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Santa Fe de Nuevo México was a province of the Spanish Empire and New Spain,and later a territory of independent Mexico. The first capital was San Juan de los Caballeros from 1598 until 1610,and from 1610 onward the capital was La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís.
Santo Domingo Pueblo,also known Kewa Pueblo is a federally recognized tribe of Native American Pueblo people in northern New Mexico. A population of 2,456 live in structures some of which date from circa 1700;in Sandoval County described by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place.
Santa Cruz,historically known as Santa Cruz de la Cañada,is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County,New Mexico,United States. It is part of the Santa Fe,New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 423 at the 2000 census.
Juan de Oñate y Salazar was a Spanish conquistador from New Spain,explorer,and viceroy of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain. He led early Spanish expeditions to the Great Plains and Lower Colorado River Valley,encountering numerous indigenous tribes in their homelands there. Oñate founded settlements in the province,now in the Southwestern United States.
Pueblo refers to the settlements and to the Native American tribes of the Pueblo peoples in the Southwestern United States,currently in New Mexico,Arizona,and Texas. The permanent communities,including some of the oldest continually occupied settlements in the United States,are called pueblos (lowercased).
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680,also known as Popé's Rebellion or Po'pay's Rebellion,was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México,larger than present-day New Mexico. Incidents of brutality and cruelty,coupled with persistent Spanish policies such as those that occurred in 1599 and resulted in The Ácoma Massacre,stoked animosity,gave rise to the eventual Revolt of 1680. The persecution and mistreatment of Pueblo people who adhered to traditional religious practices was the most despised of these. Scholars consider it the first Native American religious traditionalist revitalization movement. The Spaniards were resolved to abolish "pagan" forms of worship and replace them with Christianity. The Pueblo Revolt killed 400 Spaniards and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province. The Spaniards returned to New Mexico twelve years later.
The Tewa are a linguistic group of Pueblo Native Americans who speak the Tewa language and share the Pueblo culture. Their homelands are on or near the Rio Grande in New Mexico north of Santa Fe. They comprise the following communities:
The Spanish Missions in New Mexico were a series of religious outposts in the Province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México —present day New Mexico. They were established by Franciscan friars under charter from the monarchs of the Spanish Empire and the government of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in a policy called Reductions to facilitate the conversion of Native Americans into Christianity.
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Zía was a Spanish Mission to the Zia Indians,established around 1610 by Franciscan missionaries accompanying Juan de Oñate. The church sustained severe damage in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680;after the reconquest of the territory by Diego de Vargas in 1692,the Franciscans returned and performed a mass baptism of the Zia. Reconstruction of the church began in 1706 under the supervision of Fray Juan Alvarez,and was completed in 1750 under Fray Manuel Bermejo.
Ohkay Owingeh,known by its Spanish name as San Juan Pueblo from 1589 to 2005,is a pueblo in Rio Arriba County,New Mexico. For statistical purposes,the United States Census Bureau has defined that community as a census-designated place (CDP). Ohkay Owingeh is also the federally recognized tribe of Pueblo people inhabiting the town.
Antonio de Otermín was the Spanish Governor of the northern New Spain province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México,today the U.S. states of New Mexico and Arizona,from 1678 to 1682. He was governor at the time of the Pueblo Revolt,during which the religious leader Popéled the Pueblo people in a military ouster of the Spanish colonists. Otermín had to cope with the revolt with help of the settlers and their descendants in New Mexico,fighting against the Pueblo in some military campaigns and establishing a refuge for the surviving settlers and loyal native Pueblo in the vicinity of the modern Ciudad Juárez,current Mexico.
The progenitors of the Baca family of New Mexico were Cristóbal Baca (Vaca) and his wife Ana Ortiz. Cristóbal was a military captain from Mexico City,who arrived in 1600 with his family to help reinforce the Spanish colonial Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. At the time,they had three grown daughters and a small son. The Bacas had another son while living in Nuevo México. the family then moved to Grants,New Mexico.
Pedro de Peralta was Governor of New Mexico between 1610 and 1613 at a time when it was a province of New Spain. He formally founded the city of Santa Fe,New Mexico in 1610. In August 1613 he was arrested and jailed for almost a year by the Franciscan friar Isidro Ordóñez. Later,he was vindicated by the Mexican Inquisition and held a number of other senior posts in the Spanish imperial administration.
Francisco Gómez is a Spanish name which may refer to:
Luis de Rosas was a soldier who served as the ninth Spanish Governor of New Mexico from 1637 until 1641,when he was then imprisoned and assassinated. During his administration,de Rosas clashed with the Franciscans,mainly because of his handling of the indigenous Americans,whom he forced to work for him or sold them as slaves. The Franciscans promoted a revolt of the citizens of New Mexico against him. De Rosas was imprisoned after an investigation relating to his position as governor. He was killed by soldiers while in prison.
Juan de Samaniego y Díez de Ulzurrun Xaca ("Jaca") y Roncal,better known just as Juan Samaniego y Jaca,was a prominent Spanish military officer who served as Governor of New Mexico between 1653 and 1656. He initiated several expeditions to liberate native people from Amerindians who attacked,kidnapped and took those native people as prisoners.
ToméDomínguez III de Mendoza was a Spanish soldier who served as acting Governor of New Mexico in 1664.
Juan Flores de Sierra y Valdés was a Spanish soldier who served as Governor of New Mexico in 1641. He was replaced at his death by Francisco Gomes.
The Church of San Juan Bautista is a Roman Catholic church and parish located in Ohkay Owingeh,New Mexico. The parish is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe. It consists of the parish church of San Juan Bautista,a freestanding chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes,and ten associated missions. The parish traces its origins to 1598,making it the oldest extant Native American congregation in the United States of America,as well as one of the oldest church congregations in the United States in general. The current church,the parish's fifth or sixth,was built in 1913 and is listed as a contributing property on the National Register of Historic Places.