Native and Spanish new worlds : sixteenth-century entradas in the American southwest and southeast / edited by Clay Mathers, Jeffrey M. Mitchem, and Charles M. Haecker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mathers, Clay.

Mitchem, Jeffrey M.

Haecker, Charles M.

Series:

Amerind studies in anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Southwest, New--History--16th century.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Southern States--History--16th century.

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples--Southwest, New.

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples--Southern States.

Southwest, New--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

Southwest, New.

Southern States--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

Southern States.

Spain--Colonies--America.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spanish-led "entradas"--expeditions bent on the exploration and control of new territories--took place throughout the sixteenth century in what is now the southern United States. Although their impact was profound, both locally and globally, detailed analyses of these encounters are notably scarce. Focusing on several major themes--social, economic, political, military, environmental, and demographic--the contributions gathered here explore not only the cultures and peoples involved in these unique engagements but also the wider connections and disparities between these borderlands and the colonial world in general during the first century of Native-European contact in North America. Bringing together research from both the southwestern and southeastern United States, this book offers a comparative synthesis of Native-European contacts and their consequences in both regions. The chapters also engage at different scales of analysis, from locally based research to macro-level evaluations, using documentary, paleoclimatic, and regional archaeological data. No other volume assembles such a wide variety of archaeological, ethnohistorical, environmental, and biological information to elucidate the experience of Natives and Europeans in the early colonial world of Northern New Spain, and the global implications of entradas during this formative period in borderlands history.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Editors' Preface

1. Entradas in Context: Sixteenth- Century Indigenous and Imperial Trajectories in the American South - Clay Mathers and Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Section I. Native Perspectives

2. Crossing the Corn Line: Steps toward an Understanding of Zuni Communities and Entradas in the Sixteenth-Century Southwest - Kurt E. Dongoske and Cindy K. Dongoske

Section II. Historiography

3. Catch as Catch Can: The Evolving History of the Contact Period Southwest, 1838-Present - Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint

4. Contact Era Studies and the Southeastern Indians - Robbie Ethridge

Section III. Climatic Influences and Impacts

5. The Role of Climate in Early Spanish- Native AmericanInteractions in the US Southwest 81Carla R. Van West, Th omas C. Windes, Frances Levine,Henri D. Grissino- Mayer, and Matthew W. Salzer

6. The Factors of Climate and Weather in Sixteenth-Century La Florida - Dennis B. Blanton

Section IV. Disease

7. Regarding Sixteenth-Century Native Population Change in the Northern Southwest - Ann F. Ramenofsky and Jeremy Kulisheck

8. Entradas and Epidemics in the Sixteenth-Century Southeast - Dale L. Hutchinson

Section V. Political Organization

9. Sixteenth-Century Indigenous Settlement Dynamics in the Upper Middle Rio Grande Valley - Richard C. Chapman

10. The Interior South at the Time of Spanish Exploration - Robbie Ethridge and Jeffrey M. Mitchem

11. Inventing Florida: Constructing a Colonial Society in anIndigenous Landscape 189John E. Worth

Section VI. Conflict

12. Contest and Violence on the Northern Borderlands Frontier: Patterns of Native-European Conflict in the Sixteenth-Century Southwest - Clay Mathers

13. Conflict, Violence, and Warfare in La Florida - Christopher B. Rodning, Robin A. Beck, Jr., and David G. Moore

Section VII. Discussion.

14. Honor and Hierarchies: Long-Term Trajectories in the Pueblo and Mississippian Worlds - David Hurst Thomas

15. History, Prehistory, and the Contact Experience - Charles R. Ewen

Appendix A: Annual Values and Equivalent Z-Scores for the MRG Basin and San Francisco Peaks Chronologies

Notes

References Cited

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299384545

1299384544

9780816599851

0816599858

OCLC:

832316039