The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

202 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA colonial administration, but the ways that they responded—accepting some of these influences, re ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 203 But the native communities did survive through the Colonial period and in many ...

204 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 5.8 The members of Mexico City’s native cabildoreceive staffs of office, plus advice on g ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 205 At first, the traditional office of hereditary ruler was combined with the new ...

206 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Box 5.2 Ana Gets a New House Site: San Miguel Tocuillan, 1583 An unusually detailed Nahuatl reco ...

throughout the Colonial period. The nobility saw their wealth diminish as they lost control over resources to Spaniards and as c ...

208 Figure 5.9 These paintings from 1774 show the differences in dress between (A) Indian caciques,or members of the native elit ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 209 tury, women rarely pursued lawsuits in their own right but instead were represe ...

210 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA the farther people were from the centers of Spanish power, the greater the extent to which these ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 211 In a sense, the native people used these forms of ritual kinship, which were ap ...

212 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA the same time, pressures on land were also increasing, owing to larger Indian (and non-Indian) p ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 213 Figure 5.11 Two Nahua cantores,or choir members, rehearse their music in this n ...

214 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA during festivals. They acted in a general sense as mutual aid societies, caring for im- poverish ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 215 Figure 5.12 Title page from the first published Nahuatl account of the Our Lady ...

216 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA One final aspect of native religious life that needs to be addressed is the ritual use of alcoho ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 217 Native people who remained in the corporate communities faced an often di- mini ...

218 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Box 5.3 The Tzeltal Revolt, Chiapas, 1712 One day in May 1712, María López, a thirteen-year-old ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 219 The letter was signed, “The Most Holy Virgin Mary of the Cross.” That the cult ...

220 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA and captured Spanish weapons. With an Indian government installed in Tehuante- pec, the uprising ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 221 KELLOGG, SUSAN 1995 Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700.Norm ...