These people have always been a republic : indigenous electorates in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, 1598-1912 /

By focusing on this long history, Maurice Crandall demonstrates how Indigenous peoples absorbed, adapted, or eschewed colonially imposed forms of electoral politics and exercised political sovereignty based on local needs. In doing so, this study compares and contrasts not only Spanish, Mexican and...

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Main Author: Crandall, Maurice (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
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Summary:By focusing on this long history, Maurice Crandall demonstrates how Indigenous peoples absorbed, adapted, or eschewed colonially imposed forms of electoral politics and exercised political sovereignty based on local needs. In doing so, this study compares and contrasts not only Spanish, Mexican and American conceptions of Indian citizenship, but also the differences among indigenous groups that populated what became the states of Arizona and New Mexico. Crandall's work represents a significant contribution to the fields of indigenous political rights and legal status in the American Southwest, as well as Indian-Hispano and Indian-Anglo relations in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.
Physical Description:x, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469652658
146965265X
9781469652665
1469652668