Early Jesuit Missions in Tarahumara

This study of the Jesuit mission system in northern Mexico is the third volume in a series focused on the Jesuit activities in Spanish North America. Building upon the second monograph, Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico (1944) , which explored the missions among the Acaxée, Xixime, and Tepehuán tribes in the Sierra Madre Occidental and plains of modern-day Coahuila, this volume takes the story further north into the Tarahumara region of present-day Chihuahua. This extension of the Jesuit missio