Acoma Pueblo
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Acoma Pueblo is a Native American pueblo approximately 60 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States.
Dwellings on the mesa at Acoma Pueblo
Houses at Acoma Pueblo, 1941. Photo by Ansel Adams
Acoma Pueblo Sky City aerial view
A view of the Acoma Pueblo mesa from the northwest
1599 Acoma massacre
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The Acoma Massacre was a punitive expedition by Spanish conquistadors at the Acoma Pueblo in January, 1599. Around 500 Acoma men and 300 women and children were killed during the three-day onslaught.
Acoma Pueblo
…and Bempol (a recruited Apache war leader). On January 21, 1599, Vicente de Zaldívar (Juan de Zaldívar's brother) reached Acoma with 70 soldiers. The Acoma Massacre started the next day and lasted for three days. On January 23, men were able to climb the southern mesa unnoticed by Acoma guards and breach the pueblo…
A lithograph of Ácoma Pueblo made in 1848