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Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory

In this exceptional book, edited by Lee Panich and Tsim Schneider, archaeology and ethnohistory scholars address the topic of Spanish colonization in North America, spanning five regions from Florida to California, and three centuries from the late 1500s to the mid-1800s. This book charges a movement in Spanish colonial research aimed at addressing two major themes: (1) any colonial site, from churches to hinterland campsites, are viewed within broader (both physically and conceptually) landscapes, and (2) these places are viewed from an indigenous perspective with an expressed emphasis on Native agency. As the contributors to this book explore the theme of landscape, they emphasize the social, religious, political, and economic landscapes of the colonial era. In addition, participants highlight that Spanish colonial sites were constructed within existing indigenous landscapes that persisted into colonial times, thus emphasizing Native agency during colonial moments. These two main themes are woven through chapters organized into three main sections: Power, Politics, and Belief; External Connections; and Outside the Mission Walls. In the first section of the book (after the Introduction), called Power, Politics, and Belief (Chapters 2 through 4), the researchers present case studies from Georgia, Florida, and Texas that discuss some ways indigenous peoples moved between traditional and Spanish political economic and religious landscapes during colonial times. In Chapter 2, Elliot H. Blair and David Hurst Thomas re-examine the 1597 Guale rebellion in Spanish Florida from an indigenous perspective, within a framework of the Indian political economic landscape. They argue that rather than being motivated by anti-Spanish sentiment, this particular rebellion was instigated by competitions among Indian groups that existed well beyond the walls of the mission quadrangle. In Chapter 3, Willet A. Boyer III focuses on religious landscapes in seventeenth-century Florida. To support his argument that the Acuera moved between Spanish and traditional religious systems, Boyer discusses archaeological evidence that the Acuera maintained strong connections to homelands and