Indigenous rebellions against the Spanish Empire

indigenous Aymara leader of a major insurrection in colonial-era Upper Peru

war between Spaniards and Mapuche people in Chile

Bolivian revolutionary

1680 Indigenous Pueblo uprising against Spanish colonizers

thumb|right|300px|Statue of Enriquillo in Independencia province, Dominican Republic Enrique (1498–1535), best known as Enriquillo, was a Taíno cacique who rebelled against the Spaniards between 1519 and 1533. Enriquillo's rebellion is the best known rebellion of the early Caribbean period. He was born on the shores of Lake Jaragua (today Lake Enriquillo) and was part of the royal family of Jaragua. Enriquillo's aunt Anacaona was Queen of Jaragua, and his father Magiocatex was the crown prince. He is considered a hero in the modern day Dominican Republic for his resistance in favor of the indi

Indigenous leader in 18th century Bolivia

1540–1542 war

uprising of native and mestizo peasants against the Bourbon reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru

armed conflicts between indigenous peoples and people of the Vice royalty of New Spain in Mexico, between 1519 and 1933

Mexican princess

thumb|220px|Memorial Monument to Gaitana in Neiva, Colombia

Toypurina (1760–1799) was a Kizh medicine woman from the Jachivit village. She is notable for her opposition to the colonial rule by Spanish missionaries in California, and for her part in the planned 1785 rebellion against the Mission San Gabriel. She recruited six of the eight villages whose men participated in the attack.

Tamblot ( 1621–1622) was the name given to a babaylan (a Visayan term for mediums and religious leaders in the Philippines' pre-colonial and early colonial periods) who incited a series of uprisings against Spanish colonial rule in the island of Bohol. Indigenous religions and beliefs played a huge part behind the revolts' inception as Roman Catholicism spread throughout the Philippine archipelago, a process which many of its inhabitants rejected in favor of their local customs. A few uprisings in the early colonial era such as this one were thus motivated in part by resistance against the pre

Chilean rebel