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  • Red Power on the Rio Grande
  • Princess Redwing
Red Power on the Rio Grande The Native American Revolution of 1680, by Franklin Folsom. 144 pp. (Follett Publishing Company, Chicago. $5.95).

Native Americans living on the land and off the land, for countless generations, can not easily adjust to foreign cultures and slavery without a great deal of discomfort.

The Pueblo people were a peace loving, religious people, and by no means ignorant. [End Page 230] If the Spaniards had settled near them and not disturbed their way of life, the Pueblos would never have rebelled.

The Spaniards were cruel, greedy, and unjust in their treatment of a people they found living in the valley of the Rio Grande. They enslaved and killed unnecessarily the Pueblos, who took all they could stand of this unjust treatment, then planned carefully their revolt. And they succeeded in their attempt to free themselves and live again as they chose. The thesis of the book is that this is a big country and all people who want to live peacefully with their neighbors, with nature and with their God should be left to work out their own destiny. Disturbing them causes unhappiness on both sides, for you cannot keep someone in a ditch without staying in the ditch yourself to keep him there, either in 1680 or in 1980.

Princess Redwing
Wampanoag Nation
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