The Chronicles of Michoacan - Craine & Reindorp

The Chronicles of Michoacan translated and edited by Eugene R Craine and Reginald C. Reindorp is a Spanish Colonial document that concerns the Tarascan Indians of the state of Michoacan in west-central Mexico. It was compiled about 1540, probably by the Franciscan missionary Fray Martín de Jesús de la Coruña, from information provided by Indian informants. The surviving text, which lacks the first part, begins with an account of Tarascan government in the period just prior to the Spaniards’ arrival and proceeds systematically to deal with religion, warfare, marriage, and other political and social topics. Illustrated. Hardcover. 259pp.