Suicides, Epidemies and Death in a Collera of Apache (n’dé) Women and Children en Route to Mexico City (1789-1790)

This article presents as a general objective the analysis of a collera (group of prisoners), composed almost entirely by apache (n´dé) women and children which was forcefully removed from the villa of Chihuahua and sent off to Mexico City. The inhumane and particularly cruel character of this remova...

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Autor: Venegas Delgado, Hernán Maximiliano
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios de Historia Novohispana
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/77809
Acceso en línea:https://novohispana.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ehn/article/view/77809
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:colleras
mujeres
niños
suicidios
epidemias
muertes
Collera
women
children
suicides
epidemics
deaths
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Sumario:This article presents as a general objective the analysis of a collera (group of prisoners), composed almost entirely by apache (n´dé) women and children which was forcefully removed from the villa of Chihuahua and sent off to Mexico City. The inhumane and particularly cruel character of this removal draws the conclusions of this work. Suicides as means of liberation among the elder, as well as many epidemics and illnesses contracted, rebel acts which are mainly silenced and implied in the researched documents, and other grave problems are analyzed. The fundamental hypothesis, which derives the general conclusion of this article, is that these events brought the death and disappearance of approximately half of the members of the collera, a fact which highlights the importance of this type of research. The essential analysis methods where the comparative-historical and the analytical-synthetical in accordance to the development of this decisive history that, given its transcendence, surpassed its theoretical conception in this case study. Documental sources referring the studied collera and other sources were used for this research in accordance to the comparative work that was done with other Iberoamerican territories.