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Discovering the Chichimecas - Latin American Studies

The Americas 51:1 July 1994, 67-88 Copyright by the Academy of American Franciscan History Discovering THE Chichimecas he European practice of conceptualizing their enemies so that they could dispose of them in ways that were not in accord with their own Christian principles is well documented. In the Americas, this began with Columbus's designation of certain Indians as man-eaters and was con- tinued by those spanish who also wished to enslave the natives or eliminate them altogether. The word "cannibal" was invented to describe such peo- ple, and the spanish were legally free to treat cannibals in ways that were forbidden to them in their relations with other By the late fifteenth century the word cannibal had assumed a place in the languages of Europe as the latest concept by which Europeans sought to categorize the "other.

68 DISCOVERING THE CHICHIMECAS The purpose of this essay is to examine both the Nahuatl and Spanish uses of the word chichimeca to uncover the variety of connotations ...

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