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The Jar of Severed Hands - Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770-1810 (Paperback)
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The Jar of Severed Hands - Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770-1810 (Paperback)
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More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set
foot in the region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late
1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiago's
gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches
illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial
period of the Southwest and northern Mexico. To persuade the
Apaches to abandon their homelands and accept Christian
""civilization,"" Spanish officials employed both the mailed fist
of continuous war and the velvet glove of the reservation system.
""Hostiles"" captured by the Spanish would be deported, while
Apaches who agreed to live in peace near the Spanish presidios
would receive support. Santiago's history of the deportation policy
includes vivid descriptions of colleras, the chain gangs of Apache
prisoners of war bound together for the two-month journey by mule
and on foot from the northern frontier to Mexico City. The book's
arresting title, The Jar of Severed Hands, comes from a 1792 report
documenting a desperate break for freedom made by a group of Apache
prisoners. After subduing the prisoners and killing twelve Apache
men, the Spanish soldiers verified the attempted breakout by
amputating the left hands of the dead and preserving them in a jar
for display to their superiors.Santiago's nuanced analysis of
deportation policy credits both the Apaches' ability to exploit the
Spanish government's dual approach and the growing awareness on the
Spaniards' part that the peoples they referred to as Apaches were a
disparate and complex assortment of tribes that could not easily be
subjugated. The Jar of Severed Hands deepens our understanding of
the dynamics of the relationship between Indian tribes and colonial
powers in the Southwest borderlands.
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