Nambé Pueblo
1120 Nambe, which means "People of the Round Earth", is the traditional name for Nambe Pueblo.
Taos Pueblo
The Church of San Geronimo that is currently standing in the Pueblo Plaza is the third manifestation of the original church which was completed in 1619. It was then rebuilt following its destruction first during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and second during the war with Mexico in…
Isleta Pueblo
Isleta Pueblo is located 13 miles south of Albuquerque and has an area of 211,002 acres and a population of over 3,000. The reservation includes the Manzano Mountains and the Rio Grande Valley. Isleta means “Little Island” in Spanish while the pueblo’s traditional Tiwa name is “Tue-I.”…
Santa Clara Pueblo
It is situated 24 miles north of Santa Fe. Kha'p'oo Owinge (Valley of the Wild Roses) is the traditional name for Santa Clara Pueblo. It is situated 24 miles north of Santa Fe. The large Santa Clara Pueblo reservation is home to the historic cliff dwellings of Puye,…
Stephen Watts Kearny
1794 by William H. Wroth General Stephen Watts Kearny led the United States army forces in the occupation of New Mexico in August 1846. General Kearny was born in 1794 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended public schools in Newark and enrolled in Columbia College in New York City…
Charles Bent, Biographical Sketch
1799 by William H. Wroth Charles Bent was the first civil governor under American rule in the territory of New Mexico. Bent was born in Charleston, Brooke County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1799 and moved with his family to St. Louis, Missouri in 1806. Although Bent and his…
Charles Bent
1846 Charles Bent was the first civil governor under American rule in the territory of New Mexico. Reproducing prohibited without express permission from the State Records Center and Archives. Courtesy of the State Records Center and Archives. 1
Maxwell Land Grant
by William H. Wroth In January 1841, Guadalupe Miranda of Santa Fe and Charles Beaubien of Taos petitioned Governor Manuel Armijo for possession of a large tract of land east of Taos along the Cimarron and Canadian Rivers, extending westward to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Beaubien, a French…
Pojoaque Pueblo
Pojoaque Pueblo Po-suwae-ge, "water drinking or gathering place" is the traditional Tewa name for Pojoaque Pueblo. Pojaque Pueblo was first inhabited as early as 500 AD, but its population reached its peak in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. With the arrival of the Spanish,…
1970 Taos Blue Lake Returned to Pueblo
The Final Battle: How the Taos Pueblo Indians Won Back Their Blue Lake Shrine by Diana Rico The 1960s were a time of intense political activism among U.S. minorities. Black Power, La Raza, the American Indian Movement, women’s rights, gay rights, farm workers’ rights, the Free Speech movement —…
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