Pueblo Revolt Of 1680 Summary
This paper represents a comparison between two different viewpoints of events that led up to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. One perspective is represented by Van Hastings Garner who has a more harmonous intrepretiation. As opposed to Henry Warner Bowden who has a more adverse account of events. A more detailed account can be found in the book What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 by David J. Weber The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, or Popé's Rebellion, was an uprising of most of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish colonizers in present day New Mexico. The Pueblo killed 400 Spanish and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province. Twelve years later the Spanish returned and were able to reoccupy New Mexico with little opposition.
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Henry Warner Bowden argues that the Pueblos and the Spaniards had a longstanding antagonsitic relationship which was made worse by events of the 1660s and 1670s. Henry Warner Bowden sees religion as the heart of both Spanish and Pueblo cultures as the primary cause of the Pueblo Revolt. He had noticed the important role religion played in the tensions between two cultures. Historians who try to understand encounters between red men and white men in the seventeenth century are immediately confronted with the problem; Indians were not literate, and they left no records of what they were studying. For centuries, the only information about the population in the Americas was dervived from European narratives Bowden bases his beliefs on the historirical sources. He uses the comparisons between Pueblo religion and Christianity as devices to better explain the nature of each religion. Converting more people to Christian practice was neverless the reason for New Mexicos existence. There had been some confict between native and Spanish priests from the start, but in 1675 the clash of cultures became more pronounced on each side with resentiment. Ceremonial chambers and many aktars were seized, dances were strictly forbidden, masks and prayer sticks were destroyed, and priests and medicinemen were imprisioned, flogged, or
Henry Warner Bowden argues that the Pueblos and the Spaniards had a longstanding antagonsitic relationship which was made worse by events of the 1660s and 1670s. Henry Warner Bowden sees religion as the heart of both Spanish and Pueblo cultures as the primary cause of the Pueblo Revolt. He had noticed the important role religion played in the tensions between two cultures. Historians who try to understand encounters between red men and white men in the seventeenth century are immediately confronted with the problem; Indians were not literate, and they left no records of what they were studying. For centuries, the only information about the population in the Americas was dervived from European narratives Bowden bases his beliefs on the historirical sources. He uses the comparisons between Pueblo religion and Christianity as devices to better explain the nature of each religion. Converting more people to Christian practice was neverless the reason for New Mexicos existence. There had been some confict between native and Spanish priests from the start, but in 1675 the clash of cultures became more pronounced on each side with resentiment. Ceremonial chambers and many aktars were seized, dances were strictly forbidden, masks and prayer sticks were destroyed, and priests and medicinemen were imprisioned, flogged, or