Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule in Nueva VizcayaIn their efforts to impose colonial rule on Nueva Vizcaya from the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, Spaniards established missions among the principal Indian groups of present day eastern Sinaloa, northern Durango, and southern Chihuahua, Mexico the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepehuanes, and Tarahumaras. Yet, when the colonial era ended two centuries later, only the Tepehuanes and Tarahumaras remained as distinct peoples, the other