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Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used as evidence in litigation over the allocation of land. These land grant maps, or mapas de mercedes de tierras, recorded the boundaries of cities, provinces, towns, and places; they made note of markers and ownership, and, at

Title : Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain
Author : Ana Pulido Rull
Language : en
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