Red Feather, the half-French brave who has traded with the Spanish for many summers, cannot read the signs of change when he comes to Santa Fe on a trading trip. His blindness to the conflict lands him behind bars in the tense days prior to the Pueblo uprising.

With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern United States. In the summer of 1680, led by a visionary shaman named Popé, the Puebloans revolted. Before then the many different Pueblo villages had never acted in concert (and never would again). Now, in total secrecy they coordinated an attack, routing the rulers in Santa...

"TAOS UPRISING [by John Green]. Set amidst the true story of the revolt in Taos, New Mexico in 1680, a young man of the Pueblo, counseled by his grandfather, Eah Walla must decide what a man should do."--Page 4 of cover. "THE LAST GUNFIGHT IN ASH FORK [by John F. Green].Young Jordie Conboy learns that legends and heroes are seldom what they seem."--Page 4 of cover. "THE STRANGER [by Edward C. Hartshorn]. In the end, everyone left Angel Rock - one...

Pakatu, a thirteen-year-old Pueblo boy, experiences conflicting emotions as his usually peaceful people wage war against the Spaniards who have banned the Pueblo religion.

"In a groundbreaking book that challenges familiar narratives of discontinuity, disease-based demographic collapse, and acculturation, Michael V. Wilcox upends many deeply held assumptions about native peoples in North America. His provocative book poses the question, What if we attempted to explain their presence in contemporary society five hundred years after Columbus instead of their disappearance or marginalization? Wilcox looks in particular...