Who were the Querechos? A. the dissident Spanish priests who opposed the hacienda and encomienda systems
B. the name the Spanish gave to the Apache and Navajo in the sixteenth century
C. the first Spanish name for the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico
D. the name the Puebloans gave to the first Spanish colonists

The Querechos were a Native American people. In 1541 the Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and his army journeyed east from the Rio Grande Valley in search of a rich land called Quivira. Passing through what would later be the panhandle of Texas he met a people he called the Querechos.

most people were factory or company owners.