Evaluate the methods that one of the groups listed below utilized to either resist or assimilate: resist enslavement and/or colonization; or assimilate to European-style cultures, or to the laws and customs of the US, French, or Spanish governments. Why did they choose to resist? To assimilate? Or a combination of both? What did they gain by resisting and/or assimilating? What did they hope to gain? Were they successful? Why or why not?
Choose one group:
1. Enslaved Africans in the eastern US and Caribbean
2. Native Americans in the southern US, New Spain (Mexico), or California
3. Tejanos or Californios (specifically the documents on Corridos/Tejano music...