘chino’ child

Source: A banner carried by Spanish troops led by Cortes, 16th century.

Source: Engraving by Dutch Protestant Theodor de Bry depicting the Spanish and

Indians in Cuzco (present-day Peru) in 1532.