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Article: Popé (1630?-1690?)
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(1630?-1690?)
Pueblo religious and political leader
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Early Spanish Contact.
Pop
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was a revolutionary leader of the Pueblo peoples of present-day southwestern United States. When conquistadores under Francisco V
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squez de Coronado passed through Pueblo territory in 1540
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1542 the Pueblo peoples were forced out of their homes temporarily but returned to them for a full generation before the Spanish reappeared. Rumors of gold and the desire to avenge old wounds stimulated Spanish interest, and by 1590 a short-lived Spanish colony was established near the village the Europeans named Santo Domingo. Finally in 1591 the scion of a wealthy immigrant family, ...
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