1.9: Po'Pay: Architect of the Great Southwest Rebellion

History: Beyond the Textbook

He lead a full-scale rebellion against Spanish rule in the American Southwest. This rebellion was so successful that it expelled the Spaniards from the region and allowed the Pueblo to return to their traditional ways...for a time. Although the Spanish would return about one decade later, the Great Southwest Rebellion, as history has come to call this 1680 event, stands out for the ruthlessness with which it was carried out, and the tenacity of the leader who planned it. This episode of History: Beyond the Textbook focuses on this leader, who spent years planning this rebellion after suffering so much in the years before: Po'Pay, a Tewa medicine man who now enjoys enshrinement in National Statuary Hall.
Key People
Po'Pay, Tewa medicine man
Don Juan de Onate, first Adelantado of New Mexico
Key Event
Great Southwest Rebellion of 1680

The second season of History: Beyond the Textbook focuses on the stories of individuals who shaped the Revolutionary era in American history, and runs from February 27-May 7.
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