Conflict and Accommodation in Colonial New Mexico

Embracing an argument-based model for teaching history, the Debating American History series encourages students to participate in a contested, evidence-based discourse about the human past. Each book poses a question that historians debate--How democratic was the US constitution? Why did civil war erupt in the United States in 1861?--and provides abundant primary sources so that students can make their own efforts at interpreting the evidence. They can then use that analysis to construct answers to the big question that frames the debate and argue in support of their position.

Conflict and Accommodation in Colonial New Mexico poses this big question: How completely did the Spanish empire extend its control into the northern Rio Grande region in the 17th century?

Jonathan DeCoster holds a PhD in American History from Brandeis University. He is an Assistant Professor of History at Otterbein University, where he teaches early American history, Native American history, and Integrative Studies.

List of Maps and Figures
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. The Big Question
Glossary
II. Timeline
III. Historian's Conversations
Position #1: Spaniards Successfully Imposed Colonialism on Pueblos
Position #2 : Pueblos Resisted Spanish Colonialism
IV. Debating the Question
A. Ancestral Pueblo Culture
Kathryn Kamp, Life in the Pueblo
Paul F. Reed, "Chacoan Society at 1100 C.E.: A Static View"
Images of Ancestral Pueblo Culture
B. Pueblo Religion
Hopi Emergence Stories
C. Spanish Legal Institutions
The Requerimiento
The New Laws of 1542
Laws Concerning Discoveries, Pacifications, and Settlements Among the Indians
Directory for Confessors: Lords Who Have Temporal Government Over Their Vassals
The City Council of Huejotzingo, Mexico, to King Philip
D. Encounters along the Rio Grande
Testimony of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado on the Management of the Expedition
Act of Obedience and Vassalage by the Indians of Acoma
Proceedings at Acoma, Decree, Petition, Sentence
Pueblo Encounters with Plains Indians
E. Missionaries
Rule of the Franciscan Order
José Acosta, How to Provide for the Salvation of the Indians
Audiencia of New Granada, Investigation into Idolatry at Iguaque
F. Colonial New Mexico
Two Depictions of the Poverty of New Mexico
Fray Estévan de Perea, Truthful Report of the Magnificent Conversion Which Has Been Had in New Mexico
Uwaikwiota, Hopi Slaves in Santa Fe
Fray Benavides on The New Mexico Missions
Matthew Liebmann, "Life Under the Mission Bell"
G. Pueblo Revolt
Spanish Records of the Pueblo Revolt
Modern Native Recollections of the Pueblo Revolt
H. Restoration
The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1691-1692
Armed Reconnaissance and Ritual Repossession by Diego de Vargas of Santa Fe and Twelve Pueblos of the Tewa, Tano, and Taos Indians (August 9-October 16, 1692)
The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-1694
Letter from Fray Francisco de Vargas to the Commissary General of New Spain
Letter from Fray Francisco de Vargas to the Father Guardian at El Paso
I. Modern Perspectives
Homer Cooyama, "Oraibi Before the Split" (July, 1970)
Nuvayoiyava (Albert Yava), "Hopi Religion and the Missionaries"
The Pueblo Revolt as the First American Revolution
Amputation of Od"nate Statue's Foot
V. Reference Materials
VI. Additional Resources
Index