Knaut explores these sides of the Spanish crown during the seventeenth century of their claim to New Mexico. ... The Native Americans of the New Mexican area before the seventeenth century would face very little outside conflict from foreigners, but by the early 1600's their freedom would radical change. ... The Spanish had one internal problem that would plague them until they left the New World;albeit, the struggle between the church and the state would cause everlasting problems into the next two centuries. ...

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It is unique because Native Americans were the original inhabitants of the Americas and experienced all the stages of its settlement by Europeans since the first colony in the seventeenth century and ending with the completion of the development of the western borders by the end of the nineteenth century. ... At the same time, Native Americans, although they were deprived of their ancestral lands during the nineteenth century, survived and were able to establish themselves in their political and economic rights, maintained their national identity and culture in spite of the invasion of modern...

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Although few histories of the European settlements in North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have acknowledged it, women played a key role in the development of the North American colonies. ... They did not need continued migration from Europe to sustain or expand their settlements, in part because New England and the middle colonies were very healthy places to live by seventeenth-century standards. ...

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