Paperback .American historian and author Ramon Gutierrez’s When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (1991) recounts the history of the Pueblo people whose civilization, along with many of its cultural touchstones, were decimated upon the arrival of Spanish colonists in the sixteenth century. The author places particular emphasis on the specific gender roles of Pueblo society and how Spanish settlers upended many of these indispensable qualities of Pueblo culture
