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Spanish colonizers kidnap and sell Apache, Diné ("Navajo"), and Ute people into slavery.

1600s

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This begins the shift in colonization strategies away from quick, extractive tours, in which the Spaniards would arrive and collect as many resources as quickly as they could, towards longer-term settlements with industries dependent on forced labor.