In this episode I demonstrate how natives navigated life in the Republicas de Indios (Indian Republics) of New Spain. #colonialhistory #indigenous #chicano   

References 

Borah, Woodrow. 2018. Justice by Insurance: The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real. N.p.: University of California Press.  

Jiménez Gómez, Juan R. 2008. La república de indios en Querétaro, 1550-1820: gobierno, elecciones y bienes de comunidad. N.p.: Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.  

Masters, Adrian. 2021. “THE TWO, THE ONE, THE MANY, THE NONE: Rethinking the Republics of Spaniards and Indians in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Indies.” The Americas 78, no. 1 (January): 3-36.  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/two-the-one-the-many-the-none-rethinking-the-republics-of-spaniards-and-indians-in-the-sixteenthcentury-spanish-indies/834427C28A38B1F5A679DAB669501F5E 

Zurita, Alonso d. 1994. Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico: The Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain. Translated by Benjamin Keen. N.p.: University of Oklahoma Press.