Peace Came in the Form of a Woman Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship.Barr, Juliana is the author of 'Peace Came in the Form of a Woman Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands', published 2007 under ISBN 9780807830826 and ISBN 0807830828.