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How Rebelling Pueblos Put 3,000 Spanish to Hasty Flight |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Bill Croke |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 952 Words, 6,269 Characters |
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THE PUEBLO REVOLT: THE SECRET REBELLION THAT DROVE THE SPANIARDS OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST
By David Roberts
Simon & Schuster, $25, 279 pages, illus.
In 1680, a well-coordinated uprising in the northern province of Nuevo Mexico resulted in the expulsion of the entire colonial Spanish population numbering roughly three thousand. The revolt was the brainchild of one Pope (pronounced "Popay"), a "sorcerer," who had previously been imprisoned by the Spaniards.
The conspiracy, beginning on August 9, manifested itself by the simultaneous rising of twenty different pueblos (Jemez, Taos, Pecos, et al., permanent adobe towns founded by the Anasazi, who had migrated to the Rio Grande Valley from the Four Corners area in the thirteenth century) scattered across present northern New...
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...e Southwest is strangely reminiscent of the events of the seventeenth century. Hispanics are the fastest-growing demographic in the region. The descendants of the puebloans are still largely homogeneous and distrustful of both Hispanics and "Anglos." David Roberts' book illustrates the fact that, in some ways, nothing has changed in three hundred years.
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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