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Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

2007 The University of North Carolina Press ;ISBN: 0807857904 ;ISBN: 9780807857908 ;ISBN: 0807830828 ;ISBN: 9780807830826 ;EISBN: 9781469604701 ;EISBN: 1469604701 ;EISBN: 9780807867730 ;EISBN: 080786773X ;OCLC: 935259626 ;OCLC: 609329278 ;LCCallNum: E78.T4B37 2007

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  • Title:
    Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
  • Author: Barr, Juliana
  • Subjects: 18th century ; Cultural history ; Diplomacy ; Ethnic Studies ; HISTORY ; Indian captivities ; Indians of North America ; Indigenous populations ; Missions, Spanish ; Native American Studies ; North Amerindians ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) ; Spaniards ; State & Local ; Texas ; To 1846 ; U.S.A ; United States ; Women ; Women and peace
  • Description: Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control.Barr argues that Indians not only retained control over their territories but also imposed control over Spaniards. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship. By examining six realms of encounter--first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity--Barr shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian-Spanish relations by defining people's identity, status, and obligations vis-a-vis others. Because native systems of kin-based social and political order predominated, argues Barr, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Creation Date: 2009
  • Format: 416
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0807857904
    ISBN: 9780807857908
    ISBN: 0807830828
    ISBN: 9780807830826
    EISBN: 9781469604701
    EISBN: 1469604701
    EISBN: 9780807867730
    EISBN: 080786773X
    OCLC: 935259626
    OCLC: 609329278
    LCCallNum: E78.T4B37 2007
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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