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Nación Genízara: Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico
Contributor(s): Gonzales, Moises (Editor), Lamadrid, Enrique R. (Editor)
ISBN: 082636330X     ISBN-13: 9780826363305
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
OUR PRICE:   $34.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx)
- History | Native American
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6" W x 9" (1.28 lbs) 396 pages
 
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Winner of the 2021 Heritage Publication Award from the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division
Second Place Winner of the 2020 International Latino Book Award for Best History Book

Nación Genízara examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genízaro people. The contributors to this volume cover topics including ethnogenesis, slavery, settlements, poetics, religion, gender, family history, and mestizo genetics. Fray Angélico Chávez defined Genízaro as the ethnic term given to indigenous people of mixed tribal origins living among the Hispano population in Spanish fashion. They entered colonial society as captives taken during wars with Utes, Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, and Pawnees. Genízaros comprised a third of the population by 1800. Many assimilated into Hispano and Pueblo society, but others in the land-grant communities maintained their identity through ritual, self-government, and kinship.

Today the persistence of Genízaro identity blurs the lines of distinction between Native and Hispanic frameworks of race and cultural affiliation. This is the first study to focus exclusively on the detribalized Native experience of the Genízaro in New Mexico.