![]() ![]() After three years in Santa Fe and one year in Taos, he arrived at the Isleta Pueblo in December 1891, where he would spend the next 34 years. On October 21, 1887, Father Anton Docher went to New Mexico, where he was ordered as a priest in the Cathedral of Santa Fé. When Governor Otermin found this out, he burned the pueblo and forced the remaining members to El Paso. Though they submitted to Governor Otermin, secretly, their allegiance was with the other Pueblo peoples. Others accompanied the Spanish to their retreat at El Paso del Norte (current day El Paso, Texas.) After the rebellion, the Isleta people returned to the pueblo, many with Hopi spouses. Though Isleta was spared the massacre at other pueblos due to its Spanish residents, many of its native members fled to Hopi settlements in Arizona. ![]() When the Pueblo Revolt began in 1680, the Pueblo was called home to about 2,000 people, including many Spaniards. ![]() The Spanish Mission of San Agustín de la Isleta was built in the Pueblo around 1629 or 1630 by the Spanish Franciscan friar Juan de Salas. Due to its location on a strip of land projecting from the Rio Grande, the conquering Spaniards gave the pueblo the name of Isleta, meaning “little island.”Īround 1629, refugees from outlying pueblos converged on the Isleta Pueblo, abandoning their homes due to savage Apache raids. Originally established about 1200 A.D., the Isleta Pueblo is home to the Tiwa tribe, descended from remote Shoshoncan stock, the first people to enter the Americas some 30,000 years ago. ![]()
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