Spaniards, Indians, and landscapes: indigenous peoples and Spanish expeditions on New Spain's northern frontier

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Title Spaniards, Indians, and landscapes: indigenous peoples and Spanish expeditions on New Spain's northern frontier
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Humanities
Department History
Author Richardson, Cory Brent
Date 2009-05-05
Description Indigenous peoples played a central and indispensable role in Spanish expeditions into New Spain's northern frontier. Throughout the colonial period, expeditions ranging from Panfilo de Narvaez in 1528, to Pedro Vial in 1792, relied on Indigenous peoples as guides, interpreters, and, most importantly, as sources of information on food, water, and mineral resources available in the areas through which they traveled. Although Indians played a vital role in Spanish expeditions throughout the colonial period, the ways in which Spaniards interacted with Indigenous peoples changed dramatically between the sixteenth century and late eighteenth century as a result of cultural, military, and economic factors. While the roles of Indians in facilitating entradas remained the same, the development of a system of interdependency and alliance transformed the nature of Spanish-Native relations. To illustrate this key difference, this paper compares the role of Indigenous peoples in expeditions led by Panfilo de Narvaez (1528), Hernando de Soto (1539), and Francisco Vazquez de Coronado (1540), in the early colonial period, to those of Juan Maria Antonio de Rivera (1765), Juan Bautista de Anza (1774), Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante (1776), and Pedro Vial (1792) in the late colonial period.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Spanish-Native relations; Narvaez, Panfilo de; Soto, Hernando de
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MA
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Spaniards, Indians, and landscapes: indigenous peoples and Spanish expeditions on New Spain's northern frontier" J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections F1401.5 2009 .R53
Rights Management ©Cory Brent Richardson
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Source Original: University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
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