Framedlight

While we were in the Pueblo we looked at the Catholic Church that was used by the puebloans. We didn't know that it was a new structure built to replace an older building the remains of which were still present in the grave yard. In August 1846 at the end of the American Mexican war the state of New Mexico was taken out of Mexican hands and ceded to the US. The Mexicans living in New Mexico were justifiably worried that the land granted to them by the Mexican government would now be forfeit.The conquering troops had not treated the local inhabitants kindly and there was a lot of resentment also building up in the local Native Americans, including the puebloans of New Mexico. This culminated in January 1847 when a revolt was staged by the Taos Mexicans and the people of the Taos Pueblo. The local governor Charles Bent was killed and scalped in front of his family and the sheriff and other members of the American administration were also killed. The next  day a mill and distillery we...