Legacies of Resistance, Adaptation, and Tenacity: History of the Native Peoples of Northwest Mexico

Deeds, Susan M.; Adams, Richard E.; MacLeod, Murdo J.

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“…In all three cases, our results strongly suggest a biological relationship related to cultural connections between Spanish and their most frequently used indigenous allies. Population replacements may have been facilitated by way of utilizing indigenous auxiliaries and warriors for conquest and maintaining social order (Matthew, & Oudijk, ; Restall, ), relocating whole families of settlers to reinforce examples of compliant colonized groups (Deeds, ) or facilitating migration through other economic or political opportunities reserved for allied indigenous groups. There may have also been more migration opportunity to places such as Mexico City, the center of New Spain, for allied indigenous towns devastated by disease.…”

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“…STRUCTURE analyzes the data set to determine the optimal number of groups that represent the data set, or Delta K. -Smith, 2000;Lovell, 1992;Mantecón, 1994). (Matthew, & Oudijk, 2007;Restall, 2001), relocating whole families of settlers to reinforce examples of compliant colonized groups (Deeds, 2000) or facilitating migration through other economic or political opportunities reserved for allied indigenous groups. There may have also been more migration opportunity to places such as Mexico City, the center of New Spain, for allied indigenous towns devastated by disease.…”

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“…In many cases, these military forces consisted of indigenous auxiliaries, likely from Spanish allied groups (Matthew, & Oudijk, ). The Spanish also brought their allied Tlaxcalan and Tarascan settlers as examples of indigenous conformity (Deeds, ). With the large number of indigenous allies used in the conquest and colonization of New Spain, there is opportunity for long‐distance migration as well as potential for at least partial population replacement.…”

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Changes in indigenous population structure in colonial Mexico City and Morelos

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The Spanish conquest and colonization of Mexico had disastrous effects on indigenous people. Disease, coupled with drastic changes in the economic, political, and religious structures, led to an enormous depopulation event throughout the colony of New Spain. What remains unclear in historic and archeological accounts of Spanish colonization in Mexico is the effects of these changes on indigenous population structure and variation. In this study, we use biological distance and population structure analyses of two Mexico City church ossuary samples from the 16th to 17th centuries, as well as a sample of burials from a convent in nearby Morelos, to investigate these relationships at the center of the Spanish colony in Central Mexico. Colonial samples are compared with a large data set of precontact samples from Central Mexico and the surrounding regions, to evaluate changes in population structures. We compare colonial and precontact samples using biological distance analysis and a population structure program commonly applied in genetic analyses and modified for phenotypic data. Our results show that the colonial Mexico City samples are more biologically similar to the precontact samples from Veracruz, Toluca Valley, and West Mexico than to other precontact samples from the Valley of Mexico. The sample from Yecapixtla in Morelos is also most similar to the Veracruz, Toluca Valley, and West Mexico samples but is also somewhat similar to the precontact sample from Morelos and the nearby Oaxaca Valley. Generally, biological similarities among colonial samples and precontact samples do not correlate with geographic proximity or population size but coincide with cultural changes. Our study provides bioarcheological evidence of some degree of population replacement, resulting either from forced migration from surrounding areas for labor or through indigenous alliances with the Spanish conquerors. Our results also show concordance between traditional biodistance analysis and nontraditional analyses employed in population genetics studies.

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The Yoreme Creation of Itom Ania in Northwestern Mexico: Histories of Cultural Landscapes

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2023

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Language, traditional ecological knowledge, and the defense of territory come together in this chapter focused on the Yoreme communities of the Mayo river basin of northwestern Mexico. Language plays a fundamental role in our interpretation of the rich archival sources that allow us to comprehend the deeply rooted knowledge base that Indigenous peoples developed from their material and spiritual worlds. It is also an essential part of the living histories we construct in collaboration with the Indigenous peoples that maintain their traditions in a radically transformed ecological region through their ritual cycles and collective memories. The analysis of changes in land tenure and use presented here privileges Indigenous knowledge of landforms, biological species, and the cultural values that the communities of this region ascribed to the physical features and the territorial extension of the spaces they inhabited and defended. Its objectives seek to highlight the parallel production of oral and written sources and to contribute an historical analysis that is useful for the Yoreme communities in their present-day defense of their territory and its resources.

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Legacies of Resistance, Adaptation, and Tenacity: History of the Native Peoples of Northwest Mexico

Cited by 21 publications

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Changes in indigenous population structure in colonial Mexico City and Morelos

Changes in indigenous population structure in colonial Mexico City and Morelos

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The Yoreme Creation of Itom Ania in Northwestern Mexico: Histories of Cultural Landscapes

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