MIXTÓN WAR

mēstōnˈ, 1541, revolt of indigenous peoples against Spanish rule in Nueva Galicia, W Mexico. The conquest under Nuño de Guzmán had been particularly harsh and the encomienda system established obvious injustice. Consequently the indigenous Mexicans were thoroughly discontented. When Coronado's expedition to the north in 1540 drained away many of the Spanish, the local peoples rose under Tenamaxtli. They fortified Mixtón, Nochistlán, and other mountain towns and besieged Guadalajara. Unable to cope with the uprising, Cristóbal de Oñate, the acting governor, asked for aid from the viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza. The Spanish, reinforced by a large body of Tlaxcaltec and Aztec, succeeded in recapturing the towns by hard fighting. Pedro de Alvarado was killed in a rash assault on Nochistlán, and the reconquest was slow, but Spanish authority was reestablished in New Spain.

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Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain
Book by Susan Schroeder; University of Nebraska Press, 1998
Subjects: Indians Of Mexico--Government Relations, Indians Of Mexico--Wars, Mexico--History--Spanish Colony, 1540-1810
...39. On Guzmans expeditions, see Gerhard, North Frontier , especially 5-6. On the Mixton War, see Gerhard, North Frontier . On the Chichimeca War, see Powell, Soldiers, Indians, and Silver , and Mexicos Miguel Caldera . 40. See also...
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The Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule
Book by Lori Boornazian Diel; University of Texas Press, 2008
Subjects: Aztec Art--Mexico--Tepexpan, Aztecs--First Contact With Europeans, Aztecs--Mexico--Tepexpan--History--Chronology, Mexico--History--Spanish Colony, 1540-1810, Mexico--History--To 1810, Spain--Colonies--America--Administration, Tepexpan (Mexico)--History--Chronology, Tira De Tepechpan
...register (plate 16), an indigenous war- rior holds a shield decorated with...near Xochi- pilli referred to as the Mixton; and the sub- sequent battle is known as the Mixton War. Easily defended, the Mixton is in an elevated position and is...
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By the Sword and the Cross: The Historical Evolution of the Catholic World Monarchy in Spain and the New World, 1492-1825
Book by Charles A. Truxillo; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Civilization, Hispanic--Philosophy, Latin America--Civilization--Spanish Influences, Latin America--History--To 1830, Pan-Hispanism--Philosophy, Spain--Civilization--Latin American Influences, Spain--Colonies--America--Administration
...1975). Earlier during the Mixton War (1540-1542), it had...lost its martial spirit. The Mixton War and the revolt of Manco...Indian auxiliaries. During the Mixton War, Antonio de Mendoza responded...Mexico during the Chichimeca wars (1545-1595). The Chilean...
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Coronado's Quest: The Discovery of the Southwestern States
Book by A. Grove Day; University of California Press, 1940
Subjects: Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de--1510-1554, North America--Discovery and exploration, Southwest, New--Description and travel
...April 10. Defeat of the Spaniards at the penol of Mixton opens the Mixton War in New Galicia. April 20. Coronado at Tiguex writes...hundred men reaches Guadalajara to aid in fighting the Mixton War. June 24. Pedro de Alvarado is fatally injured...
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The History of Mexico
Book by Burton Kirkwood; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Mexico--History
...Mexicos viceroys were tested by the event known as the Mixton War and by questions surrounding the implementation of the...western Mexico, Indians initiated a conflict known as the Mixton War 1540-1541 . The actions were a response against the...
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3: Historical Outline of Mission Development in New Mexico and Chihuahua
Journal article; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 48, 2006
Subjects: Chihuahua, Mexico, Historic buildings, Spanish colonialism--History, Spanish colonialism--Religious aspects, Spanish missions--Buildings and facilities, Spanish missions--History
...manpower drawn into the expedition to rebel. The ensuing Mixton war was not quelled until a year later. The failure of the Coronado expedition to find the expected riches and the Mixton war slowed northward expansion until the discovery in 1548...
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The Tree of Jesse and the "relación de Michoacán": Mimicry in Colonial Mexico
Journal article by Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 92, 2010
...well. Alcala later accompanied Viceroy Mendoza to the Mixton War in 154J. We know that Don Francisco and Don Antonio...Don Francisco had even accompanied die viceroy to the Mixton War.22 The brothers also moved to Patzcuaro along with...
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Recollections of Carl Sauer and Research in Latin America
Journal article by Henry J. Bruman; The Geographical Review, Vol. 86, 1996
Subjects: College teachers--Appreciation, Latin America--Research, Research--Study and teaching, Sauer, Carl--Appreciation
...San Luis Potosi, where they had been nomadic hunters and gatherers until various factors - including, probably, the Mixton War in the 1540s - caused them to move to the sierra to the west. How did the Huicholes come to possess the still, which...
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Huichol Society before the Arrival of the Spanish
Journal article by Phil C. Weigand, Acelia Garcia De Weigand; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Archaeology--Research, Huichols--History, Mexican native peoples--History, Native Americans (Mexico)--History, Nayarit, Mexico--History
...around war and sacrifice. SACRIFICE, WAR, AND SOCIAL HIERARCHY IN THE NAYARITA...oracle whose counsel they take in their wars and future affairs). In general terms...un fenomeno rebelde: la guerra del Mixton en Nueva Galicia. In Contribuciones...


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MixtÓn War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MIXTON WAR meston , 1541, revolt of indigenous peoples against Spanish rule in Nueva...of the Spanish, the local peoples rose under Tenamaxtli. They fortified Mixton, Nochistlan, and other mountain towns and besieged Guadalajara. Unable...
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Mexico , Country, North America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...control, as is evidenced by such events as the Mixton War (1541). Nonetheless, the small minority of...inequities in the social order went unchallenged. The war with Texas led to an all-out war with the United States, the Mexican War (1846...
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Guadalajara , City, Mexico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...moved twice, before and during the Mixton War, because of military pressure by the...1810 by Hidalgo y Costilla during the war against Spain, the city was the center...activities. Again in 1858, in the War of Reform, it was briefly occupied...
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Coronado, Francisco VÁsquez De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Grande, then in 1542 left the northern country to go ingloriously back to Nueva Galicia and into the terrors of the Mixton War . In 1544, Coronado was dismissed from his governorship and lived the rest of his life in peaceful obscurity in Mexico...
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Alvarado, Pedro De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...When the indigenous people of Nueva Galicia unexpectedly revolted in 1541, Alvarado took part against them in the Mixton War. He led a foolhardy attack and was accidentally killed in the subsequent retreat. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo took command...
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