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Author Ruiz Medrano, Ethelia.

Title Mexico's indigenous communities : their lands and histories, 1500-2010 / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano ; translated by Russ Davidson.

Imprint Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  333.2 R859m 2010    ---  Available
Description xvi, 338 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series Mesoamerican worlds : from the Olmecs to the Danzantes
Mesoamerican worlds.
Contents Historical background: Indian access to colonial justice in the sixteenth century -- Indigenous negotiation to preserve land, history, titles, and maps: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Indigenous negotiation to preserve land, history, titles, and maps: nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Defending land: Indian pueblo's contemporary quest for the origins of local community history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language Translated from the Spanish.
Summary Presenting an account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this title destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and have little connection with their ancient past.
Subject Indians of Mexico -- Land tenure -- History.
Indians of Mexico -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
Indians of Mexico -- Claims.
Indians of Mexico -- Ethnic identity.
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Mexico -- History.
Ethnohistory -- Mexico.
ISBN 9781607321330 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1607321335 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781607320166 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1607320169 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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