Multidisciplinary in scope, the essay includes new archival material, as well as an analysis of several images. Part of the analysis focuses on an unpublished manuscript by the Franciscan friar José Mariano Díaz de la Vega. Rich in... more
Multidisciplinary in scope, the essay includes new archival material, as well as an analysis of several images. Part of the analysis focuses on an unpublished manuscript by the Franciscan friar José Mariano Díaz de la Vega. Rich in details, the text by this Creole clerical author offers an apologetic view of the Indigenous population by collecting several accounts describing their ability to become "good Christians": Salvadora de los Santos, Catherine Tekakwitha, and the apparition stories of the Virgins of Guadalupe, Remedios, Ocotlán, and San Miguel del Milagro. It also describes portrait galleries of illustrious Indigenous men across Spanish America such as Juan de Espinoza y Medrano (El Lunarejo).
