“Españoles descendientes de aquéllos [indios]”. Nietos españoles de caciques indios

Mestizaje, or inter-racial unions, between indigenous and Spanish nobility during colonial New Spain, allowed descendants to employ both ethnicities as they saw fit. In eighteenth century documents, for example, these individuals claimed to be Spanish but recognized and documented their indigenous a...

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Main Author: Felipe Canuto Castillo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2017-02-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/70408