It is the ancestral homeland of sedentary Tanoan and Keresan Pueblo Indian peoples, who diverted its waters and farmed its valleys, as well as nomadic Athabaskans (Apaches and Navajos) and Shoshoneans (Utes and Comanches), who roamed and hunted its mountains and deserts, alternately raiding and trading with the Pueblos. ... However, the over-zealous methods of the Franciscan fathers entrusted with the project led to the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, which totally restored native religion. ... About 6% of New Mexico's population is Indian, but culturally and economically the Indians are signific...

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This lead to a tribe known as The Pueblos being tired of the restriction of practicing their religion to revolt, which is known as the Pueblo revolt. In 1680 the Pueblo Indians rose up and defeating the Spaniards, crushing all signs Catholicism became a symbol to the Indians that they were done with the Spanish way of life. Pueblos retaliated by burning catholic churches, killing priest and destroying everything that represented the catholic religion. A man of the name Josephe, who was a Spanish speaking Indian, interpreted the motivations behind the Pueblo revolt when being questions by the...

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