It’s late summer of the Castilian Year 1680: A firelight flickers in a crowded kiva as a group of people whisper, heads together. Po’pay has called on delegates from all the surviving pueblos to convene in Taos for a secret meeting, and he tells them the time is ripe for the uprising. Castilian invaders have ravaged their homelands for decades, destroyed and stolen their crops, and decimated their population. If the pueblos are to survive and keep their traditions alive, Po’pay says, the time for action is now, before their way of life is extinguished and lost forever.