“Having Many Wives” in Two American Rebellions: The Politics of Households and the Radically Conservative

Pearsall, Sarah M. S.

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“…And yet, the selected object itineraries reflect remarkably comparable conflicts and legacies, dramatically underscoring the colonial reality that "messages of violence were directed at other indigenous people, not simply the Spanish" (Pearsall 2013(Pearsall :1017). Church bells were murdered at Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de Pórciuncula (Pecos Pueblo) and at Mission Santa Catalina de Guale (St. Catherines Island)-eighty-three years and 2,500 miles apart-but the perpetrators were not locals fed up with living under these bell.…”

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“…In this way, the caciques positioned themselves to receive tribute from both the Spaniards and their own people. "In effect, Spanish Florida became a sort of modified paramount chiefdom through which the chiefly matrilineages of destabilized chiefdoms bolstered their own internal power by subordinating themselves to the Spanish crown" (Worth 2002:46; see also Pearsall 2013).…”

Section: Tribute Materiality and The Trappings Of Chiefly Powermentioning

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“…Until very recently, Borderlands historiographers have been unanimous in accepting Oré's reading of this event as a violent indigenous revolt against Spanish rule-basically an unsuccessful southeastern rehearsal of the Pueblo Revolt that would play out eight decades later. Virtually all modern treatments of the 1597 unpleasantness emphasize Franciscan interference in Guale affairs and missionary opposition to the practice of polygamy (Pearsall 2013). This historiography singles out a Guale Indian named Don Juan as the principal leader against the Spanish, and in most recent accounts of the episode, it is simply referred to as "Juanillo's revolt" (e.g., Gannon 1965;Hoffman 2002;Lanning 1935).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Extensive new documentary and archaeological research has demonstrated that the Guale uprising of 1597 was not an indigenous rebellion against Spanish authority at all (Blair and Thomas 2014;Francis and Kole 2011;Thomas 2013aThomas , 2013b; see also Pearsall 2013;Worth 2002Worth , 2013aWorth , 2013b. Instead, the root cause of unrest actually reflects the underlying tensions and conflicts between indigenous chiefdoms competing for favored status within La Florida.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…. both women and men helped to create this new world out of old forms" (Pearsall 2013(Pearsall :1026.…”

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New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: A Brief Introduction to the Colonial Period in the American Southwest

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2017

New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest

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With the Columbian Quincentenary just a few years off, the Society of American Archaeology (SAA) puzzled its role in anticipating the inevitable events that would surround the 500th anniversary of European-Native American interactions. I was a member of the Executive Committee of the SAA at the time, and the president asked me spearhead the society's efforts for observing the Columbian Quincentenary.Thanks to the support and encouragement of key SAA officers Don Fowler, Prudence Rice, Bruce Smith, and Jerry Sabloff, we were able to develop a plan. After exploring a number of options with the board, we settled upon a series of topical seminars that we dubbed Columbian Consequences.These nine public seminars, to be held over a three-year span, were designed to generate an accurate and factual assessment of what did-and what did not-transpire as a result of the Columbian encounter. We specifically tasked ourselves to probe the social, demographic, ecological, ideological, and human repercussions of European-Native American encounters across the Spanish Borderlands, spreading the word among both the scholarly community and the greater public at large.Although sponsored by the SAA, the Columbian Consequences enterprise rapidly transcended the traditional scope of archaeological inquiry, drawing together a diverse assortment of personalities and perspectives. We invited leading scholars of the day to synthesize current thinking about specific geographical settings across the Spanish Borderlands, which extend from St. Augustine (Florida) to San Francisco (California). Each overview was designed to provide a Native American context, a history of European involvement, and a summary of scholarly research.The structure was fairly simple. Each of three consecutive SAA annual meetings (in 1988, 1989, and 1990) hosted three Columbian Consequences seminars. The resulting three volumes were published by the Smithsonian Institution Press, which remarkably published each volume less than a year after the seminar papers were presented.The initial book, entitled Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West (Thomas 1989), tackled the European-Native American interface from the Pacific Slope across the southwestern heartland to East Texas, from Russian Fort Ross to southern Baja California. The archaeologists involved addressed material culture evidence regarding contact period sociopolitics, economics, iconography, and physical environment. Other authors attempted to provide a critical balance from the perspectives of American history, Native American studies, art history, ethnohistory, and geography.In the intermediate volume-Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East (Thomas 1990)-nearly three dozen scholars pursued a similar agenda across La Florida, the greater Southeast, and the Caribbean.

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Section: Putting the Bell Into Rebellionmentioning

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Section: Tribute Materiality and The Trappings Of Chiefly Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Tribute Materiality and The Trappings Of Chiefly Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Tribute Materiality and The Trappings Of Chiefly Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…. both women and men helped to create this new world out of old forms" (Pearsall 2013(Pearsall :1026.…”

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Devouring the empire: the Pijaos’ anticolonial project in the sixteenth-century northern Andes

Muñoz-Arbeláez

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Sanctuaryscapes in the North American Southwest

Villarreal¹

2019

Radical History Review

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This article reclaims the historicity and sanctity of sanctuary as a dynamic cultural and spiritual practice and Indigenous survival strategy cultivated in regions of refuge and rebellion in the Americas. Tracing heterogeneous configurations of sanctuary in the North American Southwest during the Spanish colonial period, it compares the institution of church asylum with cross-tribal Indigenous sanctuary place-making and traditions of radical hospitality. As Indigenous people became refugees in their own homeland they capitalized on their knowledge of the landscape and banded with other persecuted and displaced peoples in “sanctuaryscapes,” vast autonomous regions and insurgent urban centers where new pan-Indigenous solidarities and identities emerged. Locating sanctuary practices within specific regional cartographies and social relations substantiates diverse autochthonous traditions of sanctuary that dramatically reorient and revitalize the origin stories that animate and also validate contemporary sanctuary movements and practices.

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“Having Many Wives” in Two American Rebellions: The Politics of Households and the Radically Conservative

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New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: A Brief Introduction to the Colonial Period in the American Southwest

New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: A Brief Introduction to the Colonial Period in the American Southwest

Devouring the empire: the Pijaos’ anticolonial project in the sixteenth-century northern Andes

Sanctuaryscapes in the North American Southwest

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