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𝐎𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬 – 𝐒𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐬 The sacramental records from the Americas are filled with the entries of the enslaved: baptisms, marriages, and burials. In a book of burials recorded in the church of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, New Mexico, there is a curious entry made in June 1733. Although he represented them as “others” and perhaps meant to cast aspersions post-mortem, Fray José Manuel de Eguía y Lumbre, reveals in his notation how these particular enslaved once resisted language, indoctrination and even where they are finally laid to rest. He writes: “Other bodies of Indian servants are in Santa Clara, buried against my wishes, Indian servants to Diego Martín [and] Jerónimo Martín. Another [body] of a female Indian of Juan Tafoya [is buried] in this cemetery [Villa Nueva de Santa Cruz]. There are other [bodies] of Indians, servants to Antonio Martín and Cisneros; and to others. They do not even know how to speak [Spanish], nor do I know them, nor have they offered me anything, nor do they accept advice, nor do they listen to doctrine, nor is there anyone who can guide them. Their entries are not duly recorded.” The entry is also notable for various reasons, a reflection of a network of kin-based enslavers, the permeable boundaries of Indigenous communities like Santa Clara Pueblo and Spanish settlements like Santa Cruz and how geography and communities functioned in the colonial period to demarcate what may be resistance or alliance. Surrounding this entry, in these two pages, alone, are the recordings of the enslavers and the enslaved, including the following deceased, released only in death from their bondage: Ignacio (Apache-adult); Felipa (Apache-adult); Antonio (Comanche-adult); Rosa (Apache); Teresa (Apache, 14); Antonio (Apache, 14); Rosa (Apache, 20); Rosa (Apache, 30); Rosa (Apache, 30); Juan Ventura (Apache, 14); Antonio (Apache, 27). While these eleven names will be included in the project, we are also deeply committed to locating the names of those othered by Fray Eguía, and the many unnamed, or to at least point to their burial, so many obscured in the colonial archive.