Seeking Strength and Protection: Tewa Mobility during the Pueblo Revolt Period

Summary

The Pueblo Revolt period (1680-1700) was a time of considerable social unrest and instability for Pueblo Indian people. The return of the Spaniards twelve years after the 1680 revolt required new strategies of resistance. Mobility became a key form of resistance and, the Tewa world in particular, provided a landscape in which pueblo communities could seek the strength and protection to survive. Many families left their home villages and took refuge with their relatives on mesa villages and in isolated mountain camps. In some cases, Pueblo leaders sent their women and children away for safety and security. In this paper, we consider mobility among the the Tewa people, across their landscape during the Spanish Reconquest, as resistance strategy. Particular attention will be paid to the mobility strategies of San Ildefonso Pueblo to mesatop and upland areas during the reconquest.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Becoming

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Abstract Id(s): 15359