Missionaries, Miners, and Indians Spanish Contact with the Yaqui Nation of Northwestern New Spain, 1533-1820

• Main Author: Hu-DeHart, Evelyn (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Arizona Press 1981
• Subjects: Humanities; History of the Americas; History; Latin American Studies; American Indian Studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The Yaqui Indians managed to avoid assimilation during the Spanish colonization of Mexico. Even when mining interests sought to wrest Yaqui labor from the control of the Jesuits who had organized Indian society into an agricultural system, the Yaqui themselves sought primarily to ensure their contin...