New Spain's longest and costliest Indian war (1550–1590s) across the Gran Chichimeca — the theatre in which the Guachichil, Zacateco, Guamare, Pame and Caxcán nations (now separate records) fought the silver-road advance; 'Chichimeca' was the Nahua exonym their enemies used for all of them.
Pacified in the 1590s by 'peace by purchase' — gifts, land and Tlaxcalan colonists — and gradually assimilated.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Chichimeca War (Gran Chichimeca) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1526 · 1550.
A scholarly translation of Alva Ixtlilxochitl's seventeenth-century chronicle of the Chichimeca and ancient Mexico.
Sets the Chichimeca war within the silver economy and Native enslavement of northern Mexico (broad context).
Era sweeper covering the long history of indigenous resistance to colonialism across North America; contextualizes the Chichimeca War within the broader pattern of Spanish-indigenous conflict.
Weber's comprehensive history of Spain's northern frontier is the essential era context for the Chichimeca nations and their resistance; covers the 'peace by purchase' resolution of the 1590s.
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