Cabeza De Vaca Dbq

Cabeza De Vaca is a very famous explorer he has been through so much all his life and he still got what he wanted...eventually. He had very exotic tasks such as being a healer to even walking more than 400 miles to Mexico City. Cabeza started all these tasks just for two things. He wanted treasure and to establish settlements with his group. In this story I explain how he survived from becoming a healer, to respecting native americans, to lastly knowing the knowledge of nature and wilderness skills.
Cabeza De Vaca became a healer to survive with the native americans and to not be killed by them. He helped a man with a wound too. “Here they brought me a man, and they told me that a long time ago he had been wounded through the right shoulder with an arrow, and the point of the arrow rested over his heart...I gave him two stitches. And two days later, I removed the two stitches from the Indian and he was healed.” (Document C) Cabeza was a slave for the Native Americans and started to help people so he could survive. He saw many people from wounds to people in severe pain but he was never killed with his

smart expertise.Cabeza De Vaca was a healer but not compared to respecting the Native Americans.
Cabeza De Vaca was a healer but not compared to respecting for the Native Americans.

He did everything he could to survive. “And two days later, I removed the two stitches from the Indian and he was healed. And this cure gave us a very great reputation among them throughout the whole land.” (Document C) Cabeza De Vaca tried everything to not get killed even when he was captured by the Native Americans. Cabeza De Vaca was treated well until the Native Americans turned him into a slave. “After nearly seven years of captivity and almost two years spent walking west and south.”(Document D) Cabeza De Vaca did not enjoy being held captive but tried every way to escape. If you think that a healer plus Cabeza De Vaca respecting the Native Indians was very difficult compare that to him surviving in the wilderness with only a few survivors in this next

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In this next paragraph I will show you the most difficult task Cabeza De Vaca had to deal with. The knowledge of nature plus wilderness skills. When Cabeza De Vaca decided to walk more than 400 miles to Mexico City he had to take many breaks along the way. Cabeza De Vaca stopped at many places but had the right skills he learned to survive. He had to deal with no water, no food, plus no clothes out in the open fields. “With other raft survivors adrift in the gulf of Mexico, Cabeza drank water stored in hollowed-out horse-leg containers. Lost and completely naked, Cabeza happened on a smoldering tree had been struck by lightning. He lit a branch in the dying flames and kept the torch burning as he walked. Each night he huddled in a hole that he’d dug and ‘around that pit placed four fires like the points of a cross’.” (Document B) Cabeza De Vaca knew the knowledge of nature and that came into use. Many obstacles have faced Cabeza De Vaca but he never gave up and kept walking.
Cabeza De Vaca was a very courageous explorer that never gave up. He always found a way out of everything and never had any setbacks. In all conclusion Cabeza De Vaca survived by becoming a healer, respecting the Native Americans, and lastly having the knowledge of nature and the wilderness. Cabeza De Vaca is a famous explorer and it will stay that way forever.