Luis Oacpicagigua

Luis Oacpicagigua (O'odham: Brain Splicer^[1]) or Luis of Sáric (died 1755) was a Pima (Akimel O'odham) leader in the Spanish province of Sáric, now the far north of the Mexican state of Sonora.

Biography

Oacpicagigua commanded a force of hundreds of O'odham warriors, which he led on a number of campaigns against the Apache. In 1750, Oacpicagigua and his company assisted Diego Ortiz Parrilla in capturing Tiburón Island from the native Seri people. Afterwards, Parrilla appointed Oacpicagigua provincial governor of the O'odham. The local Jesuit missionaries resented this, considering the appointment of native officials their own prerogative.^[2]

In 1751, Oacpicagigua led the Pima Revolt against the Spanish.^[3] The revolt failed in 1752, Oacpicagigua and his lieutenant Luis of Pitic were summoned for questioning and subsequently arrested, and Oacpicagigua died in Horcasitas jail in 1755.^[4]

References

1. Karl Jacoby (24 November 2009). Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History. Penguin Group US. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-1-101-15951-4.
2. Sheridan, Thomas E. (26 May 2016). Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O’odham. University of Arizona Press. pp. 46–50. ISBN 978-0-8165-3441-8.
3. Steven Laurence Danver (2011). Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations, and Rebellions in American History: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 104–. ISBN 978-1-59884-221-0.
4. Roberto Mario Salmón (1991). Indian Revolts in Northern New Spain: A Synthesis of Resistance, 1680-1786. University Press of America. pp. 77–. ISBN 978-0-8191-7983-8.