The Acoma Massacre
An Attempt at Redemption Long Overdue
The Acoma Massacre seems to be having great effects long after the dates of its events. In the document “The Mystery of the Sawed-Off Foot,” an incident took place on one January evening in 1998 at New Mexico’s Juan de Onate Monument Visitor’s Center where unknown individuals vandalized the statue of Juan de Onate by cutting off its right foot. The individuals opposed to the statue viewed the actions of the vandals as justification towards Onate’s involvement in the Acoma Massacre where his soldiers destroyed an entire village of Pueblo men, women, and children, enslaved the remaining several hundred villagers, while cutting off the right foot of men twenty-five and older; thus explaining the vandals
The Acoma Massacre seems to be having great effects long after the dates of its events. In the document “The Mystery of the Sawed-Off Foot,” an incident took place on one January evening in 1998 at New Mexico’s Juan de Onate Monument Visitor’s Center where unknown individuals vandalized the statue of Juan de Onate by cutting off its right foot. The individuals opposed to the statue viewed the actions of the vandals as justification towards Onate’s involvement in the Acoma Massacre where his soldiers destroyed an entire village of Pueblo men, women, and children, enslaved the remaining several hundred villagers, while cutting off the right foot of men twenty-five and older; thus explaining the vandals