The Soledad Crucifixion Kenneth K. Tanaka Augustine quickly turns deadly for

Augustine quickly turns deadly for brothers Jon and Michael Rickner as an antiquities dealer is brutally murdered in his shop just minutes after meeting with them

this book is an essential counterpoint to standard narratives of the Spanish conquest

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The Soledad Crucifixion Kenneth K. Tanaka Augustine quickly turns deadly forIn the New Mexico village of Camposanto, a priest is tied to a cross made from a sacred cottonwood tree. Father Lorenzo Soledad's adversaries, the impoverished tribe called the Calabazas, observe from below, and Juan Lobo, the head man of the Calabazas, sings the Song of Passage, preparing the priest for his journey by rubbing a white powder across his brow. It's a chilly April Friday in 1897. In two days it will be Easter, but for Soledad there will