At the start of the seventeenth century, the first church had already been established in New Mexico. Ohkay Owingeh was the pre-conquest name of the area where the first church was established. The church was named after conquistador Juan de Onate’s patron saint, John the Baptist . After the establishment of the church, the vacuum of Spanish leadership in New Mexico begun—but a vacuum of authority comes with its imperfections. There were many instances where there was divisions between the Spanish levels of authority; the governors, settlers, and friars had conflicts of both interest and desire. The era of Pueblo Revolt was a time of conquest, resistance, and a time in which the natives were forced to survive through the Spanish burdens that
