These people have always been a republic : indigenous electorates in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, 1598-1912 /

By focusing on this long history, Maurice Crandall demonstrates how Indigenous peoples absorbed, adapted, or eschewed colonially imposed forms of electoral politics and exercised political sovereignty based on local needs. In doing so, this study compares and contrasts not only Spanish, Mexican and...

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Main Author:	Crandall, Maurice (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:	David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
Subjects:	Indians of North America > Political activity. Indians of Mexico > Political activity. Indians of North America > Government relations. Indians of Mexico > Government relations. Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc. Indians of Mexico > Legal status, laws, etc. Mexican-American Border Region > History.