Location: Kit Carson Electric - 118 Cruz Alta Rd, Taos
Date: March 12th (Tuesday) @ 7:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Michael Bletzer, Archaeologist, Isleta Pueblo
Subject: Colonial Northern New Spain (16th and 17th centuries).
The talk is concerning the Ancestral/Colonial Piro and (Southern) Tiwa pueblos before, during contact/colonial period up to the mid-1750s; the Chichimeca Wars in northern Mexico and their role in the Spanish push into what is now the US Southwest; or more specifically about some of the 1580s/90s Spanish expeditions (C. de Sosa and Leyva primarily, as I'm researching these two currently for a publication) that came up to NM prior to the Onate colonizing expedition.
Dr. Michael Bletzer: PhD Anthropology SMU 2009 Research interests: colonial northern New Spain (16th and 17th centuries), specifically New Mexico and Piro/A'tzi-em Province (pueblos of Teypana, Pilabo-Socorro, and Tzelaqui-Sevilleta, El Muerto ambush site); Chichimeca-Spanish encounters 1530-1800 (entradas de tierra adentro, frontera minera, tierra de guerra, reducciones y rebeliones, etc.); history of colonial and feudal encounters generally; conflict archaeology.
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