Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State

Although indigenous communities reacted to Spanish presence with significant acts of resistance and rebellion, they also turned to negotiation to deal with conflicts and ameliorate the consequences of colonial rule. This affected not only the development of legal systems in New Spain and Mexico but also the survival and continuation of traditional cultures.

Bringing together work by Mexican and North American historians, this collection is a crucially important and rare contribution to the...