Pueblo Revolt Captures Santa Fe

Date: August 21, 1680 • Location: Santa Fe, United States

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1680.

Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.

The Pueblo peoples, sometimes referred to as Puebloans, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. Among the currently inhabited pueblos, Taos, San Ildefonso, Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi are some of the most commonly known. Pueblo people speak languages from four different language families, and each pueblo is further divided culturally by kinship systems and agricultural practices, although all cultivate varieties of corn (maize).