The Jar Of Severed Hands: Spanish Deportation Of Apache Prisoners Of War, 1770Û1810

More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiago's gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial period of the Southwest and northern Mexico. The author's nuanced analysis of deportation policy credits both the Apaches' ability to exploit the Spanish government's dual approach and the growing awareness on the Spaniards' part that the peoples they referred to as Apaches were a disparate and complex assortment of tribes that could not easily be subjugated. The Jar of Severed Hands deepens our understanding of the dynamics of the relationship between Indian tribes and colonial powers in the Southwest borderlands.

• | Author: Mark Santiago
• | Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 02, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 274 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0806164565
• | ISBN-13: 9780806164564