Author: Alonso de BenavidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630
Author: Alonso de BenavidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Benavides' Memorial of 1630
Author: Alonso de BenavidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630
Author: Alonso de BenavidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Fray Alonso de Benavides' Revised Memorial of 1634
Author: Alonso de BenavidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A Harvest of Reluctant Souls
Author: Alonso de BenavidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Nearly four hundred years old, this unique classic of Southwestern American history is now available in a modern translation to a wide reading public. Fray Alonso de Benavides, a Portuguese Franciscan and third head of the mission churches of New Mexico, published this highly engaging book in 1630 as his official report to the king of Spain. In 1625, Father Benavides and his party travelled north from Mexico City via creaking oxcart and mule back to reach the mission fields of New Mexico. A keen observer, Benavides described New Mexico as a strange land of frozen rivers, Indian citadels, and elusive mines full of silver and garnets. Benavides and his Franciscan brothers built schools, erected churches, engineered peace treaties, gazed in awe at endless miles of buffalo grazing placidly on the Great Plains, and were said to perform miracles. The most thorough and riveting account ever written of Southwestern life in the early seventeen century, A Harvest of Reluctant Souls is at once medieval and a tale of the Renaissance -- a portrait of the Pueblos, the Apaches, and the Navajos at a time of fundamental change in their lives.
Conquest and Catastrophe
Author: Elinore M. BarrettPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826324126
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A multifaceted reinterpretation of the Pueblo losses of settlements and population from 1540 until after reconquest at the end of the 1600s.
Quill and Cross in the Borderlands
Author: Anna M. NogarPublisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268102163
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Quill and Cross in the Borderlands examines nearly four hundred years of history, folklore, literature, and art concerning the seventeenth-century Spanish nun and writer Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, identified as the legendary “Lady in Blue” who miraculously appeared to tribes in colonial-era New Mexico and taught them the rudiments of the Catholic faith. Sor María, an author of mystical Marian works, became renowned not only for her alleged spiritual travel from her cloister in Spain to the New World, but also for her writing, studied and implemented by Franciscans on both sides of the ocean. Working from original historical accounts, archival research, and a wealth of literature on the legend and the historical figure alike, Anna M. Nogar meticulously examines how and why the legend and the person became intertwined in Catholic consciousness and social praxis. In addition to the influence of the narrative of the Lady in Blue in colonial Mexico, Nogar addresses Sor María’s importance as an author of spiritual texts that influenced many spheres of New Spanish and Spanish society. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands focuses on the reading and interpretation of her works, especially in New Spain, where they were widely printed and disseminated. Over time, in the developing folklore of the Indo-Hispano populations of the present-day U.S. Southwest and the borderlands, the historical Sor María and her writings virtually disappeared from view, and the Lady in Blue became a prominent folk figure, appearing in folk stories and popular histories. These folk accounts drew the Lady in Blue into the present day, where she appears in artwork, literature, theater, and public ritual. Nogar’s examination of these contemporary renderings leads to a reconsideration of the ambiguities that lie at the heart of the narrative. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands documents the material legacy of a legend that has survived and thrived for hundreds of years, and at the same time rediscovers the historical basis of a hidden writer. This book will interest scholars and researchers of colonial Latin American literature, early modern women writers, folklore and ethnopoetics, and Mexican American cultural studies.
Acculturation in the Navajo Eden
Author: Seymour H. KoenigPublisher: YBK Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 0976435918
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A treatise on the archaeology, history, ethnohistory, linguistics, and religion of the peoples of the Southwest-the Navajo, Keresans, Tanoans, Utes, Spaniards and Anglos, who are the tapestry of that land. This book is about people-where they lived, what they believed, and how they interacted with others. The chapters are entitled: The Navajo Eden: The Dinetah; The Eastern Ancestral Puebloans; The Spaniards Enter and Settle, 1540-1700; The Tanoan and Keresan Rio Grande Puebloans; Acculturation in the Dinetah; Keresan and Tanoan Religions and Societal Organizations; Navajo Origin Myth and Societal Organization; Protohistoric Rio Grande Ceremonialism; Gods of the Navajo Night Chant; Universal Female and Male Deities."
Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule
Author: Matthew BabcockPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316810704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
As a definitive study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz, this book explains how war-weary, mutually suspicious Apaches and Spaniards negotiated an ambivalent compromise after 1786 that produced over four decades of uneasy peace across the region. In response to drought and military pressure, thousands of Apaches settled near Spanish presidios in a system of reservation-like establecimientos, or settlements, stretching from Laredo to Tucson. Far more significant than previously assumed, the establecimientos constituted the earliest and most extensive set of military-run reservations in the Americas and served as an important precedent for Indian reservations in the United States. As a case study of indigenous adaptation to imperial power on colonial frontiers and borderlands, this book reveals the importance of Apache-Hispanic diplomacy in reducing cross-cultural violence and the limits of indigenous acculturation and assimilation into empires and states.
Kiva, Cross, and Crown
Author: John L. KessellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
A meticulous and engaging history of one of the largest and most powerful Pueblos. Richly illustrated with drawings from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.