os Angeles: Quivira Society, 1933), 38. Despite losses in tr
anslation, I will cite the 1933 Quivira Society English translation throughout. The verse structure of the Historia is one loss: the translation is in prose. The pindaric ode quoted above was translated in verse. 2. Beatriz Pa will continue to provide training to our nation's First Responders to help them effectively respond to events involving explosives.
stor Bodmer does
n't even mention Villagrd's Historia in her st
udy of Spanish accounts of exploration and conquest in the New World. She assumes the genre of conquest writing is effectively over aft
- er publication of La Araucana, in 1589. 3. See Greenblatt 1991, Seed, Tod
- orov 146-49 for more extended analyses of the Requerimien
- to and acts of taking possession. 4. De
bray 27. Debray discusses the "primary-determinants" Of time an
d space in the founding of national societies, arguing that any community requires (1) a delimitation in time, or the assignation of origins (the Temple), and (2) delimitation within an enclosed space (the
- Ark). It seems to me that unlike the "nation," empire uses the assignati
- on of origins to renegotiate and expand its delimitation
- in space, or in his terms, that the "Temp
le" always travels on the "Ark."
5. See Sdnchez-Albomoz.
6
. See "Contract of Don Juan de Onate for the Discovery and Conquest of New Mexico," in Hammond (1953, 42-57). Hammond's collection and translation of the official doc
- uments, writings, and letters associated with Don Juan de On
- ate will h
ereafter be referenced in this text as D/O.
7. See "Instructions to
Don Juan de Onate, October 21, 1595," DJO 65-68.
8. Cortes himself owed many of his strategies to the reconquest of Muslim Spain, which was coming to an end during his childhood. See H. B. Johnson, 331. Nevertheless, Cortes's devastation of Tenochtitlan emerges in both contemporary accounts and in our historical memory as the paradigmatic tale of Spanish conquest, in part, no doubt, because he was
See Gutierrez for a fascinating discussion of the parallels be
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nd that of Cortes; it
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10. Onate begins with twelve friars. Only ten appear to have accompanied him as f
ar as New Mexico.
11. ccorA
ding to Onate's lette
rs, she had been abducted from Pant-ham-ba Pueblo during Castano de Sosa's unauthorized travel into New Mexico in 1590. From available evidence, it seems that
- her role was none so illustrio
- us as her model: well into the expedition, Onate complained tha
- t "she does not know the language or another in New Mexico, nor is she learning them" (D/O 321). 12. From the official "Itinerary of the Expedition." 13. Gutierrez claims that Onate definitely played the role of CortS
- s and that Indians actually participated in this drama (49). While this is probable, I have found no evidence to confi
- rm it. 14. This new Requerimiento no longer authorized the enslavementof Indians. But this
conduct is not therefore ended, only re-moved: the "imp
roved" Ordinances of Discovery in 1573, for example, recommend that if the Indians are not cooperative, the preachers "should ask for their chiU.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)ldren under the pretext of teaching them and keep them as hostages" (in Hanke 1973,114).
15. From the letter of Captain Velasco to the vice
roy, March 22, 1601. 16. See D/O 337-62 for the official records of the Acts of Obedience and Vassalage by the Indians in
- each of the Pueblos. Each varies slightly, but all end wit
- h this gesture of submission. 17. From the "Convicti
- on of Onate and his Captains, 1614." WORKS CITED Debray,
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