Pueblo Revolt

Pueblo Revolt
Part of Spanish colonization of the Americas

Pueblo Rebellion, Loren Mozley (1936)
DateAugust 10–21, 1680
Location
Santa Fe de Nuevo México, New Spain
Result Pueblo victory, expulsion of Spanish settlers and end of Spanish rule for about 12 years.
Belligerents

 Spain

Puebloans

Commanders and leaders
Spanish Empire Antonio de Otermín Popé
See list below for others
Casualties and losses
400, including civilians Over 600

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, also known as Popé's Rebellion or Po'pay's Rebellion, was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, larger than present-day New Mexico.[1] Incidents of brutality and cruelty, coupled with persistent Spanish policies such as those that occurred in 1599 and resulted in The Ácoma Massacre, stoked animosity, gave rise to the eventual Revolt of 1680. The persecution and mistreatment of Pueblo people who adhered to traditional religious practices was the most despised of these. Scholars consider it the first Native American religious traditionalist revitalization movement.[2] The Spaniards were resolved to abolish "pagan" forms of worship and replace them with Christianity.[3] The Pueblo Revolt killed 400 Spaniards and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province. The Spaniards returned to New Mexico twelve years later.[4]

  1. ^ David Pike (2003). Roadside New Mexico (2004 ed.). University of New Mexico Press. p. 189. ISBN 0-8263-3118-1.
  2. ^ Champagne, Duane (2005). "North American Indian Religions: New Religious Movements". In Lindsay Jones (ed.). Encyclopedia of Religion: 15-volume Set. Vol. 10 (2nd ed.). Farmington Hills, Mi: Macmillan Reference USA – via Encyclopedia.com.
  3. ^ Sando, Joe S.; Agoyo, Herman (2005). Po' pay: Leader of the First American Revolution. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Clear Light Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 9781574160642.
  4. ^ The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico, Andrew L. Knaut. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman. 1995