Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: The Historia and Its Translation
Critical Introduction: The Historia and Jesuit Discourse
The Historia
Title Page
Letter to the King
Approval of Fray Alonso de la Corte
Approval of Fray Juan Ponce de León
Author's Declaration
Prologue to the Reader
Letter from the Author to the Very Reverend Fathers of the Company of Jesus
Permission of the Ordinario
Errata
Table of Books and Chapters for This History
Book 1. Description of the Province of Sinaloa, the Nations That Inhabit It, Their Customs, and the First Penetration of the Region by Spaniards
Book 2. The Sinaloa Mission: Priests from the Company of Jesus Arrive in Sinaloa and Begin Their Ministry
Book 3. The Triumphs and Conversion to Our Holy Faith of the Three Principal Nations of the Great Río Zuaque [Fuerte]
Book 4. The Mission to the Río Mayo in Sinaloa and the Reduction of the mayo and Neighboring Nations to Our Holy Faith
Book 5. The Spaniards' Wars with the Yaqui Nation and Their Subsequent Baptism and Reduction to Our Holy Faith
Book 6. Of the Sinaloa Missions: The Last Nations in the Province to Receive Our Holy Faith
Book 7. The Particular Characteristics of Missions to Fierce and Barbarous Peoples and the Fruit That They Ordinarily Produce
Part 2. Of the [History of the] Missions of the Company of Jesus to the Barbarous Peoples of the Kingdom of Nueva España
Book 8. The Topia Mission: The Reduction and Conversion to Our Holy Faith of the Nations That Inhabit These Mountains
Book 9. The Mission of San Andrés and Its Nations
Book 10. The Conversion of the Tepehuan to Our Holy Faith and Their Subsequent Rebellion and Apostasy
Book 11. The Mission of Parras and Laguna Grande de San Pedro
Book 12. An Appendix to the History of the Missions That the Religious of the Company of Jesus have Undertaken among These Barbarous and Remote Peoples of Nueva España
Index of Remarkable Events in This History
Reference Material
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Translators