La Florida Missions, livre ebook

Reinterpreting Florida’s mission sites as places where Indigenous peoples and missionaries negotiated power, culture, and survival

This book approaches Florida’s early Spanish missions as dynamic, multiethnic spaces where Indigenous actors resisted as well as negotiated the transformation of their world into challenging spaces of globalization. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, La Florida Missions brings together scholars from anthropology, archaeology, cultural studies, ethnohistory, linguistics, literature, and religious studies. The contributors to the volume move beyond earlier paradigms that envision the missions only as sites of cultural loss, oppression, and destruction.

La Florida Missions opens with the 1565 attempts of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to negotiate with the Calusa, followed by essays on missions to the Mocama, Guale, Timucua, and Apalachee peoples into the eighteenth century, highlighting Franciscan and Indigenous perspectives. The book closes with the experiences of present-day Apalachee descendants in Louisiana, who continue to fight for recognition of their tribal identity. La Florida Missions helps show how Native peoples resisted and outlasted the European invasion of southeastern North America by continually adjusting to the unpredictable forces around them.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Challenging Paradises: La Florida Missions as Spaces of Globalization, Resistance, and Transformation
Viviana Díaz Balsera

Chapter 1. Queen Antonia of the Calusa and Indigenous Female Leadership during the Missionization Period
Traci Ardren

Chapter 2. Centering Mocama Communities and Indigenous Landscapes in a Time of Spanish Missions
Keith Ashley

Chapter 3. Escobedo’s Whales: Material Silences in the Epics of Florida
Thomas Hallock

Chapter 4. A Franciscan Tale of Captivity in Oré’s Account of the Martyrs of La Florida (ca. 1619)
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez

Chapter 5. A que vamos à la Yglesia? Liturgical Performance and Franciscan Identity in Fr. Francisco Pareja’s 1628 Catechism
Timothy J. Johnson

Chapter 6. Performing a Hieroglyph in La Florida: Gregorio de Movilla’s Tercero Cathecismo for the Timucua
Viviana Díaz Balsera and George Aaron Broadwell

Chapter 7. Timucua Voices in Spanish Sources
Alejandra Dubcovsky

Chapter 8. Decolonizing Conversion: The Deep Indigenous History of Religious Exchange in and beyond Florida
Denise I. Bossy

Chapter 9. Apalachee, Historians, Archaeologists, and the Franciscan Missions of Northwest Florida
Rochelle A. Marrinan

Chapter 10. Breaking Bread and the Persistence of Apalachee Foodways during Colonization
Tanya M. Peres

Chapter 11. The Apalachee in West Florida, 1704–1763
John E. Worth

Chapter 12. Apalache? Appalachia? The Talimali Band the Apalachee Indians, Twenty-First-Century Colonialism, and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty
Kimberly Borchard

List of Contributors

Index