Headmen and War Chanters
Role Theory and the Early Canyoncito Navajo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2740784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald J Kurtz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83 |
| Publication date | 1969-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/480944 |
| OpenAlex | W2333815266 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Canyoncito Indians,2 a Navajo group, have resided almost continuously, from the 16th century to the present, in the territory around Mount Taylor and the Cebolleta Mountains in New Mexico.3 From the late 18th century until 1863 the Canyoncito were in the dilemma of being dependent on and attracted to three alien cultures, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American, in that order, at the same time striving to maintain a traditional life and traditional social attachments. They and certain alien Indian groups, with whom friendly relationships usually obtained, also shared lands. The Spaniards first contacted the Canyoncito in 1583. At that time the Canyoncito were agricultural people who had regular trade relations at least with the nearby Pueblo people of Acoma. Early in the 17th Century they began hostilities with the invading Spaniards which continued into the beginning of the 18th century. They often cooperated with neighboring Pueblo Indians against the Spanish and harbored them in times of trouble. Some items of Spanish materi al culture were accepted, and hostilities with the Spanish required a more cohesive territorial unit than the earlier scattered settlements. Yet, in 1720, Canyoncito culture diverged little from general Navajo culture. 4 The period from 1720 to 1821 changed the situation of the Canyoncito in important ways. After an unsuccessful missionary attempt from 1746 to 1750, the Spaniards intruded peacefully into all parts of the Mount Taylor massif, and the Laguna Indians were expanding from the south. These
Genealogy · Linguistics · Navajo · Archaeology and Natural History · History · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2015 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |