Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico

The Picuris are a Native American people of the North American Southwest and among the Pueblo Indians. They speak Tiwa, a language from the Kiowa - Tanoan language family. The name Picuris is a Spanish alienation called Pekuria from the Keres language. Your own name is Piwwetha and does pass in the mountains. The Pueblo is located in the southwestern United States on a tributary of the Rio Grande, about 50 km northeast of Santa Fe in New Mexico.

History

The Picuris and Taos are descended from the same ancestors, who settled around 900 AD about in today's residential area. Sometime in the 12th century, told this people, and formed two separate groups. How the Taos had the Picuris repeated contacts with the Plain tribes, especially with the Jicarilla Apaches, and it sometimes came to mixed marriages.

The original Pueblo, dug partially today, lies on the northern edge of the village today. It dates from the year 1250 AD and was first visited in the early 1540s by the Spanish. They called it San Lorenzo and built there in 1621 a mission.

Luis Tupato, one of the leaders of the Pueblo Rebellion, was the governor of Pecuris. The Pueblo had at that time a population of 3000 inhabitants and played an important role in the rebellion because he could create a powerful force of warriors for the fight against the Spaniards.

1692, they were subjected again to the Spanish authority, but it came within the next five years to three other revolts. After the last uprising in 1696 the Pecuris left their Pueblo to seek refuge in the settlement of the Jicarilla Apaches El Cuartelejo in western Kansas. In 1706 they returned, decimated by disease and war in their Pueblo back. The present church was built after the reconstruction of the village in 1770.

Culture

Currently, Picuris is in a state of decay. The lack of local income opportunities is forcing residents with technical skills or training to leave the Pueblo, and so they escape the village the chance to develop into an independent municipality. The living in the village of Picuris supplement their wages by seasonal crops, livestock and craft work. The micaceous clay containing pottery of the Picuris were traded for hundreds of years even to remote areas. Half a dozen women produce yet these are not painted cooking vessels, which are very popular with Indians and Americans. They are among the few pieces of pueblo pottery, serving more practical purposes. In 2000 there were 254, of which 85 are permanent, residents in the approximately 60 -acre reserve.