Record 1 of 1 in Dissertation Abstracts 1987-1991



TI: SIX TLAXCALAN COLONIES ON NEW SPAIN'S NORTHERN FRONTIER; A
COMPARISON OF SUCCESS AND FAILURE (MEXICO)

AU: SEGO-EUGENE-B

DN: PHD

DD: 1990

SN: INDIANA-UNIVERSITY (0093)

PG: 320

LA: ENGLISH

AB: In their desire to end the long and costly warfare with the nomadic
Indians on colonial Mexico's northern frontier, Spanish officials
pursued a number of remedies; one of which was pacification of the
region through the introduction of colonies of Indian allies from
central Mexico. By far the most energetic and large-scale effort of
this type took place in 1591, when about one thousand Tlaxcalans were
sent north to found six widely scattered settlements. This study traces
the history of five of them (San Luis Colotlan,
San Andres del Teul, San Miguel Mesquitic, Nuestra Senora de la
Asuncion de Tlaxcalilla, and San Sebastian del Agua del Venado), in an
attempt to ascertain the impact of the expedition in general, and
individual successes and failures experienced at each colony. In
addition, comparisons have been made with events occurring at the sixth
and northernmost colony, San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala--the history of
which has been reported in earlier dissertations.

For the most part
the colonization plan was quite successful, although the San Andres
settlement sustained a vicious attack and was abandoned within only a
few months. Overall peace was maintained, with just a few sporadic and
localized rebellions occurring thereafter. However, it is now apparent
that the Tlaxcalans were faced with a more more significant and
long-term threat from their Spanish neighbors (miners, ranchers, and
hacienda owners), than from the northern Indians. Abundant
documentation of the legal disputes between the two groups exists;
representing a litany of complaints as registered by the 1591 colonists
and their descendants, through Independence and beyond. But while
generally triumphing in court (due in large measure to frequent
viceregal intervention on their behalf), the Tlaxcalan communities were
unable to effectively combat the many governmental and jurisdictional
changes which followed the end of Spanish colonial rule, and were thus
destined to become only barrios of larger creole cities and towns.
Similarly, the preservation of racial and cultural identity was
adversely affected by the passage of time and socio-political pressures.

SU: History-Latin-American (0336)

SO: VOLUME
52-02A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 654.

NO: AAI9119783



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John Schmal also wrote about this subject in one of his articles



joseph





Arturo Ramos wrote:

Does anybody have any information on the forced immigration of 
Tlaxcaltec Indios to the Chichimeca regions of Colotlan, San Luis 
Potosi and Chalchichuites in 1591?  The involuntary migration was 
organized by a certain Rodrigo del Rio in order to bring pacified 
settlers to promising mining areas where the Spanish were to that date 
unable to pacify the local Indios.

These were appartently a large percentage of the original settlers in 
both Colotlan and Totatiche, Jalisco.






 
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