The account of the settlement of the American West is very rarely told as one of aboriginal American triumph . American Indian clan battled for their life as colonists lied to them , seized their land and erased or distort their group identities .
But on anepisodeof Stuff You Missed in History Class , hosts Tracy V. Wilson and Holly Frey see the story of how , for a period , Native American tribes were able to dismantle an tyrannical organisation by rising against colonial powers in a remarkable agency .
First , permit ’s establish that when we say " Pueblo Revolt , " we ’re take a non - native approach to Native American individuality . Spanish colonists used the term " pueblo " to denote basically any indigenous someone in the Southwest U.S. who survive in an established community dominated by household calledpueblos . In fact , there were many different groups of native peoples who had their own governments , custom and even language .
When the Spanish began settling in earnest in present - 24-hour interval New Mexico at the turn of the sixteenth one C , they conquered the pueblo peoples through religious missionary conversion and destruction of the biotic community ' centers and spiritual relics . They also bring with them disease — much of the pueblo population was destroyed by illness and epidemic from contact with colonist .
As the devastation of religious practices combined with other disasters , including a long drouth that induce famine , many pueblo peoples began to finger that their prohibition from drill their religious belief was causing them serious harm . Pueblo leaders began agitate for a return to their trust , and in 1675 , 47 spiritual figures in the pueblo communities were sentenced to slavery or executed for " sorcery " and rebellion . One of those leaders , Popé , was released from prison but started organizing up and down the Rio Grande Valley to plan a coordinated rebellion .
That ’s no small project : Villages were circulate over hundreds of knot , and the variety of language made communication hard . But Popé had a plan . Each village was give a knotted rope , with instructions to unwrap one knot a day . On the last solar day , in August of 1680 , they would uprise up against the oppressive Spanish settler and missionaries .
And the revolt process — the surviving Spaniards flee . But there ’s a destiny more to the story than just a cagy start . Holly and Tracy explain how the autochthonal peoples take on the colonists … and stayed barren of them for years . Tune into thisepisodeof stuff and nonsense You Missed in History Class to see more about this entrancing history of the American West .
