The Tepehuan Revolt of 1616: Militarism, Evangelism, and Colonialism in Seventeenth-Century Nueva Vizcaya

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Author: Gradie, Charlote M.

Publisher: University of Utah Press

Pub Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  Gilt on front board and spine sharp, easily readable.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes:  By 1590, the Spanish considered the Tepehuan “pacified”, and many had settled in villages around Jesuit missions in Sinaloa, Sonora, and Baja California.  But the undercurrent of resentment manifested itself in 1616, when the Tepehuan had had enough.  “The revolt, which lasted four years, was later characterized by the Jesuit historian and contemporary of the events, Andrés Pérez de Ribas, as ‘one of the greatest outbreaks of disorder, upheaval and destruction that had been seen in New Spain…since the Conquest.’  Over two hundred Spaniards were killed along with an unknown number of slaves and servants.  Ten missionaries also died in the revolt, of which eight were Jesuit priests.  The destruction of property on the Spanish side has been valued at between 400,000 and 1,000,000 pesos.  The number of Tepehuanes who died in the fighting or from hunger, exposure, and disease as a result of Spanish reprisals was estimated at 4,000” (From the Introduction)  It took almost 50 years before the area reached the level it had been before the revolt.  Catholics blamed the devil.