Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State (Mesoamerican Worlds)

This book examines the formation of colonial governance in New Spain through interactions between indigenous people and representatives of the Spanish Crown. The book highlights the complexity of native negotiation and mediation with colonial rule across time, culture, and place and how it shaped colonial political and legal structures from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Although indigenous communities reacted to Spanish presence with significant acts of resistance and rebellion, they also turned to negotiation to deal with conflicts and ameliorate the consequences of colonial rule. This affected not only the development of legal systems in New Spain and Mexico but also the survival and continuation of traditional cultures. Bringing together work by Mexican and North American historians, this collection is a crucially important and rare contribution to the field. This is a valuable resource for native people as they seek to redefine and revitalise their identities and assert their rights relating to language and religion, ownership of lands and natural resources, rights of self-determination and self-government, and protection of cultural and intellectual property. It will be of interest primarily to specialists in the field of colonial studies and historians and ethno-historians of New Spain. Introduction: Back To The Future : Law, Politics, And Culture In Colonial Mexican Ethnohistorical Studies / Susan Kellogg -- Empire, Indians, And The Negotiation For The Status Of City In Tlaxcala, 1521-1550 / R. Jovita Baber -- Fighting Destiny : Nahua Nobles And Friars In The Sixteenth-century Revolt Of The Encomenderos Against The King / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano -- Indigenous Centurions And Triumphal Arches : Negotiation In Eighteenth-century Mexico City / Edward W. Osowski -- The Power Of The Law : The Construction Of Colonial Power In An Indigenous Region / María De Los Ángeles Romero Frizzi -- Costumbre : A Language Of Negotiation In Eighteenth-century Oaxaca / Yanna P. Yannakakis -- Peace Agreements And War Signals : Negotiations With The Apaches And Comanches In The Interior Provinces Of New Spain, 1784-1788 / Cuauhtémoc Velasco Ávila -- Waterways, Legal Ways, And Ethnic Interactions : The Ríos District Of Tabasco During The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries / José Manuel A. Chávez-gómez -- Afterword: The Consequences Of Negotiation / Susan Kellogg. Edited By Ethelia Ruiz Medrano And Susan Kellogg. Includes Bibliographical References (p.233-251) And Index. Although indigenous communities reacted to Spanish presence with significant acts of resistance and rebellion, they also turned to negotiation to deal with conflicts and ameliorate the consequences of colonial rule. This affected not only the development of legal systems in New Spain and Mexico but also the survival and continuation of traditional cultures. Bringing together work by Mexican and North American historians, this collection is a crucially important and rare contribution to the field. Negotiation within Domination is a valuable resource for native peoples as they seek to redefine and revitalize their identities and assert their rights relating to language and religion, ownership of lands and natural resources, rights of self-determination and self-government, and protection of cultural and intellectual property. It will be of interest primarily to specialists in the field of colonial studies and historians and ethnohistorians of New Spain. Contributors : R. Jovita Baber, José Manuel A. Chávez-Gómez, Susan Kellogg, Edward W. Osowski, María de los Ángeles Romero Frizzi, Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, Cuauhtémoc Velasco Ávila, Yanna P. Yannakakis Contents......Page 8 Tables and Map......Page 10 Foreword......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 18 Introduction—Back to the Future......Page 22 2: Empire, Indians, and the Negotiation for the Status of City in Tlaxcala, 1521–1550......Page 40 3: Fighting Destiny......Page 66 4: Indigenous Centurions and Triumphal Arches......Page 100 5: The Power of the Law......Page 128 6: Costumbre......Page 158 7: Peace Agreements and War Signals......Page 194 8: Waterways, Legal Ways, and Ethnic Interactions......Page 226 Afterword......Page 250 Bibliography......Page 254 Contributors......Page 274 Index......Page 276 Negotiation within Domination examines the formation of colonial governance in New Spain through interactions between indigenous peoples and representatives of the Spanish Crown. The book highlights the complexity of native negotiation and mediation with colonial rule across time, culture, and place and how it shaped colonial political and legal structures from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Although indigenous communities reacted to Spanish presence with significant acts of resistance and rebellion, they also turned to negotiation to deal with conflicts and ameliorate the cons