page_title: San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala
section_title: Tlaxcalan colonies
hierarchical_section_title: San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala / Tlaxcalan colonies
caption_attribution_description: This is a photo of a monument in Mexico, identified by ID 04777
context_page_description: San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala was a Tlaxcalan municipality in what is now the Mexican state of Coahuila. San Esteban was the northernmost of the six Tlaxcalan colonies established in 1591 at the behest of the Viceroy of New Spain, Luis de Velasco; its founders came from Tizatlan. In 1834, San Esteban was merged into the adjoining city of Saltillo.
  On the sparsely settled northeastern frontier of Mexico, menaced by hostile American Indians, the Tlaxcalans were allies of the Spanish settlers against the Indians of the region, but also stood apart with an independent society. San Esteban was often in legal controversies with the Spanish settlers of Saltillo.
context_section_description: San Esteban sent colonists to the nearby settlement of Parras in 1598 and in the 17th and 18th centuries sent colonists to a dozen other settlements menaced by hostile Indians.  The contingents of Tlaxcalans sent to help defend these places and pacify the local Indians usually numbered 10 to 14 families. Thus, Tlaxcalans were widely distributed along the northeastern frontier of Mexico. The Spanish government provided the colonists with tools and seeds and sometimes paid them cash for their collaboration. Tlaxcalan colonists continued to have the privileges they enjoyed in San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala.
caption: The San Esteban Cathedral is the oldest in Saltillo.[10]
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