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Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico in 1680 113
his family, and also Don Joseph de Goitia; while, among others,
Dofia Pertonilla de Salas and her eight or ten children were
missing.'
(4) The Oulbreak at Santa Clara and San Juan.-Situated
on the west bank of the Rio, Grande, only a few leagues apart,
were the pueblos of Santa Clara and San Juan, while nearby was
the Spanish settlement of La Cafiada.2 These two pueblos con-
tained in 1680 a population of three hundred Indians each, and
both were religious visitas of San Ildefonso, the large pueblo of
their nation further south. In the revolt both Santa Clara and
San Juan took a leading part, it being at the latter pueblo that
the first plans were formulated by Pop6 and the other northern
chiefs, before Pop6 was driven from there to Taos by the persecu-
tions of Francisco Xavier. But, notwithstanding the active part
played by these pueblos both before the revolt and afterward, the
story of the outbreak as it actually occurred in them is very in-
complete, and the few facts that are recorded must not be taken
as a complete narrative of the events at those places. It is merely
the best possible with the sources available.
The only recorded incidents of the uprising in Santa Clara took
place about dawn on the morning of Saturday, the 10th of August,
when the Indians of that pueblo attacked two soldiers, Marcos
Ramos and Felipe Lbpez, who were in an escort with six other
men led by Captain Francisco de Anaya. The two soldiers in
question were slain in the pueblo, while the others, who were
guarding a herd of horses on the outside, were able to escape,3
though the wife and children of Anaya were carried off by the
Indians, while a youth named BartolomB Griego was later re-
ported as having been killed.4
Of the outbreak at San Juan no specific details are given, and
the only martyr priest mentioned as having met his fate there was
"'Auto y declarasion del mro de camPo gomez," in Auttos tocantes, 4.
'The settlement of Spaniards known as La Cafiada (see, "Auto de
Otermin," in Auttos tocantes, 5; Autos of Garcea, his alcaldes and
others, Ibid., 23) was doubtless near, or identical with, the old Tewa
pueblo known as Santa Cruz de La Canada, which is not mentioned by
Vetancur, but which Hodge (Handbook of American Indsns, Part 2, 458)
says was abandoned by the Indians about 1680.
8"Dilijencia Y declaration," in Auttos tocantes, 4.
"'Auto y declarasion del mro de camPo Franco gomez" . . ., in Auttos
tocantes, 4.
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