However, two sources[1] indicate that Otermín is the standard version and that it's from Guipúzcoan Basque oteme, in Spanish ‘árgoma’ ( ‘furze, broom’), the genera Ulex and Genista, spiny yellow-flowered evergreen leguminous shrubs.

[2][4][3] When the news about the arrest of the messengers was spread among the Pueblo, Popé decided to execute the plan of vengeance immediately.

[3] In the Pueblo Revolt, Popé's forces besieged Santa Fe, surrounding the city[2][4] and cutting off its water supply.

[2] Still, on that day, Otermín, being barricaded in the Palace of the Governors[5] and believing that in northern New Mexico already all settlers had been killed by the Puebloans and he did not feel safe in the Isleta (although in reality the settlers of Santa Fe were alive and continued to resist the attacks of Puebloans),[4] called for a general retreat.

It was also decided to delay the re-conquest New Mexico, until the colonists do get the help of the viceroy and the advance of the group of people who were with Otermín at the Guadalupe mission, because of the dangers that had in El Paso del Norte.

[5] On September 16 came a group Queres warriors from Cochití and Santo Domingo led by mestizo Alonso de Catiti, whose brother was with the defenders of the governor's house in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

They succeeded it and in February, Otermín and his army went to El Paso (in the present Texas),[4] along to many of the inhabitants of Isleta, while the others settlers fled to south and interior of Parral, Chihuahua and west into Sonora.

After the victory of Otermín, he sent to Juan Domínguez de Mendoza and a company of Hispanic men and Pueblo allies to north, to the Tiwa and Keres lands of Albuquerque and Bernalillo.

There Mendoza spoke with Pueblo leaders who told him that his people had the intention of attacking and killing the settlers to return to the region.

Antonio Otermín married Ana María Ladrón de Guevara on 24 May 1692 in Asunción, Mexico,[8] one of the survivors of the Pueblo Indian Revolt.