Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain

by Ana Pulido Rull

Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used as evidence in litigation over the allocation of land. These land grant maps, or mapas de mercedes de tierras, recorded the boundaries of cities, provinces, towns, and places; they made note of markers and ownership, and, at times, the extent and measurement of each field in a territory, along...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806164964
• ISBN13: 9780806164960
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.6" x 10.2"