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Empire of sand : the Seri Indians and the struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645-1803

Title
Empire of sand : the Seri Indians and the struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645-1803 / compiled and edited by Thomas E. Sheridan.
Publication
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors
Sheridan, Thomas E.
Description
493 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-477) and index.
Language (note)
  • Contains the texts of original Spanish documents with English translations.
Contents
  • I. Early Spanish Contacts and the Foundation of the Seri Mission Program (1645-1700). Father Andres Perez de Ribas on the Seris, 1645. Father Ortiz Zapata on the Seris, 1678. Father Fernandez to Altamirano on the Conversion of the Seris at Populo, 1679. Diary of Alferez Juan Bautista de Escalante, 1700 -- II. Missions and Skirmishes (1725-1740). The de la Huerta Affair, 1725-1726. Huidobro and the Jesuits, 1729-1740 -- III. The Breakdown of Seri-Spanish Relations and the Expedition to Tiburon Island (1748-1750). Father Miranda on the Impact of Horcasitas Presidio on the Mission Seris, 1749. Relacion of Father Perera, 1750. Decree of Governor Ortiz Parrilla Ordering the Expedition to Tiburon Island, 1750. Ortiz Parrilla and the Jesuits Propose to Deport the Seris, 1750. Pimentel's Diary of the Expedition to Tiburon Island, 1750 -- IV. Fire and Blood (1751-1771). Breve Resumen de los Desastres, 1760. Relacion of the Expedition to Sonora, 1771 --
  • V. Late-Eighteenth-Century Missionization, Resettlement, and Warfare (1772-1803). The Abortive Mission at Carrizal and the Martyrdom of Fray Gil, 1772. The Settlement of the Seris at Pitic, 1772. The Resumption of Seri Hostilities, 1777. The Abandonment of the Seri Settlement at Pitic, 1790. Seri Hostilities at the Turn of the Century, 1798-1803.
ISBN
0816518580 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
99006152
OCLC
ocm40848423
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries