Colonial New Mexico

northernmost of Mexico City‘s four "royal roads"

1680 Indigenous Pueblo uprising against Spanish colonizers

province of New Spain (1598-1821), territory of Mexico (1821-1846), provisional government of the USA (1846-1850)

'''Po'pay, sometimes spelled Popé''', (, , ; – ) was a Tewa religious leader from Ohkay Owingeh, who led the Pueblo Revolt in 1680 against Spanish colonial rule. In the first successful anticolonial revolt against a European colonial power in the Western Hemisphere, the Pueblo expelled the colonists and kept them out of the territory for twelve years. Thereafter, Po'pay ruled over the Pueblo peoples until his death.

Spanish military expedition in North America

The Hopi-Tewa (also Tano, Southern Tewa, Hano, Thano, or Arizona Tewa) are a Tewa Pueblo group that resides on the eastern part of the Hopi Reservation on or near First Mesa in northeastern Arizona.

Spanish journey of exploration

human settlement in New Mexico, United States of America

thumb|right | Painting of a Comanchero or Comanche Indian by George Catlin, in 1835 The Comancheros were a group of 18th- and 19th-century traders based in northern and central New Mexico. They made their living by trading with the nomadic Great Plains Indian tribes in northeastern New Mexico, West Texas, and other parts of the southern plains of North America.

church building in New Mexico, United States of America