It starts here…..

The year is 1540, The pueblo Indians in Present Day New Mexico were being subjected to wave after wave of Spanish soldier, missionaries and settlers.  In the winter of 1540-41, The Tiguex war was fought by Váquez de Coronado against the twelve to thirteen pueblos if the Tiwa Indians, destroying relations between the two. What was he looking for? Gold and other riches in the area. What was the Laramie treaty of 1868 was about? Gold. It seems sad that many of the wars, killing of innocent tribes were all about gold. Sad considering it was something many Indian tribes cared nothing about. All they ever wanted was their homes, food and their land. It always started out the same, Invaders looking something they want, not need and here we go, conquering forces either chase off or imprison the local tribes to do their bidding. In this case, it even went as for to hobble the men of the tribes be cutting off one foot!  Váquez de Coronado had a distinct advantage due to the fact he already had over 350 armed men, a large number of spouses, slaves, and servants, and as many as 2,000 Mexican Indian allies, mostly warriors from Aztec, Purépecha, and other tribes from central and western Mexico. The expedition also brought thousands of livestock, including horses, mules, sheep, cattle, and perhaps pigs. This gives the Spanish expedition, a nearly un-defeatble status. 

Abuses were rampant during this time as tribal women were raped, the resources they had stockpiled were ravaged by the Spaniard soldiers. (Perhaps this is where Custer learned his skills.) There are many other similarities as well. To keep the Pueblo Tribe under control, The Spanish Priests also banned “all dancing”  But as it is written in the BAE book, 14^th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology  written by James Mooney- 1892-1893

The great revolt of the Pueblo Indians in August, 1680, was one of the first determined efforts made by the natives on the northern continent to throw off the yoke of a foreign oppressor. The Pueblo tribes along the Rio Grande and farther to the west, a gentle, peaceful race, had early welcomed the coining of the Spaniards, with their soldiers and priests, as friends who would protect them against the wild marauding tribes about them and teach them the mysteries of a greater •• medicine ' than belonged to their own kachinas. The hop.- soon faded into bitter disappointment.

“The soldiers, while rough and overbearing toward their 

brown-skin allies, were vet unable to protect them from the inroads to their enemies. The priests prohibited their dances and simple amusements, yet all their ringing of bells and chanting of hymns availed not to bring more rain on the crops or to turn aside the vengeful Apache. •• What have we gained by all this?" said the Pueblos one to another; "not peace and not happiness, for these new rulers will not protect us from our enemies, and take from us all the enjoyments we once knew. The pear was ripe. Pope, a medicine-man of the Tewa, had come back from a pilgrimage to the far north, where he claimed to have visited the magic lagoon of Shipapu, whence his people traced their origin and to which the souls of their dead returned after leaving this life. By these ancestral spirits he had been endowed with occult powers and commanded to go back and rouse the Pueblos to concerted effort for deliverance from the foreign yoke of the strangers. Wonderful beings were these spirit messengers. 

Swift as light and impalpable as thought, they passed under the earth from the magic lake to the secret subterranean chamber of the oracle and stood before him as shapes of fire, and spoke, telling him to prepare the strings of yucca knots and send them with tin- message to all the Pueblos far and 

near, so that in every village the chiefs might untie one knot from the string each day, and know when they came to the last knot that then was the time to strike. 

They even had their own version of Little Big Horn. 

“From the Pecos, across the Rio Grande to Zufii and the far-distant Hopi mesas, every Pueblo village accepted the yucca string and began secret preparation for the rising. The time chosen was the new moon of August, 1680, but, through a partial discovery of the plot, the explosion was precipitated on the 10th. So sudden and complete was the surprise that many Spaniards in the Pueblo country, priests, soldiers, and civilians, were killed, and the survivors, after holding out for a time under Governor Otermin at Santa Fe, fled to El Paso, and in October there remained not a single Spaniard in all New Mexico.” 

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Despite their bitter disappointment, the southern nations continued to cherish the hope of a coming redeemer, who now assumed the character of a terrible avenger of their wrongs, and the white-skin conqueror has had bloody occasion to remember that his silent peon, as he toils by blue Chapala or sits amid the ruins of his former grandeur in the dark forests of Yucatan, yet waits ever and always the coming of the day which shall break the power of the alien Spaniard and restore to their inheritance the children of Anahuac and Mayapan. In Peru the natives refused to believe that the last of the Incas had perished a wanderer in the forests of the eastern Cordilleras. For more than two centuries they cherished the tradition that he had only retired to another kingdom beyond the mountains, from which he would return in his own good time to sweep their haughty oppressors from the laud. 

In 1781 the slumbering hope found expression in a terrible insurrection under the leadership of the mestizo Condorcanqui, a descendant of the ancient royal family, who boldly proclaimed himself the long lost Tupac Amaru, child of the sun and Inca of Peru. With mad enthusiasm the Quichua highlanders hailed him as their destined deliverer and rightful sovereign, and binding around his forehead the imperial fillet of the Incas, he advanced at the head of an immense army to the walls of Cuzco, declaring his purpose to blot, out the very memory of the white man and reestablish the Indian empire in the City of the Sun. Inspired by the hope of vengeance on the conqueror, even boys became leaders of their people, and it was only alter a bloody struggle of two years' duration that the Spaniards were able to regain the mastery and consigned the captive Inca, with all his family, to an ignominious and barbarous death. Even then so great was the feeling of veneration which he had inspired in the breasts of the Indians that "notwithstanding their fear of the Spaniards, and though they were surrounded by soldiers of the victorious army, they prostrated them selves at the sight of the last of the children of the sun. as lie passed along the streets to the place of execution."

The cycle of imprisonment essentially began here. The same steps and planning to colonize-even civilize the Pueblo. Their uprising is no more surprising or unexpected that it was in 1890,  So why did they continue to try the same methods knowing the outcome, and challenges? It is said the definition of insane is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. Was the Government insane?  This is way more than Manifest destiny. 

They knew to conquer and take what they wanted meant one thing, Take control of any tribe that stood in their way. They used their Christian belief of bearing witness to God to force them to bear the burden of their greed. When that did not work, they systematically attacked, and even allowed other tribes to attack a weakened tribe, only to come in and mop up the mess they created. Arms and weapons were given to rival tribes, in order for them to gain the upper had. What tribe got the weapons depended on the mood and what they wanted to take from the losing tribe. In the case of the Sioux, It was the black Hills, A bankrupt country with bankrupt morals, set their sights on gold and riches. It is no different today. We have the Sioux and so many tribes living in a forced prison state. (We call them reservations), and when we want something, we just force it. Like the XL pipeline. And more than likely it will continue. As we continue this journey together. I will do my best to find the truth, but it is up to you to form your own opinion and ideals on what in my heart and mind can only be described as “One of he great failures in mankind”