From Settler to Citizen

"The unique arts-and-crafts tradition of the American Southwest illuminates this economic and social history of colonial New Mexico, casting new light on the development of New Mexico's Hispanic community and on its changing relationship with Pueblo Indians. Ross Frank's analysis of Pueblo Indian Pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images - or santos - uses these cultural artifacts to trace the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating Hispanic settler - or vecino - community during the final decades of the eighteenth century."--Jacket.