Description: Why some Indian groups were assimiliated into Mexican culture while others remained distinct.
Brief description: Susan M. Deeds is Professor of History at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.
Review Quotes: This book illuminates the lives and fates of Native Americans--and the Spaniards with whom they came in contact--with great care and unusual fairness, and is a model worthy of emulation.-- "New Mexico Historical Review" (9/1/2005 12:00:00 AM)