Pueblo Revolt

Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, governor of Nueva Galicia, lead an expedition of conquest from South American into the northern territory of what is now New Mexico (p 21-22). In passing through the region in which the Acoma Indians lived in 1541, Coronado’s men referred to the pueblo as “the greatest stronghold in the world,” whose inhabitants “came down to meet us peacefully, although they could have spared themselves the trouble and stayed on their rock and we would not have been able to trouble them in the least” (p 38). Here, it explains the welcoming nature of some of the Indian in the area that the Pueblo lived among. Before the Spaniards came with their missionaries and soldiers to the homes of the pueblo, they lived peacefully among one another. They had very efficient ways of living in terms of how they acquired food in the dry climate in which they lived. They had a balanced network of trading among other tribes that they had come to establish over hundreds and ...