Pueblos, plains and province: New Mexico in the seventeenth century

Includes bibliographical references and index.Copyright date is 2021.Offers an in-depth examination of sociopolitical conflict in seventeenth-century New Mexico, detailing the effects of Spanish colonial policies on settlers', missionaries', and Indigenous peoples' struggle for economic and cultural control of the region. Explores the rich archival documentation that provides cultural, linguistic, and legal views of the period's values.--Provided by publisher.Pueblos, plains and early Spanish explorers -- Strangers on New Mexico's eastern plains -- The land of disenchantment: New Mexico's starvation period, 1598-1609 -- Death on the Great Plains: Jusepe and the ill-fated Leiva de Bonilla Expedition -- The big clash: Acoma and the Jumano War, 1599-1601 -- Oñate's exploration of the Great Plains, 1601 -- The case against Juan de Oñate and Vicente de Zaldíva -- Pedro de Peralta and the founding of Santa Fe, 1609-1613 -- Showdown in Santa Fe: the Peralta-Ordoñez feud, 1613-1614 -- La Custodia de la Conversión de San Pablo: early New Mexico missions, 1614-1625 -- Benavides' halation of New Mexico: Pueblo and Great Plains evangelists -- Governors, missionaries, kachinas and the Holy Office of the Inquisition, 1634-1659 -- El Alemán and the New Mexican inquisition of 1668 -- Revolt and reconquest: New Mexico, 1680-1692