{"id":1010,"date":"2008-04-26T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2008-04-26T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T16:08:00","slug":"the-inquisition-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"The Inquisition in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chasclifton.com\/graphics\/purissima.jpg?w=625\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This ruined church, Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de La Purisima Concepci\u00f3n de Cuarac, stands at the edge of the Southern Plains, southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/%20photo%20gallery%20http:\/\/www.jqjacobs.net\/southwest\/salinas.html\">one of three large mission churches<\/a> built in the early 1600s by forced labor from the Indians who lived at the adjacent villages. The interior is about 100 feet long.<\/p>\n<p>It is now part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/sapu\/\">Salinas Pueblos National Monument<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Constructed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franciscan_Order_in_maodern_times\">Franciscan order<\/a>, it was also the location of the Inquisition in New Mexico, which could bring charges of heresy, witchcraft, etc., against the few thousand Spanish colonists in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The remote Spanish colony of New Mexico suffered from two command structures: one religious and one secular-military, with frequent &#8220;turf wars&#8221; between them &#8212; all very medieval.<\/p>\n<p>You can imagine the conflicts:<\/p>\n<p>Don Somebody y Somebody de Someplace, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Encomienda\"><em>encomendero<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;I need <em>los indios<\/em> to to work for me, to herd my livestock and build my new house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fray Somebody, Franciscan priest: &#8220;Oh, no, se\u00f1or, they must work building the new rooms on the church. Such labor helps in the conversion of their heathen souls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Los indios<\/em>, in Tiwa: &#8220;Do we ever get to hoe our own corn fields?&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Fray Somebody, playing his trump card: &#8220;And we have reports that you have permitted <em>los indios<\/em> to perform their devilish kachina dances. Could it be that you are sliding into heresy? We have prepared these documents for the holy Inquisition. . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plains_Apache\">Apaches<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comanche\">Comanches<\/a> of the Plains, having mastered the horse-riding lifestyle, started playing the game of &#8220;Let&#8217;s attack the settled agriculturalists, kill them, and take their stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish were spread too thin to fight them off, and arming the Pueblo Indians went against their plan of keeping the Indians subservient and helpless.<\/p>\n<p>Between raids and drought, things got so bad at the three Salinas pueblos that the Franciscans pulled the plug. In 1677, the priest at the church in the picture, Fray Diego de Parraga, locked the doors and rode off in a cart with all the altar goods and the church bell, accompanied by the remaining residents of the pueblo of Quarai (Cuarac). They went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isletapueblo.com\/\">Isleta<\/a>, where the people spoke the same language.<\/p>\n<p>And then three years later came a significant event in American Pagan history: the <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.tesco.net\/%7Erichard.alonzo\/Events\/gprevolt.htm\">Pueblo Revolt of 1680<\/a>, when all the missionized Indians of New Mexico and northern Arizona revolted simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The revolt&#8217;s cultural effects linger to this day, as David Roberts explains in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FA4V5A?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=chascli-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000FA4V5A\">The Pueblo Revolt : The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000FA4V5A\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important; display: none;\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ruined church, Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de La Purisima Concepci\u00f3n de Cuarac, stands at the edge of the Southern Plains, southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is one of three large mission churches built in the early 1600s by forced labor from the Indians who lived at the adjacent villages. The interior is about 100 feet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,32],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-new-mexico"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-gi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8775,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8775","url_meta":{"origin":1010,"position":0},"title":"At the Corner of Church &#038; State . . .","author":"Chas S. 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The Roman Catholic church pulled out one of the big guns: Exorcismo Magno \u2014 it takes a team of exorcists. Can a country with deep Christian roots like Mexico find itself at the mercy of demons? Some in the Church fear so.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Catholicism\"","block_context":{"text":"Catholicism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=catholicism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8780,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8780","url_meta":{"origin":1010,"position":3},"title":"When Pagans Fought Back and Won (Sort of)","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's Pagans, particularly those who inspired by an ancient polytheistic tradition, often wonder why their Pagan ancestors gave up their beliefs. It's a complicated story. Some, like the Saxons conquered by Charlemagne, were in a convert-or-die situation, and thousands died. Sometimes, as in the Roman West, you get the feeling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Arizona\"","block_context":{"text":"Arizona","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=arizona"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/greatpueblorevolt.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":968,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=968","url_meta":{"origin":1010,"position":4},"title":"El Ni\u00f1o Fidencio","author":"Chas S. 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