The Chichimeca peace and the Tlaxcalan settlements of the north (1590-1591)

New Spain stopped buying soldiers for the Zacatecas road and started buying peace: capitulaciones negotiated by a mestizo captain who spoke Guachichil, four hundred married Tlaxcalan households moved north at the treasury's cost to live beside the people they had fought, and a crown allowance of meat and cloth. The Franciscan who records the policy records its price: the persecutions that helped bring the Chichimecas in, the refusal to intermarry, and seventy Tlaxcalans killed.