The Anasazi culture of prehistoric American Indians developed and flourished, ca. 800–1100, in the Southwest near the present-day borders of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. Pueblo tribes later developed from the Anasazi.
Popé was a seventeenth-century Pueblo religious leader who led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful American Indian uprising ever. In 1680, Popé led the Pueblo in attacking the Spanish. Though the revolt was successful in pushing the Spanish out of New Mexico, the region was reconquered again by Spain, soon after Popé’s death, in 1692.