These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912

by Maurice S Crandall and Maurice S. Crandall

Book Overview

Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power.

Focusing on four groups--Pueblos in New Mexico, Hopis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469652668
• ISBN13: 9781469652665
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"