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Conflict in Colonial Sonora : Indians, Priests, and Settlers /

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groups--Indians, religious orders of priests, and settlers. Priests hoped to pacify Indians, who in turn resisted the missionary clergy. Settlers, who often encountered oppos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yetman, David, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1: Pedro de Perea, His Heirs, and the Colonization of Sonora; 2: Father Canal Calls in the Troops; 3: The Conspiracies of 1681; 4: Sorcery in Eastern Sonora; 5: Father Guerrero Nails Simón García; 6: Father Januske and the Indians Take On the Vecinos and Their Livestock; 7: Sonora in 1771: Does the Conflict Deepen or Subside?; Appendix: The Tuape Indians' Legal Struggle to Regain Their Lands; Notes; Glossary; References; Index; Back Cover.