Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast
edited by Clay Mathers, Jeffrey M. Mitchem and Charles M. Haecker
University of Arizona Press, 2013 eISBN: 978-0-8165-9985-1 | Paper: 978-0-8165-3122-6 | Cloth: 978-0-8165-3020-5 Library of Congress Classification E78.S7N36 2013 Dewey Decimal Classification 979.01
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Spanish-led entradas—expeditions bent on the exploration and control of new territories—took place throughout the sixteenth century in what is now the southern United States. Although their impact was profound, both locally and globally, detailed analyses of these encounters are notably scarce. Focusing on several major themes—social, economic, political, military, environmental, and demographic—the contributions gathered here explore not only the cultures and peoples involved in these unique engagements but also the wider connections and disparities between these borderlands and the colonial world in general during the first century of Native–European contact in North America. Bringing together research from both the southwestern and southeastern United States, this book offers a comparative synthesis of Native–European contacts and their consequences in both regions. The chapters also engage at different scales of analysis, from locally based research to macro-level evaluations, using documentary, paleoclimatic, and regional archaeological data.
No other volume assembles such a wide variety of archaeological, ethnohistorical, environmental, and biological information to elucidate the experience of Natives and Europeans in the early colonial world of Northern New Spain, and the global implications of entradas during this formative period in borderlands history.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Clay Mathers is an archaeologist, the Executive Director of the Coronado Institute, and a research affiliate at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology in New Mexico. Jeffrey M. Mitchem is an associate archaeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey and a research associate professor at the University of Arkansas. Charles M. Haecker is the staff archaeologist for the National Park Service Intermountain Region-Heritage Partnerships Program.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editors’ Preface
1 Entradas in Context: Sixteenth- Century Indigenous and Imperial Trajectories in the American South
Clay Mathers and Jeffrey M. Mitchem
Section I. Native Perspectives
2 Crossing the Corn Line: Steps toward an Understanding of Zuni Communities and Entradas in the Sixteenth- Century Southwest
Kurt E. Dongoske and Cindy K. Dongoske
Section II. Historiography
3 Catch as Catch Can: Th e Evolving History of the Contact Period Southwest, 1838– Present
Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint
4 Contact Era Studies and the Southeastern Indians
Robbie Ethridge
Section III. Climatic Influences and Impacts
5 The Role of Climate in Early Spanish– Native American Interactions in the US Southwest
Carla R. Van West, Th omas C. Windes, Frances Levine, Henri D. Grissino- Mayer, and Matthew W. Salzer
6 The Factors of Climate and Weather in Sixteenth- Century La Florida
Dennis B. Blanton
Section IV. Disease
7 Regarding Sixteenth- Century Native Population Change in the Northern Southwest
Ann F. Ramenofsky and Jeremy Kulisheck
8 Entradas and Epidemics in the Sixteenth- Century Southeast
Dale L. Hutchinson
Section V. Political Organization
9 Sixteenth- Century Indigenous Settlement Dynamics in the Upper Middle Rio Grande Valley
Richard C. Chapman
10 The Interior South at the Time of Spanish Exploration
Robbie Ethridge and Jeff rey M. Mitchem
11 Inventing Florida: Constructing a Colonial Society in an Indigenous Landscape
John E. Worth
Section VI. Conflict
12 Contest and Violence on the Northern Borderlands Frontier: Patterns of Native– European Conflict in the Sixteenth- Century Southwest
Clay Mathers
13 Conflict, Violence, and Warfare in La Florida 231
Christopher B. Rodning, Robin A. Beck, Jr., and David G. Moore
Section VII. Discussion
14 Honor and Hierarchies: Long- Term Trajectories in the Pueblo and Mississippian Worlds 251
David Hurst Thomas
15 History, Prehistory, and the Contact Experience
Charles R. Ewen
Appendix A: Annual Values and Equivalent Z- Scores for the MRG Basin and San Francisco Peaks Chronologies
Notes
References Cited
About the Contributors
Index
Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast
edited by Clay Mathers, Jeffrey M. Mitchem and Charles M. Haecker
University of Arizona Press, 2013 eISBN: 978-0-8165-9985-1 Paper: 978-0-8165-3122-6 Cloth: 978-0-8165-3020-5
Spanish-led entradas—expeditions bent on the exploration and control of new territories—took place throughout the sixteenth century in what is now the southern United States. Although their impact was profound, both locally and globally, detailed analyses of these encounters are notably scarce. Focusing on several major themes—social, economic, political, military, environmental, and demographic—the contributions gathered here explore not only the cultures and peoples involved in these unique engagements but also the wider connections and disparities between these borderlands and the colonial world in general during the first century of Native–European contact in North America. Bringing together research from both the southwestern and southeastern United States, this book offers a comparative synthesis of Native–European contacts and their consequences in both regions. The chapters also engage at different scales of analysis, from locally based research to macro-level evaluations, using documentary, paleoclimatic, and regional archaeological data.
