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Winner Pope or "Ripe Squash" was whipped, imprisoned, and groomed for war. The great madman coveted
Spanish authority and replaced it with his own oppressive variant. Although the pugnacious militant and regime-changer
effectively removed the unhappy yoke of foreign domination along the Rio Grande during the violent Pueblo Revolt of 1680,
others postured themselves better for the expected reconquista.
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Winner Fray Francisco de Ayeta was father-quartermaster of the Franciscan order in New Mexico during the horrible
years of drought, famine, disease, disorder, uncertainty, unrest, and the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. Upon his request,
Murderers and thieves, recently released from jail, were expected to defend the unhappy NM colony.
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Loser General Pedro de Leiva was a beneficiary of encomiendas and lived on a hacienda. Three sons, his wife,
three daughters, and eight grandchildren were massacred by Pueblo revolutionaries in 1680 as he protected the
crown's charitable caravan at El Paso del Norte.
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Juan Severino de Suballe lived north of Socorro. Encomenderos like Severino prospered as long as the
exploitation of pueblo labor was enforced and weather permitted. The encomienda system abolished in 1791
was succeeded by the hacienda system.
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Loser Captain Agustin de Carbajal and Loser Don Cristobal de Anaya were wiped out;
their beautiful estates sacked and their families murdered in 1680 by indignant Pueblos.
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Winner Don Alonso Garcia owned an estate and lived like a lord at his walled hacienda as lieutenant-general of
New Mexico. Imagining no survivors at Sante Fe, he refused to lead a relief party of soldiers north in 1680 against the
angry Pueblos.
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Winner Gonzales Bernal frantically escaped with his life and family from his adobe hacienda, proudly
called Bernalillo.
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Winner Fray Diego de Mendoza joined the parade of refugees and walked the trail of humiliation out
of Pueblo country in 1680.
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Loser King Charles II ruled Spain when the Pueblos liberated themselves from the local whim of alcalde mayor
or "high judge" in all towns north of El Paso after 82 years of occupation. El Hechizado, or The Hexed was mentally
retarded and lived longer than expected.
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Loser Fray Francisco Antonio Lorenzazana, Juan de Talaban, and Jose Montés de Oaca were killed at Santo Domingo,
headquarters of the Catholic faith. 400 Spaniards were murdered and 2000 colonists were cast out of New Mexico in
1680 during one of Christendom's most humiliating retreats.
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Loser Nicolas Bua was the Spanish-appointed Indian governor of Tewa pueblo at San Juan, regidores
because he was the most trustworthy man of the pueblo, and the husband of Pope's daughter. His allegiance to Spain
was rewarded; he became a rich and important man. Bua, the loyal subject, was assassinated before August 10, 1680.
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Loser Dona Petronila de Salas was butchered along with her ten sons and daughters.
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Loser Thome Dominquez de Mendoza and 38 people were slaughtered like conchinos at his "guarded" plantation.
"It was a good day to kill Catholics," said a pueblo from the four sacred mountains.
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Loser Jose de Espelata and Augustin de Santa Maria were hunkered down behind a closed door inside their priest's
quarters when the roof was penetrated by Hopi warriors. All missionaries in the western pueblos were slaughtered - one at
Acoma, one at Zuni, and four friars amoung the Hopi.
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Winner Diego de Santiago was a big black elder. He lived in a Taos kiva and communed with three spirits of
the underworld, called Caudi, Tilini, and Tleume. His mystic credibility was great and his social status was supernatural.
No one challenged his claim of speaking with the Pueblo war god. He advised Pope and predicted a violent victory over
the Spanish.
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Winner Rebel Leader Alonso Catiti from the Keresan pueblo of Santo Domingo and Winner Tupatu from the Tiwa
village of Picuris and Winner Jaca of the Tiwa village at Taos supported Pope and expanded the conspiracy against
Spanish soverignty.
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