Bibliography for Pueblo Revolt and Syncretism Project
For my primary sources, I’m planning on drawing from documents in Volume 3 of Historical Documents Relating to New Mexico, Nueva Vizcaya, and Approaches Thereto, to 1773. This collection of primary resources was compiled by Adolph F. A. Bandelier and Fanny R. Bandelier and features English translations of primarily Spanish correspondence.
I may also draw upon another English translation of a Governor Diego de Vargas’s journal found on the New Mexico Digital Collections site (https://nmdc.unm.edu/digital/collection/ritchpapers/id/405/rec/4). Diego de Vargas references therein encounters with various Pueblo representatives and is a fascinating look into the Reconquest.
One other interesting curiosity is The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630. United States, Priv. Print. [R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company], 1916. This was a correspondence by Fray Alonso de Benavides to the Spanish Crown in 1630, translated to English, which provides some intriguing insights into now “extinct” Pueblos and even attempts to convert my Navajo ancestors. The document is replete with obvious hyperbole as Benavides was trying to present his efforts in a successful light, but it illustrates the simple good-evil binary that framed those early conversion efforts. This dynamic would become more complex as the decades wore on (which I will describe in the first draft of the assignment).
Secondary sources are plentiful, but a couple that are especially illuminating are:
When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 by Ramón A. Gutiérrez (Stanford University Press, 1991)
The Kachina and the Cross: Indians and Spaniards in the Early Southwest by Carroll L. Riley (University of Utah Press, 1999)
New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest, edited by John G. Douglass and William M. Graves (University Press of Colorado, 2017)
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico by Andrew L. Knaut (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015)
Article: “Women, Men, and Cycles of Evangelism in the Southwest Borderlands, A.D. 750 to 1750.” The American Historical Review, vol. 118, no. 3, by James F. Brooks (Oxford University Press, American Historical Association, 2013)
Other media sources include:
A lecture by Asst. Professor Porter Swentzell on the Pueblo Revolt: (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QFiLykVV3I)
Various oral stories (that have since been document in dispersed places) regarding the post-Revolt period, including the destruction of the Hopi village of Awat’ovi.
