by Ida Altman (Author)

An English translation of accounts of the experiences and responses of the indigenous peoples of western Mexico in the first half of the sixteenth century to Spanish efforts to establish control over the region that they would call Nueva Galicia.

Author Biography

Ida Altman is Professor of History at the University of Florida. Her most recent book is The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550.