University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2019 Asserting Sovereignty: An Indigenous Archaeology Of The Pueblo Revolt Period At Tunyo, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico Joseph R. Aguilar University of Pennsylvania,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations Part of the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons Recommended Citation Aguilar, Joseph R., "Asserting Sovereignty: An Indigenous Archaeology Of The Pueblo Revolt Period At Tunyo, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico" (2019). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 3465. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3465 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3465 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Asserting Sovereignty: An Indigenous Archaeology Of The Pueblo Revolt Period At Tunyo, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico Abstract This dissertation presents the results of investigations into the archaeological, textual, and other evidence of the Pueblo Revolt period (A.D. 1680-1696), with a close focus on the events of the Spanish reconquest (1692-1696) at, Tunyo, Powhogeh Owingeh (San Ildefonso Pueblo), New Mexico. Guided by the tenets of traditional Pueblo values and Indigenous archaeology, this research examines the character and expressions of the Tewa Pueblos’ assertion of sovereignty in the face of Spanish settler colonial authority. The overarching goal of this research is to present an indigenized history of events that occurred at Tunyo and in the surrounding Tewa landscape during the height of the Spanish reconquest in 1694. Adopting a place-based approach that emphasizes the ontological interdependence of time, space, and history, this research merges Pueblo oral histories, Spanish documentary accounts, ethnohistorical studies, and archaeological data.