Jacinto Canek
Maya · mortal · colonial · Recorded classification
He took the name of the last independent Maya king, which tells you what the rising was for: not a tax revolt but a restoration, sixty-four years after Nojpetén fell, in a province where the Books of Chilam Balam were still being copied and still said the foreigners would go. Three weeks from the first shot to the plaza at Mérida. He is the bridge between the Classic kings at the front of this batch and the Caste War eighty years later, and the registry had neither end.
Domains
- rebellion
- resistance
Sources
- Jacinto Canek, born Jacinto Uc de los Santos about 1731, raised the Maya revolt at Cisteil in November 1761, faced five hundred Spanish soldiers with fifteen hundred Maya in two entrenched lines on 26 November, and was executed at Mérida on 14 December 1761.: Reference treatments of Jacinto Canek and the Cisteil uprising. (secondary)