Juan de Oñate
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Juan de Oñate y Salazar was a Novohispanic conquistador, explorer and viceroy of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain, in the present-day U.S. state of New Mexico.
Equestrian statue of Juan de Oñate, Alcalde, New Mexico
Texas Historical Marker for Don Juan de Oñate and El Paso del Río Norte
Oñate's 1605 "signature graffiti" on Inscription Rock, in El Morro National Monument
Historic Marker at "Paraje de Fra Cristobal," Rio Grande crossing
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.
Juan de Oñate
…tribes in their homelands there. Oñate founded settlements in the province, now in the Southwestern United States. Oñate is notorious for the 1599 Ácoma Massacre. This series of events transpired after Oñate sent his nephew, Juan de Zaldívar, to ask Acoma Pueblo to submit to the Spanish throne and Catholicism…
A lithograph of Ácoma Pueblo made in 1848