Product Description: In a groundbreaking book that challenges familiar narratives of discontinuity, disease-based demographic collapse, and acculturation, Michael V. Wilcox upends many deeply held assumptions about native peoples in North America. His provocative book poses the question, What if we attempted to explain their presence in contemporary society five hundred years after Columbus instead of their disappearance or marginalization? Wilcox looks in particular at the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in colonial New Mexico, the most successful indigenous rebellion in the Americas, as a case study for dismantling the mythology of the perpetually vanishing Indian...read more

An account of the lesser-known successful Pueblo Revolt against the Spanish in 1680 discusses the search for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola that led to the oppression of Native Americans in the Southwest, recounting how a San Juan shaman united traditionally autonomous pueblos in the uprising. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is a popular topic in Borderlands history and southwestern anthropology. Historians have generally regarded it as an extraordinary and pivotal event and have sought to understand its causes and consequences, using an overarching frontier model tied to the expansion of the Spanish empire...read more

Product Description: This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780–82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903...read more

Product Description: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is a popular topic in Borderlands history and southwestern anthropology. Historians have generally regarded it as an extraordinary and pivotal event and have sought to understand its causes and consequences, using an overarching frontier model tied to the expansion of the Spanish empire...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'Succinct but well-told story of the Pueblo Revolt, popularly written and based on published primary and secondary sources. Uses insights developed by ethnohistorians. Emphasizes Spanish brutality'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.