Pima Revolt (1751)

Treaties allowing the Spanish to mine and herd on Native lands led to an influx of new settlers; by 1760, Hispanos had become a substantial presence in the present-day American Southwest.

However, the colonial province of Sonora was characterized by a larger native population, and more frequent conflict between them and the Spaniards.

[2][3] Over the next day, uprisings followed in Caborca, Pitiquito, Oquitoa, Atil, Tubutama, Sonoyta, Busani, Agua Caliente, Baboquivari, Arivaca, and Tubac; more than a hundred settlers were killed.

[3] Oacpicagigua surrendered to Captain José Díaz del Carpio on March 18, 1752 after a negotiated peace.

[4] While intermittent rebellions continued most notably Jabanimo revolt in 1756, by the end of the eighteenth century, Sonoran natives had been largely missionized or Hispanicized, and the assimilated tribes of frontier New Spain were absorbed into the Spanish Empire.

A Spanish colonial map of Tubac from 1767, the site of the San Ignacio de Tubac Presidio, constructed as a result of conflicts with the Pima and other natives.