Sandia Pueblo

The Sandia 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 Sandia is the Spanish term for watermelon. Your own name is Nafiat and means Sandy place. The Pueblo is located in the southwestern United States on the Rio Grande in the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico.

History

Prehistoric time

As Sandia Sandia culture or epoch, the American archaeologist denote a particular cultural section in prehistoric America. The Sandia peoples being seen between the Clovis Indians who settled to about 11,000 years ago as the first large area North America, and the Folsom - Indians. Its main feature, the Sandia spearhead, is about 7.5 cm long and very short notched. About their actual age, there is a continual scientific dispute, the datings range from 25,000 years before our time to about 11,000 years before our time. Most scientists today are more likely to go out of the recent information.

Pueblo

The Pueblo of Sandia dates from around 1300 AD remains of the old, visited by Francisco de Coronado in 1540, the village can still be seen near the present church. In the early 17th century, the Mission San Francisco was built in the village by the Franciscans. It was destroyed during the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680. They built the present church in the early 1890s.

Fearing reprisals, the Spanish left their Sandia Pueblo to the rebellion and sought refuge among the Hopi. On the Second Mesa north of the pueblo Mishongnovi, they built their Pueblo Payupki, where they lived until 1742, when the Padres Delgado and Pino persuaded more than 500 of their relatives to return to New Mexico. They built their village on the site of the old new to, which had been destroyed by Governor Antonio de Otermin in the attempt to recapture 1681. The new Pueblo was named Nuestra Senora de los Dolores and San Antonio de Sandia; the Hopi called it Payupki.

Life and culture

Despite its proximity to Albuquerque, little is known about the Sandia Pueblo and there is some mystery about his ceremonial life. The secular officials of the pueblo, usually capable young men, are appointed by the caciques, which represents the head of a priestly hierarchy.

Earning opportunities in nearby towns and farm work form the economic base of the village. In Pueblo no crafts are produced at the time. Sandias future as an independent Indian village is in danger, because it is in the range of ever-expanding city of Albuquerque. The pressure for change of location will grow accordingly as the geographic isolation of the pueblos waning. In 2000 there were 389, of which 140 are permanent residents in the approximately 93 square kilometers ( 22,883 acres) large reserve.