14 Facts About Pueblo Revolt

Pueblo Revolt of 1680, known as Pope's Rebellion or Popay's Rebellion, was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico, larger than present-day New Mexico.

The Pueblo Revolt killed 400 Spaniards and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province.

Onate put down a revolt at Acoma Pueblo by killing and enslaving hundreds of the Native Americans and sentencing all men 25 or older to have their foot cut off.

Pueblo Revolt gained the support of the Northern Tiwa, Tewa, Towa, Tano, and Keres-speaking Pueblos of the Rio Grande Valley.

The Pueblo revolt was typical of millenarian movements in colonial societies.

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Pope's plan was that the inhabitants of each Pueblo Revolt would rise up and kill the Spanish in their area and then all would advance on Santa Fe to kill or expel all the remaining Spanish.

Each morning the Pueblo Revolt leadership was to untie one knot from the cord, and when the last knot was untied, that would be the signal for them to rise against the Spaniards in unison.

Pueblo Revolt then led the Spaniards out of the city and retreated southward along the Rio Grande, headed for El Paso del Norte.

Later testimony to the Spanish by the Pueblo Revolt people was probably colored by anti-Pope sentiments and a desire to tell the Spanish what they wanted to hear.

Pueblo Revolt is believed to have died shortly before the Spanish reconquest in 1692.

Pueblo Revolt first encountered the Piro pueblos, which had been abandoned and their churches destroyed.

For some Puebloans, the Revolt was a success in its objective to drive away Spanish influence.

Pueblo Revolt promised the 1,000 Pueblo people assembled there clemency and protection if they would swear allegiance to the King of Spain and return to the Christian faith.

The Franciscan priests returning to New Mexico did not again attempt to impose a theocracy on the Pueblo Revolt who continued to practice their traditional religion.