. Bulletin. Ethnology. BCLL. 30] TAOS 689 could lay hands, and then proceeded to Santa Fe, where they formed part of the 3,000 Pueblos wholaid siege to that town for 5 days, when Gov. Otermin succeeded in beating them off and in beginning his retreat to El Paso. All the Pueblos re- mained independent of the Spaniards until 1692, when Vargas reconquered the province. On his visiting Taos in Octo- ber the Indians ran away, but were in- duced to return, ))rofessing friendship. After several conflicts with the Tevva in the following year (1693), Vargas again visited Taos on July 3, finding it aban
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BCLL. 30] TAOS 689 could lay hands, and then proceeded to Santa Fe, where they formed part of the 3,000 Pueblos wholaid siege to that town for 5 days, when Gov. Otermin succeeded in beating them off and in beginning his retreat to El Paso. All the Pueblos re- mained independent of the Spaniards until 1692, when Vargas reconquered the province. On his visiting Taos in Octo- ber the Indians ran away, but were in- duced to return, ))rofessing friendship. After several conflicts with the Tevva in the following year (1693), Vargas again visited Taos on July 3, finding it aban- doned, the Indians having taken refuge in a near-l)y canyon, after placing crosses on their property to command for it re- spect from tiie Spaniards. Attempts to negotiate with the natives proving a fail- ure, Vargas sacked their village, taking much corn. Before the close of 1694 revolt of 1680 the population of Taos was about 2,000. Owing to its situation on the northern frontier, Taos became an important trad- ing rendezvous for the surrounding tribes, and its people also experienced several disastrous conflicts with the Ute, and in 1766 with the Comanche. To these hos- tilities was doubtless partly due the reduc- tion of the once conijiaratively large pop- ulation to 515 in 1910. See Pueblos. In 1847 occurred what is known as the Taos rebellion. Instigated by Mexi- cans, whose ill feeling for the Americans had been aroused by the Mexican war, the Taos warriors, on Jan. 17, attacked and cruelly killed Gov. Charles Bent and other residents of the near-by Mexican settlement of Fernandez de Tads, and, joined by Mexicans, murdered all but one of nine Americans at Turley's mill, 12. PUEBLO OF TAOS peace again reigned, niany of the pueblos were rebuilt, and new missionaries as- signed. But it was not long ere the Pueblos again became restless; on June 4, 1696, another uprising of the northern pueblos, including Taos, took place, in which 5 missionaries and 21 other Span- iards w
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