Mesoamerican Indians in the Early Southwest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2741899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carroll L Riley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/481128 |
| OpenAlex | W2319759342 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
Beginning in the late 1530's, numbers of Mesoamerican Indians traveled to the Southwest with various Spanish parties. Some who came in 1540 with the Coronado expedition were still living with Pueblo Indians forty years later. We have the names and places of origin of a few of these Mesoamerican Indians. Their effect on Southwestern Pueblo Indians is difficult to evaluate but they probably helped to reinforce the Mesoamerican flavor of Pueblo culture, and also, inadvertently, to prepare Southwestern Indians for Spanish conquest. An important question in any study of the early Spanish period in the Southwest is that of contact between Southwestern and Mexican especially Mesoamerican Indians. That such contact occurred has long been known but the amount and kind of culture flow to the Southwest has never been properly evaluated. The question is further complicated by the fact that contacts between Mesoamerica and the Greater Southwest long predated the Spaniards and was long-term and complex in nature.' In this paper I shall not attempt a detailed analysis of Mexican-Southwestern Indian contact, but, rather, shall concentrate on evidence for actual Mexican individuals and groups that can be traced to the Southwest, and to indicate certain kinds of influence they may have had. First Spanish contact with the southern fringe of the Greater Southwest came with the Guzman expedition of 1530 and 1531. Sweeping up the west coast of Mexico, Guzman burned and looted his way through present-day Tepic and Sinaloa. In 1531 he reached the lower Culiacan River and established the settlement of San Miguel de Culiacan, originally on or near the river but soon moved to the lower San Lorenzo River a few miles to the south. Guzman himself eventually returned to Mexico City, but men left at San Miguel raided northward to the Mayo and perhaps the Yaqui valleys
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · CONQUEST · Ethnology · Geography · Mesoamerica · Period (music) · Settlement (finance) · Archaeology and Natural History · History · Latin American history and culture
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2017 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |