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

262 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Substantial salaries as well as access to their own family networks through intermar- riage. In ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 263 whelming majority of the population. In contrast, the newly arrived científic ...

264 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA eroded communities or indirectly via the haciendas and plantations. Great numbers fled to the an ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 265 since by the time of independence, there were over two million mestizos and a ...

266 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 7.5 Mural painting of Miguel Hidalgo and his band of followers. Mural by Juan O’Gorman. C ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 267 Box 7.1 Napoleon, the Great Horned Serpent Developments in Spain during the p ...

268 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA sympathetic to the rebel cause. Next the Spaniards marched on Guadalajara, which Hidalgo decided ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 269 Indians were attracted to Hidalgo’s movement and had considerably less to los ...

270 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA later would become the center of the Mexican revolution, the Nahuatl-speaking In- dians there re ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 271 sisted attempts by Spanish and Crown officials to force them to comply. Rebel ...

272 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Box 7.2 The Atanasio Tzul Rebellion As with so many other native uprisings in Guatemala of the t ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 273 The Tzul rebellion, like others from this time period in Central America, was ...

274 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Mesoamerican Indians’ culture was based more on traditional Mesoamerican prin- ciples, and in so ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 275 to be seen more in cultural than in racial terms. The Mexican mestizo was sai ...

276 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Box 7.3 Benito Juárez, Mexico’s Greatest Indian Hero Benito Juárez was born into a Zapotec India ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 277 Figure 7.6 Porfirio Díaz, mestizo caudillo and liberal dictator of Mexico. Ja ...

278 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 7.7 Rafael Carrera, conservative dictator of Guatemala. Source unknown. programs were rep ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 279 Following independence, the Momostenango Indians rallied behind the mes- tizo ...

280 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 7.8 Parade of local police and militia in the town center of Momostenango, 1968. Photogra ...

281 Box 7.4 Tepoztlán, Mexico, and the Liberal Reforms The anthropologist Oscar Lewis’s classic account of Tepoztlán, Mexico, Li ...