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The Franciscans in seventeenth-century New Mexico sought to suppress native religious practices they deemed idolatrous. It is well known that Indian resentment of Franciscan actions figured prominently in bringing on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. But what is largely unfamiliar is how, following don Diego de Vargas's recolonization of New Mexico in the 1690s, the Franciscans returned to New Mexico and to missionary activity among the Indians. This book is the first detailed account of how the friars re-entered daily life in eighteenth century New Mexico. Their history was one of a gradual loss of power and influence.
The erosion of Franciscan control over Pueblo Indians and the order's loss of importance in colonial political life are case studies in how reforms instituted by the Spanish Crown in the eighteenth century altered a distant outpost such as New Mexico, slowly and unrelentingly reducing the number, authority, and importance of Franciscans. Norris argues that events in Spain, and especially changes in priorities in the administration of the Americas, shifted the emphasis away from missionary activity and toward political and military actions designed to hold onto this far frontier of the Empire. The Franciscans no longer figured prominently in the Crown's larger purposes during the eighteenth century.
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