The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 101
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Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New, Mexico in 1680 101
quently from three to seven stories high, and were built of adobe
brick, stone, and mortar with walls several feet thick. The ground
floor of a pueblo was used only for storerooms and granaries for
the whole tribe. They had no doors, windows, or other openings
in the walls, the only means of access being by ladders to the flat
roof above, and then down through a trap door. Several feet back
from the edge of the roof of the first story were erected the walls
of the second story, and above it similarly, in the manner of re-
treating terraces, were the other stories, decreasing in size as the
pueblo rose. These upper stories had doors and windows opening
out on the flat roofs of the ones just below them, though the only
means of access from one story to another consisted of ladders,
just as these were used also in getting to the first roof. The
object in this was purely a defensive one, since the Indians could
pull up their ladders behind them and thus convert their pueblo
into a veritable fortress, from the terraces of which they could
shoot arrows and hurl stones at an enemy without much danger to
themselves. Some of these pueblos had as many as six hundred
apartments, and were easily able to hold one thousand or more
persons. Sometimes there were three or four of these buildings
so arranged as to form a square or open court between them, in
the center of which was the estufa, or religious and social meeting
place of the whole tribe. It is thus seen that in the construction
of their pueblos the Indians of New Mexico combined with the
idea of defense that of adapting their houses to their communal
system of government. With danger from the wandering and war-
like Apache and Navajo Indians removed, however, and with mod-
ern influences surrounding these people, many of the pueblos are
now being abandoned and are rapidly falling into decay.
II. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE REVOLT
1. The Plans of the Allies
The many revolutionary meetings of the chiefs and medicine
men of the northern pueblos and the personal influence of Pope
finally resulted in the formulation of plans for a general revolt.
The greatest secrecy, however, was enjoined. Only the leaders
were entrusted with the plot until a short while before the out-
break; and because Pope believed that his own son-in-law, NicolAs
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