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

242 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Box 6.2 The Prayer to the Rain God Tlaloc The following excerpt describes the earth languishing ...

CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 243 Ruiz de Alarcón arrested and punished Nahua religious practitioner ...

She then threatens the serpent with the water she is about to use to wash the eye. “Jade-Skirted One” is the Nahuatl name for th ...

CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 245 But now we shall glue it, We shall heal it. (Coe and Whittaker 198 ...

246 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA sacristan at a small church. He based his writings on older documents and on inter- views with r ...

CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 247 When our Lord Cortés first arrived with a crowd of white people, h ...

248 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA These documents are an excellent source of insight into how native people viewed their own histo ...

CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 249 INDO-CHRISTIAN LITERATURE During the Colonial period, a tremendous ...

250 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA theatrical “Golden Age” or the story of Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe. Pas- sion plays br ...

CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 251 the things of youth, who go about speaking of and thinking of thei ...

252 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA creating a lucrative export industry. But in 1553, the town council of Tlaxcala met to discuss t ...

CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 253 differences; by reading their declarations of Christian faith and ...

254 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA HASKETT, ROBERT 2005 Visions of Paradise: Primordial Ti- tles and Mesoamerican History in Cuerna ...

255 CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA Any effort to synthesize the neocolonial history of the Mesoamerican Indians— ...

256 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA peoples of the region could draw in their struggle to survive as ethnically distinct peoples wit ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 257 Figure 7.1 Political divisions of Mexico and Central America shortly after In ...

258 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 7.2 Spreading coffee beans for drying on a Guatemalan plantation in the nineteenth centur ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 259 holding interests. The political expression of centralist elements was also c ...

260 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 7.4 Justo Rufino Barrios, the Liberal strongman of Guatemala. Source unknown. diminished ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 261 The social and economic relations between city and countryside became pro- gr ...