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In August 1680, an alliance of Puebloan peoples, led by a mysterious religious man named Po’pay (also spelled Popé), launched a surprise attack that forced the Spanish entirely out of New Mexico 82 years after they had first settled it. Po’pay’s rebellion would combine elements that will remind longstanding listeners of King Philip’s War in New England and Opechancanough’s surprise attack in Virginia in March 1622. Unlike the Wampanoags and the Pamunkeys, however, Po’pay would achieve his war aims.
Along the way we examine the causes of the revolt, the preparations for the ambush, and the terrible first days setting up the siege of Santa Fe, which will be taken up next time.
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Primary references for this episode (Commission earned for Amazon purchases through the episode notes on our website)
John L. Kessell, Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico
Charles Wilson Hackett, “The Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico in 1680,” The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, October 1911.
Herbert E. Bolton, The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest
Andrew L. Knaut, The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
David Roberts, The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion that Drove the Spaniards
