From Contact to Colony at the Edge of the Tiguex Province

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The first accounts of the Rio Grande Valley were made by outsiders on the Vázquez de Coronado expedition in 1540. Their descriptions regularly focused on the river valley and its associated settlements even though other surrounding areas were well settled at that time. By exploring texts written during the earliest explorations, the relationship between riverine pueblos and those located in the Sandia Mountains, its foothills, and passes such as Tijeras Canyon can be better understood as a single system and not separate geographic areas. The pueblos in the former Tiguex Province first described by Coronado, and others in nearby areas such as the Sandias, Tijeras Canyon, and other provinces to the north and south are examined in a whole context. Changes in population dynamics, village size, and reactions to the first contact and subsequent attempts at colonization and missionization are explored. Native responses, movements, resistance, and the effects of early colonial policies throughout the greater middle Rio Grande basin are discussed.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36768.0