week 15

In this weeks reading Stern talks about the transition that the Andean people were making to keep up economically and culturally.  Some Andean people, majority the wealthy Andean population was part of a movement called Indian Hispanism. Indian Hispanism movement separated the poor from the wealthy and exploited the poor ayllu peasantry(175).  Stern shows how the Andean community were using the Spaniards economic system to become entrepreneurs despite the unfair treatmeant of the Andean peasants in the courts and economic framework.  This is another evidence that Stern challenges  The Black Legend. 

The anti-hispanic movement of 1613 where two catholic priest were killed and including one of their own chiefs, it started nativism (176).  This nativism movement called for the rejection of christianity, laws, and totally of Spanish culture; furthermore, the nativism urged the Andean community to not even communicate with the spaniards.  Stern shows that the Andean idealist knowing that they couldn't winning a rebellious war in the battle field, so this was an attempt to try to win back nativism from the their fellow Andean peasants that were integrating into spanish culture.  They were trying to wage a mental war against the Spaniards.  The Spaniards put down this rebellion and publicly whipped and even put some under a burning stake as a punishment for the rebellion.  The spanish were trying to erase all of the Andean culture and trying to indoctrinate the Andean peasants into the Spanish culture.  Stern show the brutality of the Spanish when it came to enforcing their unfair laws on the Andean peasants.  This is the closest Stern will come to somewhat agree with The Black Legend.  The Andean people had violent rebellion and idealist rebellion and by all means did not easily surrender to the Spanish conquest, and Stern emphasizes this point in an economically and realistic way.