The Oclayas Indians and their doctrineros in the 17th Century

Few, or perhaps no other group of Indians in the district of Jujuy, deserved as much attention and care, in the XVII century, from the civil and ecclesiastical authorities, as the Ocloyas. The Cabildos took interest in reducing these Indians to an urban and clean people; the Governors dictated effec...

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Main Author: Tommasini, Gabriel
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 1932
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/REUNC/article/view/6501
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Summary:Few, or perhaps no other group of Indians in the district of Jujuy, deserved as much attention and care, in the XVII century, from the civil and ecclesiastical authorities, as the Ocloyas. The Cabildos took interest in reducing these Indians to an urban and clean people; the Governors dictated effective measures, in order to locate them in comfortable places and provided with indispensable elements for life; the Bishops deployed their zeal with the purpose of providing them with competent Doctrineros; the Missionaries always showed determined will to initiate them in the practice of the Christian life. But in this union of views and of highly humanitarian and Christian civilization purposes, which they all pursued together, a conflict of great resonance arose among the Doctrineros.