Economic spill and conflicts in the guilds of Indians in the Province of Tlaxcala, XVII and XVIII Centuries

Abstract

The native brotherhoods in the province of Tlaxcala, during the colonial period, were a space of collective maneuver of the indigenous population facing the Spanish system, and its review allows to appreciate conflicts and tensions, as well as the negotiating capacity of the native people relating that system. Its relevance was in line with its economic solvency, and the administration of its resources was marked by Spanish interests, the intervention of ecclesiastical authority and internal conflicts. However, the negotiating capacity of this indigenous corporations was strong enough to maintain certain degree of autonomy versus the secularization of the parishes and the Bourbon-Episcopal reformism.