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Po’Pay: The Pueblo Hero Who Led the First American Revolution
The First American Revolution was not in 1775. It happened 100 years earlier.
When conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado arrived in the Southwest in 1540, he imposed Requerimiento, or requirements, on the Native Americans. This religious doctrine authorized the Spanish to subjugate Native Americans and force them to abandon their own faiths. According to the document, meant to be read by conquistadors to the Indian people, failing to submit would have dire consequences: “We will take you and your wives and children and make them slaves, and as such we will sell them, and will dispose of…
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