Kristin Dutcher Mann

Colonial Latin American historian & History/Social Studies Ed Coordinator at UA Little Rock. Currently researching bells & creating Arkansas primary source sets

[Kristin Dutcher Mann @dutchermann]

Social studies teachers: Check out 4 new primary source sets --> African Americans during the Civil War, the Bracero Program, Cold War Latin America, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg! #sschat @ualrcahc https://t.co/G7bxKqoQ6D

[Pryor Center @PryorCenter]

On Oct. 3, 1963, President John F. Kennedy spoke at the dedication of the Greers Ferry Dam in Heber Springs, Arkansas. The visit was one of his last public appearances before his assassination.

[FDR Library @FDRLibrary]

In the April 1943, FDR traveled to the US southwest for an inspection tour of the area's military posts and war factories #ArchivesOnTheRoad
📷Camp Robinson, AR. NPx 48-22:3715(35)
📰Map and itinerary for the President’s second wartime inspection tour in the southwest. OF 200-2-Y

[Arkansas Times @ArkTimes]

An exhibit at UA Little Rock Downtown juxtaposes the stories of two enslaved people who successfully sued for their freedom in the 19th century — one in a French colony in the Indian Ocean and the other in a small community in southeast Arkansas. https://t.co/mG58LA1oSM

[Native Bound Unbound @NatBoundUnbound]

𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟔𝟖𝟎 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

It was the most successful Indigenous uprising and one that would ensure survival of Pueblo people. It took place in August 1680. It would also re-script Pueblo-Spanish relations in what is known today as New Mexico. In spite of it being obscured over the years, recent scholarship about the Indigenous uprising has revealed that slavery was one of the primary causes of the revolt, exacerbated by religious animosities, famine & illness, all well documented in the archival record.

As Historian Andrés Reséndez argues, "In the course of the 17th c., the silver economy expanded, and it was New Mexico's misfortune to function as a reservoir of coerced labor and a source of cheap products for the silver mines. It did not take the bad behavior of too many Spanish governors, friars, & colonists--compelling Indians to carry salt, robbing their pelts, locking them up in textile sweatshops, & organizing raiding parties to procure Apache slaves-- to bring about widespread animosity, resentment, & ultimately rebellion."

Reséndez makes this case based on 3 types of evidence, summarized below:

I. 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬. In 1681 nine Pueblo men were captured and brought before the governor to ascertain the cause of the revolt. Their depositions were recorded beginning in 1681 and 1682. Eighty-year old Pedro Naranjo of San Felipe declared that in the wake of the revolt, the Indians had finally remained "free from the work demanded by the friars and the other Spaniards which they could no longer bear, and that this was the real reason and legitimate cause that they had to rise up." A 20 year old ladino (Hispanicized) Indian named Joseph also noted, "the causes generally given were the ill treatment and abuses that the Indians received... from Alonso Garcia... Luis de Quintana, & Diego Lopez because they had hit them and taken away what they had and made them work without paying them anything."

II. 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠. Reséndez makes the point that the revolt was "long in the making" and that the 30 year period of unrest corresponds with commercial ties between NM and the silver mines of northern Mexico. New Mexican officials responded to these opportunities by seizing Indian products, pressing Natives into work in textile sweatshops & raiding rancherias to procure slaves. While a few sources mention famines and epidemics, particularly in the 1660s, no testimony provided claims famine or pestilence as a cause of the revolt.

III. 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜/𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞. While the events are almost always only associated with Puebloan people, the "Great Northern Rebellion" as some scholars have referred to it, was well beyond the geography of NM and included Apaches, Mansos, Conchos, Sumas, Pimas, Janos, Salineros, Tobosos & many other groups. Two primary corridors were included, involving regions of Indigenous inhabitants that had all been subjected to "gravitational pull of the silver economy" and into the "slaving corridors leading to Parral."

In the end, these rebellions redefined labor relations in northern Mexico. Indigenous people in New Mexico, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonara & Coahuila according to Reséndez, "challenged slavery and forced important changes in the ways the traffic in humans was conducted in the following century. "

The NBU Team is working diligently to reveal just how impactful Indigenous slavery was, document by document, story by story.

[National Council for History Education @historyed]

Information is power.

Studying history gives a deep, contextual understanding of where we've succeeded, where we've faltered, and how we can improve to make the United States better for everyone. #HistoryMatters

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

Teachers, what's one thing that worked in your classroom this year?

Let's help each other out.

[Skip Rutherford @JLRIII]

Full house @ualr for the retirement reception honoring @DrJMLewis. Her public history achievements including the Dunbar High project; Little Rock Central; the Women's Emergency Committee; & the Japanese-American imprisonment camps will be lasting legacies.
@ArkansasBlog

[edutopia @edutopia]

High school English teacher @sscoffield1 says AI is here to stay, and teaching students about it is the best way to prevent misuse. Check out her 7 AI-related questions that she says every student should be able to answer. 🤖👇
https://t.co/EUi7KsycWA

[Arkansas Times @ArkTimes]

"If people were really concerned about 'the children,' they would be going after the internet, YouTube, TikTok, movies," Patty Hector said. "The sexualization of children is prevalent in those sources—very much less so in books." Read our Q&A with Hector: https://t.co/2lqyNlS1Ec

[United Nations @UN]

Civilians are #NotATarget.

They must be protected.

At all times.

Everywhere.

[Julián Castro @JulianCastro]

Agree. Joe Biden and Congressional leaders have an opportunity to demonstrate moral clarity in this moment. They should do so. The slaughter of Israelis on October 7 was wrong, and the slaughter of innocent civilians in Gaza with disproportionate force is wrong. Need a ceasefire.

[Tony Kemp @tonykemp]

TUVE.. that’s the tweet

[On AR Watch @OnARWatch1]

Emails suggest parents of kids who were already in private school jumped the line for vouchers a year or two early.

ADE did not do their due diligence to ensure this who received these first-year vouchers were actually those who need them and would qualify under disability.

[Kristin Dutcher Mann @dutchermann]

@RepFrenchHill Central #Arkansas does NOT want Jordan as speaker. Listen to your constituents!

[Kristin Dutcher Mann @dutchermann]

Shame on you, @RepFrenchHill

[Tom Mars @TomMarsLaw]

#lecterngate has been fun to follow, but it’s interfering with progress in Arkansas. @SarahHuckabee: if you committed wire fraud, do the right thing and call the US Attorney in Little Rock and confess. If you didn’t, show the world the documents of how your BFF spent the $19K.

[Kristin Dutcher Mann @dutchermann]

This project started in an @OIEAHC coffeehouse online discussion group. Thanks to all my colleagues in "The History of Stuff" and to the great suggestions from the @CommonplaceJrnl editorial board. https://t.co/D2PRuq5eoQ

[Jim Ross @rossjam]

Brooks Robinson died today. He was 86. Robinson played for the Baltimore Orioles from 1955-1977. Here he is in the October 1951 Pulaski Heights Tip Top Times, produced by students at Pulaski Heights Junior High. He was elected the first vice-president of the student council.

[Kristin Dutcher Mann @dutchermann]

My guy Adam with the nice camera work on this play!

[Sugar Land Space Cowboys @SLSpaceCowboys]

The RBI double, in all its glory