Abstract

ROJAS GALVAN, José. The Movement of Tlaxcaltecas Indians Families to North Region of Nueva Galicia (Virreinato de la Nueva España). A Policy of Colonization and Pacification of the Spanish Empire at the End of the XVI Century. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.16, pp.55-88. ISSN 2145-132X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v8n16.55143.

At the end of the XVI century, the Spanish empire had the necessity to create a series of strategies to access deposits of metal deposits located them in the North of Nueva España. These metal deposits were very important to the colony economy. The porpouse of this text in to analize the colonization and pacification policy that the Spanish goverment used in the North of Nueva Galicia during this history period of time, in which a group of tlaxcaltecas families took the leading role. The method used en this research is the historical reconstruction, which give us elements to build up all the past events of the differents sources -vestiges and testimonies- already analized. All this let us know a successfuly colonial policy which help the colonial government to extracted the silver, and also contribuid to legitimize the expansion of tlaxcalteca people in North of Nueva España. Also we conclude two kinds of acul-turation: the macroestructural and the microestructural, both affecting in a considerate way the two different social groups wich consider in the same space.

Keywords : tlaxcaltecas families; colonization; pacification; Nueva Galicia.

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