“If you have this power, then blow me out into the air; my gods have more power than you have. My gods have put a heart into me to enter your home.

“I have come to kill you.”

So that was how they got all the evidence against the priest.

wanted all the young girls to be brought to him when they were about thirteen or fourteen years old. They had to live with the priest. He told the people they would become better women if they lived with him for about three years.

Then, the priest, thinking the man was away, would come to visit his wife,

He was not doing the people any good and he was always figuring what he could do to harm them.

Now during this time the men would go out pretending they were going on a hunting trip and they would go to some hiding place, to make their prayer offerings.

all the people in the village had to come there to worship, and those that did not come were punished severely

If any man gave out on the way he was simply left to die.

He did not like the Kachinas and he destroyed the altars and the customs. He called it idol worship and burned up all the ceremonial things in the plaza.

which means a grouchy person that will not do anything himself, like a child

told the people that they had much more power than all their chiefs and a whole lot more power than the witches. The people were very much afraid of them, particularly if they had much more power than the witches. They were so scared that they could do nothing but allow themselves to be made slaves.

The people of Shung-opovi were at first afraid of the priests but later they decided he was really the Bahana, the savior, and let him build a mission at Shung-opovi.

every place was pretty well settled down when the Spanish came.

I trusted in divine providence, for I left without a crust of bread or a grain of wheat or maize, and with no other provision

seeing that they were being set afire and that they would be burned to death,

they also were put to flight with little resistance.

some Indians who were in our service with their bows and arrows,

I determined to take the resolution of going out in the morning to fight with the enemy until dying or conquering.

Instantly all the said Indian rebels began a chant of victory and raised war whoops, burning all the houses of the villa, and they kept us in this position the entire night,

suffered greatly from thirst because of the scarcity of water.

but the height of the places in which they were, so favorable to them and on the contrary so unfavorable to us

There they took up their position, and this day passed without our having any further engagements or skirmishes than had already occurred,

there appeared on the road from Tesuque a band of the people whom they were awaiting,

Whereupon he went back, and his people received him with peals of bells and trumpets, giving loud shouts in sign of war.

He came back from thee after a short time, saying that his people asked that all classes of Indians who were in our power be given up to them,

he and the rest of his followers were Catholic Christians,

Thus if we wished to choose the white it must be upon our agreeing to leave the country, and if we chose the red, we must perish

I asked him how it was that he had gone crazy too-being an Indian who spoke our language, was so intelligent, and had lived all his life in the villa among the Spaniards, where I had placed such confidence in him-and was now coming as a leader of the Indian rebels.

I sent some soldiers to summon him and tell him on my behalf that he could come to see me in entire safety, so that I might ascertain from him the purpose for which they were coming.

we might endeavor to defend ourselves against the enemy’s invasions.

such untimely deaths

and that they [the governors] came to tell me of it and of how they were unwilling to participate in such wickedness and treason, saying that they now regarded the Spaniards as their brothers

The first messenger was killed and the others did not pass beyond Santo Domingo, because of their having encountered on the road the certain notice of the deaths of the religious who were in that convent, and of the alcalde mayor, some other guards, and six more Spaniards whom they captured on that road.

To this was added a certain degree of negligence by reason of the report of the uprising not having been given entire credence, as is apparent from the ease with which they captured and killed both those who were escorting some of the religious, as well as some citizens in their houses

part of the heathen enemy,

the Christian Indians

only Heaven can reward your reverence, though I do not doubt that his Majesty (may God keep him) will do so.