The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 133
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Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico in 1680 133
Otermin decided to call in the settlers from La Cafiada, and these,
who were then the only inhabitants of the northern jurisdictions
alive outside of the villa, together with the inhabitants of Los
Cerillos, who reached Santa Fe the night before, were, according
to Otermin's sworn statement, the only inhabitants outside of the
environs of the villa who were able to reach there.1 Conse-
quently, in those places where the settlers themselves did not
learn of the plans of the Indians, they were completely taken off
their guard by this sudden and unexpected revolt, with the results
as previously stated in the story of the outbreak in the different
pueblos.
Early on the morning of the next day (August 10) Otermin
became aware of the uprising of the Indians north of Santa F6,
when the soldier named Pedro Hidalgo returned from Tesuque,
only two leagues north of the villa, with the news that all the in-
habitants of that pueblo and of Cuyamunque were in arms, having
already killed Fray Juan Pio as he was attempting to say mass to
the Christian apostates, while he himself narrowly escaped. Im-
mediately upon the receipt of this news Otermin took active meas-
ures for safeguarding his own jurisdiction against any possible
Indian hostilities. Having already dispatched his orders and ad-
vices to the different alcaldes mayores of the province, and as the
tenor of his auto2 of that date shows, having no apparent anxiety
concerning their ability to cope successfully with any possible hos-
tilities in their respective jurisdictions, Otermin now took meas-
ures to put the villa in a better state of defense. Accordingly,
Francisco Xavier, the secretary of government and war, was in-
structed to assemble all the people of the jurisdiction of Santa F
and its environs in the royal houses (casas reales) in order that
offensive and defensive plans against the enemy might be adopted
if the nature of the case should demand it (si llegare el caso).
At the same time all the royal arquebuses, blunderbusses, swords,
daggers, shields, and munitions which were in the armory and
"Auto (de Otermin)," in Auttos tocantes, 32.
""Auto (de Otermin)," in Auttos tocantes, 3. This auto begins as
follows: "Luego Yncontinente en dho dia mes Y ano dhos su ssa el Sr
govor y Capn gen dijo que por qo tiene despachadas sus hordenes a los
alealdes mayores pa que den abiso en sus partidos Y se asista a la defensa
de los Santos templos por que no sean profanados del henemigo .
mdo a el SSo de govon y gua aga rrecojer a estas casas Rs toda la Jente."
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912, periodical, 1912; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101056/m1/138/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.