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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790274903321

Autore

Benavides Alonso de <active 1630.>

Titolo

A harvest of reluctant souls [[electronic resource] ] : Fray Alonso de Benavides's history of New Mexico, 1630 / / translated with a revised introduction and notes by Baker H. Morrow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-85828-2

0-8263-5158-1

Edizione

[1st UNM Press pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MorrowBaker H. <1946->

Disciplina

978.9/01

Soggetti

Indians of North America - New Mexico

New Mexico Description and travel Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 1996, which is a translation of  Benavides' Memorial, written in 1630.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Letter from Fray Juan de Santander to the King of Spain; Letter from Fray Alonso de Benavides to the King of Spain; 1: The Nations That Live Along the Road to New Mexico; 2: The Mansa Nation of the Río del Norte; 3: The Beginning of the Apache Nation; 4: The Province and Nation of the Piros,  Senecú, Socorro, and Sevilleta; 5: The Mines of Socorro; 6: The Tiwa Nation; 7: The Queres Nation; 8: The Tompiro Nation; 9: The Tano Nation; 10: The Pecos Nation; 11: The Villa of Santa Fé; 12: The Tewa Nation

13: The Jémez Nation14: The Picurís Nation; 15: The Taos Nation; 16: The Great Rock of Acoma; 17: The Zuni Nation; 18: The Moqui (Hopi) Nation; 19: The Rites of These Heathens; 20: How Well They Take to Christian Practices; 21: What That Kingdom Owes to Your Majesty; 22: The Fertility of the Land; 23: Fish; 24: Game; 25: The Rigorous Climate; 26: The Great Apache Nation; 27: The Beginning of the Conversion of the Apaches; 28: The Conversion of the Gila Apaches, and the Notable Hieroglyphic of an Apache Captain; 29: The Conversion of the Apaches de Navajó

30: The Vaquero Apaches of the Buffalo Herd31: The Miraculous Conversion of the Humana Nation; 32: The Kingdom of Quivira and



Aixaos; 33: The Holy Tasks with Which the Friars Keep Themselves Busy; 34: The South Coast; 35: The Valley of Sonora (Señora); 36: Agastán; 37: Sibola (Cíbola); 38: Tiguex (Tihues); 39: A City; 40: Marvelous Great Rock; 41: Tuzayán; 42: Cicuyo (Cicuye or Pecos); 43: Quivira; Postscript: Letter from Fray Juan de Santander to the King of Spain; Notes; For Further Reading; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

The most thorough account ever written of southwestern life in the early seventeenth century, this engaging book was first published in 1630 as an official report to the king of Spain by Fray Alonso de Benavides, a Portuguese Franciscan who was the third head of the mission churches of New Mexico.