Po'pay
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Po'pay, sometimes spelled Popé, was a Tewa cacique from Ohkay Owingeh, who led the Pueblo Revolt in 1680 against Spanish colonial rule and became the ruling cacique of the Pueblo confederation.
Statue of Po'pay by Cliff Fragua (2005) representing New Mexico in the National Statuary Hall
Bear fetish & knotted cord
scars on back
Pueblo Revolt
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The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, also known as the Pueblo Revolution, First American Revolution, Po'pay's Rebellion or Popé's Rebellion, was a revolution of most of the Indigenous Pueblo peoples led by Po'p
Po'pay
…Po'pay, sometimes spelled Popé, (Tewa: Poˀpʼay, pronounced , lit. 'ripe squash'; c. 1630 – c. 1692) was a Tewa cacique from Ohkay Owingeh, who led the Pueblo Revolt in 1680 against Spanish colonial rule and became the ruling cacique of the Pueblo confederation (1680-1683). A religious leader known as a cacique from…
Pueblo Rebellion, Loren Mozley (1936)
The location of the Pueblo villages and their neighbors in early New Mexico.
Taos Pueblo, Po'pay's base during the revolt
The Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, seen here in a 1930s postcard, was besieged by the Pueblo in August 1680.