On this day, 10 August 1680, the Pueblo Revolt (also known as Popé's Rebellion) began in the Spanish colonial province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (present-day New Mexico, US) as the Indigenous Pueblo people rose up against the colonisers. The Native people have suffered greatly from abuses by the Spanish, who enslaved local people, and routinely hanged, whipped and dismembered them. The Spanish also tried to impose Catholicism, and violently repressed local religious practices, and burned ceremonial pits and sacred objects. Led by a medicine man named Popé, the uprising began on August 10, and by August 21 Spanish colonisers have been forced to retreat. 400 Spanish were killed, and the other 2000 Spanish settlers were expelled from the province. The uprising was successful in liberating the land for 12 years. Tens of thousands of Pueblo people still live in the area today, some in the original ancient pueblos, like Taos Pueblo, which are considered to be some of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the US. Learn more about Indigenous resistance in the Americas in our podcast episodes 88-89: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e88-89-indigenous-resistance-since-1992/ Pictured: mural depicting the rebellion by Loren Mozley
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