Indian conquistadors
Subtitle: indigenous allies in the conquest of Mesoamerica
By: edited by Laura Matthew and Michel R. Oudijk.
Contributors: Matthew, Laura.; Oudijk, Michel R.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780806138541
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Government relations; Indians of Central America -- Government relations; New Spain -- History, Military -- 16th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The genre of conquest studies /  Susan Schroeder; title: Mesoamerican conquistadors in the sixteenth century / Michel R. Oudijk and Matthew Restall; title: The conquest in images : stories of Tlaxcalteca and Quauhquecholteca conquistadors / Florine G. L. Asselbergs; title: Whose conquest? : Nahua, Zapoteca, and Mixtec auxiliaries in the conquest of Central America / Laura Matthew; title: Concubines and wives : reinterpreting native-Spanish intimate unions in sixteenth-century Guatemala / Robinson A. Herrera; title: Conquest, coercion, and indigenous allies : the role of "indios amigos" in the campaigns in New Galicia, 1530-1541 / Ida Altman; title: Forgotten allies : the origins and roles of native Mesoamerican auxiliaries and indios conquistadores in the Conquest of Yucatan, 1526-1550 / John F. Chuchiak IV; title: The indios conquistadores of Oaxaca's Sierra Norte : from Indian conquerors to local Indians, 1523-1770 /  Yanna Yannakakis; title: Nahua Christian warriors in the Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco, Cholula Parish / Stephanie Wood; title: "By the force of their lives and the spilling of blood" : flechero service and political leverage on the New Galicia frontier, 1590-1785 / Bret Blosser.