Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya

Of the five groups of indigenous people in the area of present-day eastern Sinaloa, northern Durango, and southern Chichuahua, Mexico, two survived Spanish colonial rule imposed beginning in the 16th century. The Tepehuanes and Tarahumaras remained after two centuries of rule; the Xiximes, Acaxees, and Conchos did not. Drawing on extensive research in the colonial-era mission archives (native language sources for these groups are virtually non-existent), Deeds (history, Northern Arizona U.) pieces together an ethnohistory of these peoples in an effort to document and explain cultural survival as well as demise. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR