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Pueblo Rebellion, (1680), carefully organized revolt of Pueblo Indians (in league with Apaches), who succeeded in overthrowing Spanish rule in New Mexico for 12 years. A traditionally peaceful people, the Pueblos had endured much after New Mexico’s colonization in 1598.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 8, 2024 · The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 — also known as Popé’s Rebellion — was an uprising by the Pueblo People, led by a Medicine Man named Popé, against the Spanish in the Province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, or New Mexico.
- Randal Rust
On August 10, 1680, the Pueblo people, along with their Navajo and Apache allies, orchestrated what is arguably the most successful indigenous insurrection against a European colonial power in the New World.
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]
- August 10-21, 1680
- Santa Fe de Nuevo México, New Spain
The combination of the 46 different pueblos created a militia of over 2,000 indigenous people compared to the Spanish’s 170 men with arms. The date set for the uprising was August 11, 1680. Popé dispatched runners to all the Pueblos carrying knotted cords.
The Pueblo Revolt was an uprising of people from the San Juan and Hopi tribes living in Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico, against Spanish colonizers and missionaries in what is now New Mexico. It’s leader, Popé, had been captured and tried by the Spanish authorities in the 1670s for “practicing sorcery” as a medicine man.
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Feb 1, 1997 · In this slim volume, Andrew Knaut sets himself the formidable task of elucidating the “Pueblo role in shaping the history of seventeenth-century New Mexico,” a role that resulted in the Pueblos’ successful revolt of 1680 against the Spaniards in their midst.
