What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680? » (1st Edition)

DAVID J. WEBER is Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History and director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. He has written many books, including The Spanish Frontier in North America (1992), and was a Fulbright lecturer at the Universidad de Costa Rica. He is a past president of the Western History Association and the only American historian elected to membership in both the Mexican Academy of History and the Society of American Historians.

What caused the Pueblo revolt of 1680? This now-famous revolt marked the end of 80 years of peaceful coexistence between Spaniards and Pueblos; historians have long struggled to understand the complex reasons for the sudden and dramatic breakdown of relations. In this volume, 5 historians examine the factors that led to the unprecedented collaboration among tribes separated by distance, language, and historic rivalries that resulted in the destruction of Spain's New Mexico colony. Searching through what little remains of the written record, the essays present a variety of interpretations, with different emphases on culture, religion, and race.

Foreword
Preface
A Note for Students
The Pueblos in the Sixteenth Century and Their Language Groups (Map)
Spaniards and Pueblos in New Mexico: A Chronology

PART I. INTRODUCTION

Pueblos, Spaniards, and History
Pueblos and Spaniards Historians and the Pueblo Revolt

PART II. SOME CURRENT QUESTIONS

1. Did Pueblos revolt to save their traditions?
Henry Warner Bowden, Spanish Missions, Cultural Conflict, and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680

2. Did Francisicans invite martyrdom?
Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Franciscans and the Pueblo Revolt, From When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846

3. Did Pueblos revolt to save their lives?
Van Hastings Garner, Seventeenth-Century New Mexico, the Pueblo Revolt, and Its Interpreters

4. Did the right leader make the revolt possible?
Angélico Chávez, Popé-yemo's Representative and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680

5. Did the Spaniards' loss of authority encourage the revolt?
Andrew L. Knaut, Acculturation and Miscegenation: The Changing Face of the Spanish Presence in New Mexico, From The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico

Making Connections
Suggestions for Further Reading