Author: Philip Wayne PowellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Chichimecs
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Soldiers, Indians and silver
Author: Philip Wayne PowellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Chichimecs
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Soldiers, Indians & Silver
Author: Philip Wayne PowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Soldiers, Indians & silver
Author: Philip W. PowellSoldiers, Indians & Silver
Author: Philip Wayne PowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chichimecs
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Soldiers, Indians, & Silver
Author: Philip Wayne PowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chichimecs
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Soldiers, Indians & Silver
Author: Philip Wayne PowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chichimecs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Our Savage Neighbors
Author: Peter Rhoads SilverPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393334906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
In potent, graceful prose that sensitively unearths the social complexity and tangled history of colonial relations, Silver presents an astonishingly vivid picture of 18th-century America. 13 illustrations; 2 maps.
Gold, Silver, and Guns
Author: George E. SmithPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595460844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Life isn't easy in the 1860s on the western frontier as the discovery of gold and silver beckons prospectors, and the promise of cheap land attracts ranchers and farmers from the East Coast. It is a time of greed, lawlessness, self-preservation, and opportunity. The wayward Tom Lawson seizes the moment when he discovers a cache of silver near the town of Ribera in southern Arizona, between El Paso and Tucson. When the Lawson family receives word of Tom's silver strike, his brother Ben must decide whether to begin his medical career as planned or assist his brother. Reluctant but enticed, Ben moves from Colorado to Arizona to help his sibling. On the stagecoach ride from El Paso to Ribera, he and the other passengers are robbed. It becomes all too evident that the territory is under constant threat by Indians, renegade discharged Confederate soldiers, and disenfranchised Mexicans. Gold, Silver, and Guns follows the stories of Ben and five others who migrate to Ribera seeking adventure and fortune. As they discover that life in this agitated small town may pose challenges and risks far greater than the rewards, they each must weigh the price of what it takes to survive and prosper.
The Forgotten Diaspora
Author: Travis JeffresPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496236432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In The Forgotten Diaspora Travis Jeffres explores how Native Mexicans involved in the conquest of the Greater Southwest pursued hidden agendas, deploying a covert agency that enabled them to reconstruct Indigenous communities and retain key components of their identities even as they were technically allied with and subordinate to Spaniards. Resisting, modifying, and even flatly ignoring Spanish directives, Indigenous Mexicans in diaspora co-created the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and laid enduring claims to the region. Jeffres contends that tens of thousands—perhaps hundreds of thousands—of central Mexican Natives were indispensable to Spanish colonial expansion in the Greater Southwest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These vital allies populated frontier settlements, assisted in converting local Indians to Christianity, and provided essential labor in the mining industry that drove frontier expansion and catapulted Spain to global hegemony. However, Nahuatl records reveal that Indigenous migrants were no mere auxiliaries to European colonial causes; they also subverted imperial aims and pursued their own agendas, wresting lands, privileges, and even rights to self-rule from the Spanish Crown. Via Nahuatl-language “hidden transcripts” of Native allies’ motivations and agendas, The Forgotten Diaspora reimagines this critical yet neglected component of the hemispheric colonial-era scattering of the Americas’ Indigenous peoples.
Urban Indians in a Silver City
Author: Dana Velasco MurilloPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804799644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns that led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and frontier institutions. Within these towns, the need for labor, raw materials, resources, and foodstuffs brought together an array of different ethnic and social groups—Spaniards, Indians, Africans, and ethnically mixed individuals or castas. On the northern edge of the empire, 350 miles from Mexico City, sprung up Zacatecas, a silver-mining town that would grow in prominence to become the "Second City of New Spain." Urban Indians in a Silver City illuminates the social footprint of colonial Mexico's silver mining district. It reveals the men, women, children, and families that shaped indigenous society and shifts the view of indigenous peoples from mere laborers to settlers and vecinos (municipal residents). Dana Velasco Murillo shows how native peoples exploited the urban milieu to create multiple statuses and identities that allowed them to live in Zacatecas as both Indians and vecinos. In reconsidering traditional paradigms about ethnicity and identity among the urban Indian population, she raises larger questions about the nature and rate of cultural change in the Mexican north.