In August 1680 the Pueblo Indians of northern New Mexico arose
in fury to slay their Spanish colonial overlords and drive any
survivors from the land. Andrew Knaut explores eight decades of New
Mexican history leading up to the revolt, explaining how the
newcomers had disrupted Pueblo life in far-reaching ways - they
commandeered the Indians' food stores, exposed the Pueblos to new
diseases, interrupted long-established trading relationships, and
sparked increasing raids by surrounding Athapaskan nomads. The
Pueblo Indians' violent success stemmed from an almost
unprecedented unity of disparate factions and sophistication of
planning in secrecy. When Spanish forces retook the colony in the
1690s, freedom proved short-lived. But the revolt stands as a
vitally important yet neglected historical landmark: the only
significant reversal of European expansion by Native American
people in the New World.
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