Juan Bautista and Jacinto de los Ángeles: two Zapotec Indians on the road to sainthood. Oaxaca, Mexico, 1700-2002

Assistants of Dominican priest in San Francisco Cajonos, denounced native rituals.

The community rebelled and asked the priests to deliver the assistants. Terrified, the priest did it. The two assistants were never seen again.

Spanish backlash: community leaders executed and their bodies quartered.

Huaman Poma, “Corregidor de Minas punishes caciques”

•  Fill “Republic of Indians”

•  Redirect Pre-conquest systems of tax and tribute (now Indian tax and tribute)

•  Mediate between Indian Communities and Spanish authorities, ultimately the Crown.

Coat of Arms of Felipe Guacrapaucar containing design of a Royal Tocapu Uncu tunic, 1564 Peru.

Coat of Arms of the City of Tlacopan (today’s Tacuba in Mexico City), 1564. Fundación Casa de Alba Madrid

Coat of Arms of Don Antonio Cortés Totoquihuaztli, 1564

Xiuhuitzolli= diadem used by tlatoani of king of city-state

Flowers tlacotl

Totoquihuatzin

Codex Techialoyan Garcia Granados, Central Mexico, mid-late 17th Century,

Genealogical Tree of the Royal Line of Texcoco, c. 1750. Berlin.

The marriage of Don Martin de Loyola to Doña Beatriz Ñusta and of Dn Juan Borja to Lorenza Ñusta de Loyola, c 1680. Church of the Company of Jesus, Cuzco, Peru.

From: Carolyn Dean, Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ. Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru

From: Carolyn Dean, Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ. Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru

Anonymous, Portrait of a Ñusta, c. 1730-50. Cuzco.

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