Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1. Native Agency at the Margins of Empire: Indigenous Landscapes, Spanish Missions, and Contested Histories 5 Tsim D. Schneider and Lee M. Panich Part I. Power, Politics, and Belief 2. The Guale Uprising of 1597: An Archaeological Perspective from Mission Santa Catalina de Guale (Georgia) 25 Elliot H. Blair and David Hurst Thomas 3. Missionization, Negotiation, and Belief: The Role of the Acuera Chiefdom in Colonial Seventeenth-Century Florida 41 Willet A. Boyer III 4. Missions Untenable: Experiences of the Hasinai Caddo and the Spanish in East Texas 57 Paul Shawn Marceaux and Mariah F. Wade Part II. External Connections 5. Who Were the Guale?: Reevaluating Interaction in the Mission Town of San Joseph de Sapala 79 Christopher R. Moore and Richard W. Jefferies 6. “Countless Heathens”: Native Americans and the Spanish Missions of Southern Texas and Northeastern Coahuila 93 Tamra L. Walter and Thomas R. Hester 7. Indigenous Landscapes: Mexicanized Indians and the Archaeology of Social Networks in Alta California 114 Rubén G. Mendoza vi Contents Part III. Outside the Mission Walls 8. Depriving God and the King of the Means of Charity: Early Nineteenth-Century Missionaries’ Views of Cattle Ranchers near Mission La Purísima, California 135 Glenn J. Farris 9. Points of Refuge in the South Central California Colonial Hinterlands 154 Julienne Bernard, David Robinson, and Fraser Sturt 10. Toward a Historical Ecology of the Mission in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico 172 Mark T. Lycett Conclusion: Reflections on Spanish Missions in the Native Landscape 11. A Cubist Perspective of Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions 191 Kent G. Lightfoot References Cited 209 Contributors 244 Index 250 ...