Reading: Alejandra Dubcovsky, Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South (Yale University Press, 2023)
On the 1675 Chacato Revolt: The very norms and behaviors Diocsale regarded as foundational to his survival were the ones Franciscans opposed… Historians are often keen to see Native ambitions — especially Native male ambitions — as connected to state power. Native (male) decisions and actions then become commensurable with those of Europeans and fit together in a shared colonial narrative. But Diocsale prioritized his family and his matrilineal ties… [59]