Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico’s Gran Nayar, 1910–1940, Nathaniel Morris, 2020, University of Arizona Press
In June 1928 a column of Mexican federal soldiers hunting cristero rebels was ambushed in the mountains of southern Durango on a ridge known as Cerro de las Papas (Potato Hill).
The massacre that followed remains notorious because the troops had been betrayed by their Indigenous guides and . . .
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