Date published: 1994-01-01
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Situado and Sabana (ID82)Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID32)
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1736-01-01 - 1736-12-31
Bishop Martinez encouraged friars to teach Indian children in the Castilian language
With Martinez Tejada's encouragement, the peninsular Franciscans began to catechize in the Castilian language, calling the Indian children by bells to their doctrinas daily at a regular hour. They did not hold classes at the convent, which, said the bishop, "wants to be a doctrina without Indians, and those that it has it does not care for." His inspection of the convent revealed no "books of marriage or of baptisms" for the natives until the last three or four years, when they began to be allowed to live within the city walls because the convent wished to pass as a doctrina. This breakdown between the Republic of Indians and the Republic of Spaniards had led to "grave damages" and "sins," which he blamed on "the liberty of the indias and their familiarity with the pueblo" (Martinez Tejada, 1736a).
(Bushnell SS)
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