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Curated OER

History Matters: Pedro Naranjo Relates the Pueblo Revolt, 1680

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the resistance in 1680 by the New Mexico Pueblo Indians who resisted the Spanish attempts to subjugate them. Find out about the leader, El Pope, who was able to lead the resistance for ten years.
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Digital History

Digital History: Coexistence and Conflict in the Spanish Southwest

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the testimony of a Pueblo Indian, captured by the Spanish after the Revolt of 1680, giving his ideas of why the Indians attacked the Spanish and destroyed the images of Christianity they found.
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Other

New Mexico Office of the State Historian: Pope

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this fascinating information about Pope, the leader of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Learn how he was able to unite several tribes of Pueblo Indians who did not even speak the same language into a force that was able to push out the...
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Other

American Journeys: Revolt of the Pueblo Inidans

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the background of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 before accessing the document which is a translation of an excerpt of a book titled Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Otermin's Attempted Reconquest, 1680-1682. This document...
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Article
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Pueblo Revolt

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an essay about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and find out why the Southwest Native Americans rebelled against the Spanish, and were successful in keeping the Spanish out of their pueblos for only...
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PBS

New Perspectives on the West: The Pueblo Revolt

For Students 9th - 10th
From the PBS series "The West," comes this letter from Don Antonio de Otermin, the governor of New Mexico during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. This unique first hand account does come with a certain amount of bias, as it was written by one...
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Other

New Mexico Genealogical Society: Settlement of New Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
A good look at the settlement of New Mexico by Spanish soldier-colonists and their families in the late 16th century. See the results of their treatment of the indigenous Pueblo Indians in 1680.
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Website
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Sjc:the Spanish Re Conquest of New Mexico and the Pueblo Revolt of 1696

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the description of the Spanish re-conquest of its holdings in New Mexico following the Revolt of 1680 in which the Pueblo Indians force the Spanish out of their territory.
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Website
Duke University

Duke University: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is told with a timeline showing events leading up to the revolt, a narrative of the revolt itself and its consequences, and brief biographies of many of those involved in Spanish America, and the...
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A&E Television

History.com: Po'pay: The Little Known Pueblo Hero Who Led the First American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Nearly 100 years before the American Revolution, another war of independence took place on American soil -- against Spanish colonizers. Coordinated by Tewa leader Po'Pay, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 saved Indigenous cultures from...
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Handout
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The Old Missions of New Mexico: Pueblo Revolt of 1680

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the causes and results of the most successful Indian revolt against Spanish rule in New Mexico, the Revolt of 1680.