Abstract

GOYAS MEJIA, Ramón. Conquest and disappearance of the indigenous coanos in Nueva Galicia. Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2023, n.165, pp.65-94.  Epub Feb 27, 2024. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.165.2023.1613.

This essay analyzes the process of pacification and evangelization of the indigenous population settled in the area that, since the second half of the 16th century, would be known as “provincia de los coanos”, a territory located between the confluences of the current states of Jalisco and Nayarit, in western Mexico. With information from archive sources from the 16th century, the text highlights the indigenous resistance to hispanic colonization and the vicissitudes that the first authorities of Nueva Galicia had to achieve the definitive pacification of this significant enclave that during the viceroyalty served as a important mining region.

Keywords : indigenous resistance; conquest; chichimecas; coanos indigenous.

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