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JUAN DE OÑATE AND THE PUEBLO (POPÉ’S) REVOLT

JUAN DE OÑATE

SPANISH CONQUEST AND EXPLORATION IN THE NEW WORLD, 1500-1600

Source: Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th edition

JUAN DE OÑATE

Acoma, the “sky city”

JUAN DE OÑATE

JUAN DE OÑATE

PUEBLO (POPÉ’S) REVOLT

EXCERPTED FROM DECLARATION OF PEDRO INTERVIEWING NARANJO

NARANJO OF THE QUERES NATION

Asked what causes or motives said Indian rebels had for renouncing the law of God and obedience to his Majesty, and committing such grave and atrocious crimes, [he answered] the causes they have were alleged ill treatment and injuries received from the Spanish, because they had beat them, took away what they had and made them work without pay.

PUEBLO (POPÉ’S) REVOLT

• Significance:• The only successful expulsion

of European settlers in the history of North America

• Pueblo Indians believed they had reestablished the freedom lost through Spanish conquest

• By 1692, the Spanish had reconquered New Mexico as the Pueblo alliance disintegrated• But Spain was more tolerant

towards traditional religion and made fewer labor demands

PUEBLO (POPÉ’S) REVOLT