The Hispano Homeland

Author: Richard Lee Nostrand
ISBN: 9780806124148

"Deep in the American Southwest, in the mountains and river valleys of northern New Mexico, a distinctive group of people have made their home for four hundred years. Descendants of the settlers who moved into this most northern periphery of New Spain late in the sixteenth century, they exhibit clear cultural differences from other Spanish-speaking people of the Borderlands." "In this carefully researched, clearly written book, Richard L. Nostrand interprets the Hispanos' experience in geographical terms. He demonstrates that their unique intermixture with Pueblo Indians, nomad Indians, Anglos, and Mexican Americans, combined with isolation in their particular natural and cultural environments, have given them a unique sense of place--a sense of homeland." "Several processes shaped and reshaped the Hispano Homeland. Initial colonization left the Hispanos relatively isolated from cultural changes in the rest of New Spain, and gradual intermarriage with Pueblo and nomad Indians gave them

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publish Date: 1992

Subjects: History / General

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