Under the leadership of Pope’, Pueblo resistance fighters aim to drive out Spanish colonizers. Runners are sent to more than 90 villages with messages for the time and place of the coordinated rebellion. The revolt begins on August 10, 1680 at Taos pueblo. Twenty-one priests and 400 Spanish are killed; Spanish missionaries are thrown off cliffs. Crosses and rosaries are burned, and the Spanish language outlawed to eliminate all traces of European influence (Nies, 1996). They slaughter European livestock, cut down fruit trees, and bathe in rivers to wash away the effects of Christian baptism. (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=526)