{"id":9896,"date":"2018-10-14T15:04:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T21:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9896"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T22:41:39","slug":"the-pueblo-revolt-and-pagan-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9896","title":{"rendered":"The Pueblo Revolt and Pagan History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Commemorative poster by Kiowa artist Parker Boyiddle Jr<\/a>. (1947\u20132007).<\/p><\/div>\n

Some time in the early 1980s, M. and I were traveling through northern Arizona on one of our VW Bug-and-cheap tent tours, when we stopped for lunch at the Hopi Cultural Center<\/a>, a\/k\/a The Cafe at the Center of the Universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We could not afford much at the gift shop<\/a>, but I bought this poster, which commemorates a signal event in the Pagan history of North America \u2014 the time in August 1680 when the different Pueblo tribes, separated by language and geography,((It is at least 350 road miles from Ohkay Owingeh<\/a> (San Juan Pueblo, where the revolt was planned) to the Hopi villages. Teenage boys ran the distance\u2014an event recreated in 1980<\/a>.)) rose up simultaneously, killing Christian priests, destroying churches, and chasing the Spanish settlers back to what is today Mexico.((The Spanish did, however, come back in the Reconquista<\/em> of 1692<\/a>. It is often called the “bloodless” reconquest \u2014 as in this somewhat-biased link \u2014 but it was not. Calling it the ‘bloodless reconquest” perpetuates the myth that the simple natives welcomed the Catholic priests.))<\/p>\n

The poster has hung by my desk in three or four different houses.<\/p>\n

<\/a>For a good, sensitive history of the revolt, I recommend David Roberts’ The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion that Drove the Spaniards out of the Southwest<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Two things recently\u00a0 brought the Pueblo Revolt back to my mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For one, last month American blogger<\/strong> Galina Kraskova linked<\/a> to a Hindu blog, which itself was about “How Japan Dealt with the Christian Threat<\/a>.” (This followed an earlier post by the same blogger on “Japan’s Defeat of Christianity and Lessons for Hindus<\/a>.”) In short, during the early 17th century the Japanese shoguns all but eliminated the Catholic Christianity that had been spread by (mainly) Portuguese missionaries among the population. Their tactics included threats, torture, imprisonment, and a sort of\u00a0 Buddhist Inquisition.((For the movie version, see Silence, <\/em>2016<\/a>, directed by Martin Scorsese.)) Now the Japanese approach is endorsed by some Hindus who advocate restricting or eliminating Christian missionary activity in India.<\/p>\n

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Pottery jar by Virgil Ortiz<\/a> from “Revolt 1680\/2180.”<\/p><\/div>\n

But back to the Pueblo Revolt<\/strong>, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center has a show up by Virgil Ortiz, an artist from Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, titled “Revolt 1680\/2180.”<\/a> It will be on display through the first week of January 2016, and I must <\/em>see it.<\/p>\n

Ortiz\u2019s <\/em>Revolt\u00a0storyline transports the viewer back more than 300 years to the historical events of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, and then hurtles forward through time to the year of 2180 \u2013 introducing a cast of characters along the way. Though the narrative will be largely based on the Revolt 1680\/2180 storyline that the artist has been developing for some time, Revolution will focus on the Aeronauts and other main Revolt characters: Po\u2019Pay, Translator and the Spirit World Army, Tahu and her army of Blind Archers, Runners, and Gliders. Set in the future of 2180, the pueblos are in chaos, the invasion of Native land continues, the scourge of war rages everywhere. The Aeronauts summon their fleet and prepare for extreme warfare against the invading Castilian forces. Desperately, the Aeronauts search for any remaining clay artifacts from the battlefields. They know that challenges and persecution will continue, so it is imperative to preserve and protect their clay, culture, language, and traditions from extinction.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you can be in Colorado Springs over the next three months, the museum is open Tuesday-Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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