The Caste War of YucatánThis is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican historythe revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatn against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847. Within a year, the Maya rebels had almost succeeded in driving their oppressors from the peninsula; by 1855, when the major battles ended, the war had killed or put to flight almost half of the population of Yucatn. A new religion built around a Speaking Cross