ion and the various attempts
to reconquer the territory, including the successful one in 1692 by
Diego de Vargas. Sigueenza is brief, but reasonably accurate. Part of the
documents concerning the Indian uprising were published in the
nineteenth century in the Third Series of the _Coleccion de Documentos
para la Historia de Mexico_, but no complete print of the voluminous
papers concerning those events has yet appeared, and indeed the most
important documents still remain in manuscript. In 1701 Villagutierre y
Sotomayor published his voluminous _Historia de la Conquistay
Reducciones de los Itzaes y Lacandones en la America Septentrional_, in
which appears a brief description of the Indian uprising in New Mexico.
His data are of course gathered at second hand, although from
contemporary sources.

I know of no other publications concerning the Indian uprising, so often
mentioned, between the close of the seventeenth century and the
beginning of the eighteenth. The manuscript material, which has been
much scattered, may be divided locally into three groups. The one,
originally at Santa Fe, New Mexico, is now in the Library of Congress at
Washington; it had been much neglected, hence for the greater part
seriously reduced, in former times, but it still contains most valuable
information on the condition of the Rio Grande Pueblos immediately after
the uprising and during the time the Pueblos were left to themselves,
attempting to return to their primitive condition. This information,
embodied in interrogatories of Indians subsequent to 1680, I made the
subject of a closing chapter to my _Documentary History of the Zuni
Tribe_, but it was withheld from publication for some cause unknown to
me. The military reports on the expeditions of Diego de Vargas and the
final reconquest of New Mexico are reduced to disconnected but still
bulky fragments. Almost unique of their kind are the so-called "Pueblo
grants" emanating from Governor Domingo Gironza Petros de Cruzate in
1688. The term "grant" is a misnomer, since it refers in fact to a
limitation to the innate tendency of the Indians to arbitrarily expand
their tribal range. These documents have become the legal basis of
landholding by the Pueblos and the first step toward eventual single
tenure.

The second group of manuscripts, in the national archives in the City of
Mexico, is more complete than the first. It contains information on the
beginnings of the rebellion and on later