In the video “Eric Foner on the Pueblo Revolt” Eric Foner talks about Pope´ being the main religious leader to Indians in the Pueblo Revolt. This Revolt took place in the 1680’s in New Mexico. In 1598, Juan de Onate occupied the territories of northern New Mexico. The Spanish colonists arrived in New Mexico without sufficient supplies and turned to local Indian natives to obtain by threat food and essentials. The Pueblo Indians refused to give the Spanish colonists their food so they were an instant enemy to the Spanish colonists. The Spanish responded in many aggressive ways including burning down Pueblos. The rise of Christianity among the Spanish drove traditional pueblo Indian religion to a stand still. Spanish missionaries had been working towards exterminating the traditional Indian religion; the Spanish colonists wanted all of the Indians to convert to Roman Catholicism. The Spanish colonists did many things to try and reach this goal, such as breaking up places of worship and religious sights. The Spanish colonists even went as far as killing around 800 Indians and enslaving just as many, if not more. There were also differences in the economic practices of the Spanish colonists. During these years before the revolt, Pueblo Indians suffered lack of water, starvation, and death, all of these factors contributing to a far-reaching decrease in the Pueblo Indian population. Open resistance to the Spanish colonists demands resulted in ruthless consequences such as amputation of limbs and execution. As a result from these tragedies, over the course of about 80 years, the Pueblo Indian population went from about 130,000 to a depressing 17,000. Pope moved to Taos Pueblo and spent many years trying to seek support from the tribes. Pope´ eventually convinced all of the Pueblo Indian villages to unite and start a revolt against the Spanish. Planning took place without a sound during the summer of 1680 in more than 70 communities, from Santa Fe to the Hopi pueblos almost 300 miles away. On August 10, 1680, about 2,500 of the Pueblo Indians raided the Spanish colonists center of operations at Santa Fe, and they didn’t stop until the whole institution was completely burned down to the ground. By the end of the raid, the Pueblo Indians had slaughtered more than 400 Spanish colonists and forced the rest of the Spanish back to El Paso. Eric Foner states, “It is in some ways, the most successful colonial rebellion in the colonial era.” This is because the Pueblo Indians managed to extinguish all of the Spanish colonists; it was the only revolt to essentially drive the Spanish out of New Mexico. For about twelve years there was no Spanish colonial ruling in New Mexico. In the 1690’s the Spanish colonists came back and again conquered New Mexico.