Tiguex War

Tiguex War
	Part of Expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
	; Coronado's march - Colorado by Frederic Remington shows the march of Coronado east from Tiguex Province to the Great Plains
Date	December 1540 – March 1541 (4 months)
Location	Tiguex Province, Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Bernalillo, NM)35°18′34″N 106°33′07″W / 35.309444°N 106.551944°W
Result	Spanish victory
Belligerents
12 Southern Tiwa Puebloans	Expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Commanders and leaders
Xauían †	Francisco Vázquez de Coronado; García López de Cárdenas
Strength
50 or so men per village	350 Spanish men-at-arms 2,000 Mexican Indian allies 350 servants and followers
Casualties and losses
Hundreds killed, executed, or wounded	Small number of Spanish and Mexican fighters killed Over 100 wounded
	Tiwan women and children who survived were enslaved by the expedition

The Tiguex War (Tee-wesh) was the first named war between Europeans and Native Americans in what is now part of the United States. The war took place in New Spain, during the colonization of Nuevo México.^[1] It was fought in the winter of 1540–41 by the expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado against the twelve or thirteen Pueblos or settlements of what would become the Tiguex Province of Nuevo México. These villages were along both sides of the Rio Grande, north and south of present-day Bernalillo, New Mexico.^[1] The Tiguex War led to significant casualties on both sides and damage to all Pueblos, and increased tensions within Spanish-Native relations.^[2]^[3]

^ ^a ^b Bullis, Don (February 17, 2022). "Ellos Pasaron por Aqui: 1st war between Native Americans, Europeans took place near RR". Rio Rancho Observer. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
^ Hofman, Corinne; Keehnen, Floris (2019-04-09). Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas: Archaeological Case Studies. BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004273689_015. ISBN 978-90-04-39245-8.
^ Aguilar, Joseph; Arterberry, Jimmy; Atherton, Heather; Brenneman, Dale S.; Darling, J. Andrew; Douglass, John G.; Douglass, John G.; Eiselt, B. Sunday; Fowles, Severin, eds. (2017). New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest. Denver, CO: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 978-1-60732-574-1.

[Bullis_2022-1] Bullis, Don (February 17, 2022). "Ellos Pasaron por Aqui: 1st war between Native Americans, Europeans took place near RR". Rio Rancho Observer. Retrieved June 30, 2022.

[2] Hofman, Corinne; Keehnen, Floris (2019-04-09). Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas: Archaeological Case Studies. BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004273689_015. ISBN 978-90-04-39245-8.

[:0-3] Aguilar, Joseph; Arterberry, Jimmy; Atherton, Heather; Brenneman, Dale S.; Darling, J. Andrew; Douglass, John G.; Douglass, John G.; Eiselt, B. Sunday; Fowles, Severin, eds. (2017). New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest. Denver, CO: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 978-1-60732-574-1.

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