Indian Uprising on the Rio Grande: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

by Franklin Folsom

Book Overview

This award-winning account of the Pueblo Revolt, originally published in 1973 as Red Power on the Rio Grande, is told from the point of view of the Native American villagers of the Rio Grande Valley. Folsom equates the Pueblos' desire to control their own destiny to that of the Americans in 1776 and reveals the harshness of Spanish rule.

Not only were the Pueblos taxed and forced to labor for the Spanish, they were frequently sold...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082631743X
• ISBN13: 9780826317438
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.0"