No other volume assembles such a wide variety of archaeological, ethnohistorical, environmental, and biological information to elucidate the experience of Natives and Europeans in the early colonial world of Northern New Spain, and the global implications of entradas during this formative period in borderlands history.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Clay Mathers is an archaeologist, the Executive Director of the Coronado Institute, and a research affiliate at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology in New Mexico. Jeffrey M. Mitchem is an associate archaeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey and a research associate professor at the University of Arkansas. Charles M. Haecker is the staff archaeologist for the National Park Service Intermountain Region-Heritage Partnerships Program.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editors’ Preface
1 Entradas in Context: Sixteenth- Century Indigenous and Imperial Trajectories in the American South
Clay Mathers and Jeffrey M. Mitchem
Section I. Native Perspectives
2 Crossing the Corn Line: Steps toward an Understanding of Zuni Communities and Entradas in the Sixteenth- Century Southwest
Kurt E. Dongoske and Cindy K. Dongoske
Section II. Historiography
3 Catch as Catch Can: Th e Evolving History of the Contact Period Southwest, 1838– Present
Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint
4 Contact Era Studies and the Southeastern Indians
Robbie Ethridge
Section III. Climatic Influences and Impacts
5 The Role of Climate in Early Spanish– Native American Interactions in the US Southwest
Carla R. Van West, Th omas C. Windes, Frances Levine, Henri D. Grissino- Mayer, and Matthew W. Salzer
6 The Factors of Climate and Weather in Sixteenth- Century La Florida
Dennis B. Blanton
Section IV. Disease
7 Regarding Sixteenth- Century Native Population Change in the Northern Southwest
Ann F. Ramenofsky and Jeremy Kulisheck
8 Entradas and Epidemics in the Sixteenth- Century Southeast
Dale L. Hutchinson
Section V. Political Organization
9 Sixteenth- Century Indigenous Settlement Dynamics in the Upper Middle Rio Grande Valley
Richard C. Chapman
10 The Interior South at the Time of Spanish Exploration
Robbie Ethridge and Jeff rey M. Mitchem
11 Inventing Florida: Constructing a Colonial Society in an Indigenous Landscape
John E. Worth
Section VI. Conflict
12 Contest and Violence on the Northern Borderlands Frontier: Patterns of Native– European Conflict in the Sixteenth- Century Southwest
Clay Mathers
13 Conflict, Violence, and Warfare in La Florida 231
Christopher B. Rodning, Robin A. Beck, Jr., and David G. Moore
Section VII. Discussion
14 Honor and Hierarchies: Long- Term Trajectories in the Pueblo and Mississippian Worlds 251
David Hurst Thomas
15 History, Prehistory, and the Contact Experience
Charles R. Ewen
Appendix A: Annual Values and Equivalent Z- Scores for the MRG Basin and San Francisco Peaks Chronologies
Notes
References Cited
About the Contributors
Index