Cather's Treatment of Colonial and 19th- Century History and Ideology in Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Presentation (Handout) from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: keine, RWTH Aachen University (English Department), language: English, abstract: Spanish Colonial History of New Mexico Alluded to in Narrative:ð references to Spanish Colonial History in the narrative are mostly of mythological character,mainly concerning the achievements of Spanish Catholic Missionaries and their struggles withthe native populationð Our Spanish fathers made good martyrs (p. 8) Spanish Franciscans were among the firstto explore the southwest pueblo country in the 16th century and persisted in their effortspreaching Christianity and establishing missions, though many of them suffered martyrdom(killed by the natives) by 1630 they had converted about 20000 Indians and establishedmore than 50 missions in the Rio Grande Valleyð Great Indian Revolt of 1680 (p.152) close to 400 settlers and 21 of 33 priests massacred byPueblo Indians under the leadership of Popé missionary work was destroyed until the reconquestof the territory by Don Diego de Vargas in 1692-93ð Church at Àcoma built in early 17th century by Fray Ramirez and his followers Catherseems to criticize this missioners through the figure of Latour , who expresses the suspicionthat Fray Ramirez let the Àcoma build the church out of his worldly ambition and not accordingto the needs of the Indians [...]

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